COME FROM AWAY Previews — Page 10

"The audience (which was clearly highly papered)"

Please explain your knowledge of this as it has appeared to be selling well.

I understand it didn't float your boat but to accuse the FofH of using seat fillers is not acceptable unless you know FOR certain ( and i don't mean a few comps- I mean your phrase" highly papered"

Not only roles and accents, but each movement of a chair or prop is unique for each character so that the object will be ready at some future point, sometimes for a different actor's use. It all happens in a way that appears effortless, but there are so many moving parts they each have to keep track of, it's crazy.

BINGO. Christopher Ashley deserves the Tony just for this!

Every show has a significant amount of comps during previews. COME FROM AWAY also had the $38 rush ticket offer for four performances & 40% off most seats for previews. Great word-of-mouth combined with what should be excellent reviews should up their average ticket price. Already looked at sales for next week and most shows look close to sold out.

If you're looking for a character study, sure, I get the criticism. But Come From Away is not really a character study and it's not trying to be one. The authors took on the audacious task of portraying a story with, realistically, over 7000 characters. They give us a handful of focal characters to grasp on to, but this is about thousands of people's journeys, not just one or two. This is about an incident, a monumental moment in time. What did you expect?

I do think that's a very noble position for you to hold christinelavin, and shows a lot of respect for the creative team and creative process. I suppose I don't mind though if people criticise preview shows because they are still charging a lot of money and let's face it, bar a few shows (and I can't think of any to mind right now) there doesn't seem to be dramatic turnarounds/improvements in shows from preview to opening anymore these days.

I think if it was an invited dress-rehearsal people should not say anything negative though - when you are a guest of the producers and creative team it feels like a bit of a stab in the back (I look at someone who posted about the War Paint dress rehearsal).

I created a Fan page for the show on Facebook and I'd love to see more people join it, lol https://www.facebook.com/groups/1862878927331038/

ACL2006 said: "Just check out the reviews on their Facebook page. Mostly 5 stars. The word-of-mouth from their tryouts in Toronto & D.C. have helped get the early word out, too. I'm also expecting the show to do very well. I see the Toronto production having a long run, too. Tickets were extremely hard to get when it was first there. I'd also expect the show to tour beginning in the 2018-19 season. I wonder if this would do well in London?

There is such a strong bond between Brits and Canadians -- I think it would do well over there. 9/11 is seared into the collective memory of so many people, I can imagine this being done in different languages, too.

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I positively loathed this show. But just to put things in perspective, I loathed Once, as well. The reason I mention Once is because I haven't disliked a show more since Once. Guess it's that folk music vibe. Don't care what the critics have to say, this was my least enjoyable night of theater this season. To those who enjoy this type of music and musical, enjoy! To the producers and cast, break a leg! I'm sure the show will have a nice long run.

Updated On: 3/12/17 at 10:36 AM

WiCkEDrOcKS said: "See, I loved ONCE.

COME FROM AWAY, not so much.



"I am working on Come From Away. And I can understand if you don't like the show. Obviously everybody is entitled to their own opinions. However I don't know where you're getting the idea that the audience was "papered." The only comps during previews were for the creative team in the last row of the orchestra.

Anybody who says anything negative about this production is either

1. Invested in Dear Evan Hanson

2. A Trump Supporter

3. Heartless

or all of the above.

the show is glorious start to finish. New favorite show on broadway.

^The thing is, is that this show isn't really about 9/11.

Tag said: "^The thing is, is that this show isn't really about 9/11.



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The show may not take place in New York as it is happening, but the show is most certainly about 9/11. The lyrics like "Someone used the thing I loved most as the bomb" or something is absolutely cringey and distasteful. The show is about people coming together during a time of crisis and all that, but the show is still about 9/11.

cam5y said: "I really think it's important to see the show in context to see how the (in my opinion, very tastefully done) references to 9/11 work. The producers were aware of this, and invited a large number of 9/11 first responders and their families to the invited dress. Afterwards, the first responders sent the cast members FDNY hats with 9/11/01 embroidered on them.

I went to the first preview with a songwriter friend of mine who lives downtown, watched the towers fall from her apartment window, and who carries emotional scars to this day. I almost didn't even tell her about this show, knowing how 9/11 affected her -- but at the last minute I did tell her, was surprised that she said yes, I was able to get her a ticket, though we couldn't sit together.

I found her at the end of the show in the lobby, tears streaming down her face -- she was speechless, moved beyond words. Like me, she had no idea what to expect. I feel that this musical touches something deep in everyone, but especially those who lived through that day and the aftermath -- which was considerable.

Remember all the "MISSING" posters, the people wandering the streets with photos, stopping strangers, asking Have you seen my husband? Wife? Brother? Sister? Mother? Father?

Two young sons of a friend of mine who worked in one of the towers told everybody, "Daddy's not here because he's down there helping to rescue people. He'll be home soon."

Down near St. Vincent's Hospital that chain link fence with all those pictures of the missing -- the utter sadness and despair -- the scores of people who worked on "the pile," but didn't wear protective breathing apparatus . . . these are all stories that we know and remember, though some may try to forget.

To see a story about what happened in Canada when those 38 planes landed -- to see the goodness that flourished in the midst of all the heartache and sorrow and anger -- it's a story many of us are only hearing about all these years later. In these cynical times, it's what we need to inspire us to do better now.

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