City Center Encores! 2023-24 season: PAL JOEY • ONCE UPON A MATTRESS • JELLY'S LAST JAM • TITANIC — Page 4

macnyc said: "Tickets are on sale now for the general public. I'm in the waiting room."


That was relatively painless!

Does anyone know if Access25 tickets have gone on sale yet?

mbusani14 said: "Does anyone know if Access25 tickets have gone on sale yet?"

Could anyone by chance share the Access25 code? I signed up but they haven’t sent me any email or anything with the code to be able to purchase tickets using the program.

Thank you!

From the other videos they posted it looks like they are interpolating quite a few songs that were never in the stage version of Pal Joey.  There's a video of rehearsals for "The Lady is a Tramp," which was originally from Babes in Arms but was later used in the Frank Sinatra film version of Pal Joey - which made many changes from the stage version.

There is another video of rehearsals for "Falling in Love With Love" which is from The Boys From Syracuse.

While these sound good & fun to me in the videos, the original score for Pal Joey has enough great songs that I don’t know you need to add other songs?

I was disappointed when months ago I couldn't figure out any way to change my schedule so that I could get to NY next week to see this.  I hope it turns out to be a great show, but I have many doubts that it might turn into something that could go further than these few performances. 

Lola Getz2 said: "Has Ann Harada been mentioned forAggravain? She would kill it and be a fantastic foil to Sutton, just physically it would be a hoot. I know she is doing Bartleby in San Diego, so don’t know about the timing…"

LOVE this casting. Let's get Sutton and Ann to do Aggravain/Winnifred in rep. I really need Joshua Henry in this as literally any part. 

We are looking forward to seeing Pal Joey on Friday. Big fans of Savion Glover! Who's going?

Joey Evans Is Back. This Time He’s a Struggling Artist.

A new “Pal Joey” at City Center has reimagined the never-quite-satisfying script to make Joey (Ephraim Sykes) a forward-thinking Black jazz singer.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/arts/dance/pal-joey-savion-glover-city-center.html

Updated On: 10/30/23 at 09:15 PM

So Sutton is going to be busy if Sweeney reporting is accurate - although, you can never have enough of her!

 

 

BETTY22 said: "So Sutton is going to be busy if Sweeney reporting is accurate - although, you can never have enough of her!

IF it's accurate?  Dude, you're the one who STARTED the entire thread abut the Sweeney casting!

BETTY22 said: "Page 6 reporting....Ian Mohr is a great reporter and loves theater.

https://pagesix.com/2023/10/30/celebrity-news/aaron-tveit-sutton-foster-will-next-star-in-sweeney-todd-broadway-buzz/?_gl=1*mn8we7*_ga*MTEyNzAyNDQ5OS4xNjQ3MDI5NDI1*_ga_0DZ7LHF5PZ*MTY5ODY2MDMyNC4xNjgyLjAuMTY5ODY2MDMyNC4wLjAuMA..&_ga=2.183196198.1411144785.1696438406-1127024499.1647029425"
 

 

Some years ago had the pleasure of working with Ann Harada on an off-Broadway production of MATTRESS, and I can tell you that her Queen was amazing; she sang like crazy and got all her laughs. I played the mute king opposite her, and it was a blast. Yes, try to get Ann!

Yes, last night's dress started around 7:40p and ended around 10:20p. Tony Goldwyn and Savion Glover briefly spoke pre-show and explained that the song list was changing up to a few hours beforehand, so we should use the provided QR code to see the most updated song list, instead of what was printed on the handout. Seems like a lot of active edits happening. 

Looking forward to seeing this but it's disappointing that this City Center presentation only has a 9-piece orchestra. I assume because the whole thing was put together by commercial producers who don't want to have to reduce in the event that it makes it to Broadway.

2 pianos
2 Reeds
1 Trumpet
Bass
Drums
Guitar
Cello

I trust Darryl Waters as one of our best jazz orchestrators working in theatre today (his work on SHUFFLE ALONG and AFTER MIDNIGHT was dynamite), and the little clip I heard of "Bewitched" sounded nice.

Updated On: 11/1/23 at 06:09 PM