City Center's 24-25 Season: Ragtime, Urinetown, LaChiusa's Wild Party, Love Life — Page 13

Skip23 said: "
You can't beat that original cast. They brought such conviction to the roles and their voices were all stellar. Not so in this cast. And the Encores!bug-a-boo showed its ugly head again...that sound designer/tech should be shot.
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Let’s maybe not use this rhetoric?

I saw the 1997 original (though in the pre-Broadway LA run with LaChanze and John Rubinstein instead of Audra and Peter Friedman) and the 2009 Broadway revival, and Ragtime is one of my personal all-time top 5 musicals. Came from LA to see the closing performance tonight and am very glad I did. Sure, there are things that can’t be fully realized in a concert staging, and there were moments when I missed some of the choices from the prior productions, but just hearing that score performed by a full orchestra and some magnificent voices is enough of a treat…and there’s no denying the timeliness of the material. Three mid-show standing ovations tonight (Wheels of a Dream, Back to Before, and Make Them Hear You). Hoping for a transfer!

Tonight was a great night. The one thing I noticed tonight was the license plate numbers on the car was the date of the show opening on Broadway 011898NY

Hope it happens. I know a couple of people who didn’t make it to City Center but would love to see it. And I’d go again.

Fingers crossed they get Donna back.

Damn it! I've never had a chance to see EITHER Wild Party! Grr.



Jordan - I haven't rec'd an email yet - are they also offering refunds? (I don't know that I care to see WT. (I've never bgeen exposed to it.)

I've never heard of a show having a scheduling conflict...? Stars, yes. But shows?

dramamama611 said: "Jordan - I haven't rec'd an email yet - are they also offering refunds? (I don't know that I care to see WT. (I've never bgeen exposed to it.)"

Yeah there’s a link in there to request a refund

Tenor8674 said: "Again? Meanwhile,I've been waiting too long to see another show from that same year, ME & JULIET. Ugh!"

That’s my number one request for Encores fo FINALLY do. I’ve been asking for it for so many years.

FWIW they did say they're still planning on doing Wild Party in 2026.

From what I've heard it sounded like Jack Viertel had a personal vendetta against Me and Juliet?

Will Linda Mugleston take over the role of Ruth again?

Tenor8674 said: "chrishuyen said: "FWIW they did say they're still planning on doing Wild Party in 2026.

From what I've heard it sounded like Jack Viertel had a personal vendetta against Me and Juliet?"

When I asked him, he didn't seem that enthusiastic. Ted Chapin from R&H would just say "We'll see.""

I was at a Zoom discussion with Chapin where he full out said that it was because Viertel was against doing Me and Juliet (he did point out that the original reviews felt the star of the show was Jo Mielziner's complex, mechanized scenery--groundbreaking in many ways--which of course couldn't be replicated for Encores. But that score needs a better recording.)

So considering the director do we imagine this Wonderful Town will be... not traditional? I mean we already have the crazy Toulon opera version on DVD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU7dOTbi5aU&t=1s

EricMontreal22 said: "Tenor8674 said: "chrishuyen said: "FWIW they did say they're still planning on doing Wild Party in 2026.

From what I've heard it sounded like Jack Viertel had a personal vendetta against Me and Juliet?"

When I asked him, he didn't seem that enthusiastic. Ted Chapin from R&H would just say "We'll see.""

I was at a Zoom discussion with Chapin where he full out said that it was because Viertel was against doing Me and Juliet (he did point out that the original reviews felt the star of the show was Jo Mielziner's complex, mechanized scenery--groundbreaking in many ways--which of course couldn't be replicated for Encores. But that score needs a better recording.)

So considering the director do we imagine this Wonderful Town will be... not traditional? I mean we already have the crazy Toulon opera version on DVD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU7dOTbi5aU&t=1s


And yet didn't the Mufti just use a ladder and very little else? I didn't get to see it.

Updated On: 11/13/24 at 04:23 PM