DEAD OUTLAW To Open On Broadway April 27, 2025 — Page 4

The general on sale went live. 

Pretty much exactly what it was for the “presale” - Orchestra starting at $176, Mezz at $135, Balcony at $79 (and there are VERY few seats at that price).

If we see it on the first night of previews (Saturday, April 12), any suggestions for whether we should sit in the center mezzanine or the rear orchestra to the side? Would the balcony be too far away for a musical like this one?

I’m leaning towards rear side orchestra or center mezzanine. The staging could be different on Broadway than the off-Broadway version, but some shows benefit from being near the center and others don’t matter.

I have never sat in the Longacre mezzanine so can’t speak to that.

I really hope the critics have a more discerning view of this musical when it comes to Broadway. I personally thought it was mostly a waste of space downtown. 

I truly don’t understand the raves this musical has gotten.  I kept waiting for the action to start, but nothing ever happened. 

And I adored it and thought it was the best show I saw last year. I thought it was a unique, charming and fascinating presentation of an unbelievable true story, with terrific, catchy, humorous, deadpan, original Yakbek songs and an amazingly talented cast. I wasn’t bored for a second. It will be interesting to see if critical feedback changes in the move to Broadway. 

whatever2 said: "IIRC, a fair bit of the action takes place stage right."

Assuming it’s not restaged, which is a big assumption, would I be better off house left or house right? I wouldn’t want our views cut off.

SHUCKED literally laid out a blueprint for how to build hype for an original and (relatively) unproven musical. They were advertising EVERYWHERE months beforehand and they even had it up on TDF three months ahead of time and the marketing did NOT stop for the whole run.

Why are more shows not following this blueprint?

bear88 said: "whatever2 said: "IIRC, a fair bit of the action takes place stage right."

Assuming it’s not restaged, which is a big assumption, would I be better off house left or house right? I wouldn’t want our views cut off."

i'm not the best person to answer this -- i don't like sitting to either side. (i tend to go "up" vs "over" when i want to save money.) that said, based on the production at the Audible i think you would want house right over house left.

Shucked didn't recoup, did it? (I could be wrong ) So why would they rush to follow a plan that didn't lead to financial success?

Shucked did not recoup. They made a valiant effort, but certainly didn't create any sort of new blueprint for success. 

 

agree to disagree. at least two key scenes 

occured fairly stage right.

i don't kow the sightlines in the Longacre well enough to speak with authority, but i could easily see it being a consideration in, you know an entirely different venue.

Yup.  They read you're comments here and said, "Hold my corpse."   ;)

 

 

I think a lot of potential ticket buyers are waiting for discounts. The producers are really making a big error here. The buzz from last year has faded quite a bit and it remains a largely unknown quantity to the general public- they need to be focusing on rebuilding buzz through word of mouth. It’s much easier to come back from largely discounted previews than unsold ones.