Posted: 11/19/18 at 7:40pm
I too finally got to see DEH after all the hype and, surprisingly, was not in the least disappointed. I didn't see Ben Platt, but I've listened to the album often enough and Ben Levi Ross is the better singer. The rest of the cast were fine.
We were the guests of a friend who has 6th row center tix. She tix as a gift for us in Row 15 or so. Then, as she so often does, she left at intermission and gave us her tix for Act 2.
It was certainly nice to sit close for the Act with all the emotional ballads, but in general the show looked better--i.e., the projections were less distracting--from Row 15. It was somewhat distracting to be so close and to have my eye drawn by social media projections that moved at a distance from the actors during key moments.
