EUREKA DAY Reviews — Page 2

dearalanaaaa said: "I'm surprised nobody posted this, but a pleasent surprise for the understudy today was Jennifer Laura Thompson in for Jessica Hecht! she barely stuttered, I really enjoyed the show! Longer review later if I remember."

Wow! Talk about best kept secret...I knew something was up when Suzanne (Hecht) didn't have a billed understudy. But I never suspected it would be Thompson.

itsshowtime2 said: "Was JLT secretly the understudy all along or did she just come in when Hecht got ill? My friend saw it yesterday and said she was totally off book and new the blocking."

I mean…there is no listed understudy for Suzanne. There never has been. It’s not a farfetched inference that JLT was always Hecht’s understudy but an agreement was made on both parties parts to not advertise her involvement. And do to the nature of the show and the character’s dynamics, Suzanne’s cover couldn’t have been any of the other understudies as they are all people of color.

It’s a killer role and a paycheck. I totally get why she did it. I wish I could see her if there were any confirmed public absences.

Updated On: 1/16/25 at 08:15 PM

Is Hecht back yet?

thought this was excellent.  razor sharp writing coupled with a fantastic ensemble and brilliant direction.  also, the costumes were all excellent. Jessica Hecht should get a Tony for this 

Truly an excellent evening theater.  and that one scene is so sharply written and insanely funny. tonight's audience was hysterical.  

I watched today's matinee and thought the virtual town hall was hilarious. But that was the only time I thought the play was firing on all cylinders.

My central problem is Spector's script has very little respect for the characters (a little more for the Amber Gray role) and gets a lot of mileage out of mocking them. Then at a certain point we are supposed to take their POVs more seriously and see them through a more emphatic lens, but the transition was jarring. It would be more interesting if they're three-dimensional for the first 2/3rds of the play as well. 

The triangle between the characters played by Middleditch, Yakura-Kurtz, and the off-screen wife also was frustrating. It worked in terms of illustrating how unvaccinated kids can get other kids sick, but the subplot about Eli fudging the terms of his open relationship didn't really pay off or tie back to the main vaccination story. 

There was also the ick factor in having Middleditch specifically in that role. When the actor was in an open relationship with his real wife at the time a few years ago, he was accused of sexual misconduct by a female guest at a sex club. There's zero sexual misconduct in Eureka Day, but having a guy in an open relationship not respecting people's boundaries played by Middleditch, for me was meta in a gross way. 

Totally unrelated point: the set is gorgeous and up there with The Hills of California for my favorite of the season so far. I was actually a tiny bit annoyed because I would totally take my kid to that library but that's not how Broadway sets work.

AC126748 said: "I have no comment on the ethics of casting Middleditch, but it did surprise me that there was little-to-no backlash (or even mention of the allegations) when his name was first announced. I thought he was the weakest link in the cast, personally, and I had trouble hearing him even though I was sitting in the sixth row of the orchestra.

I noticed the show is going to be playing at the Kennedy Center in March, and they're billing it as a "direct-from-Broadway" engagement. Obviously Amber Gray won't be available, but does anyone know if the rest of the current Broadway cast will be transferring down to DC?"

At Saturday's talkback, the comment was made that "we're looking forward to seeing who will be playing these characters" in DC, so I inferred that it would be a new cast.

I finally saw this last night and thought it was pretty damn great from beginning to end. It's quick, smart, funny, poignant, topical, and relevant. The performances are so well done. The comedic timing and line deliveries that each performer has are some of the best I've seen on Broadway in a while. The Zoom scene had me in stitches. Truly everything I look for in a play. If you haven't gone yet, RUN!

Caught this today for the first time and thought Eboni Flowers was one of the strongest actors on stage, would never have guessed it was her second day in the role full time. 

Kennedy Center run canceled following Trump's takeover

https://playbill.com/article/eureka-day-joins-kennedy-center-cancellations-following-trump-takeover

ACL2006 said: "Fordham2015 said: "Kennedy Center run canceled following Trump's takeover

https://playbill.com/article/eureka-day-joins-kennedy-center-cancellations-following-trump-takeover"

There really won't be anything playing at the Kennedy Center anytime soon, will there, unless it's MAGA related?"

Laura Osnes in residence ? 

Note that the Deadline article includes a link to the full livestream scene from Eureka Day. Well worth watching, or watching again!

halfhourcheckwithmerman said: "YES! In case it's unintentional or taken down (it is unlisted with a "for your consideration").

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJs0e7uL4g0"

Thank you! I had to go into "Private Browser" mode to get it to work.