FLOYD COLLINS Previews- Page 5

[bear88]

Posted: 4/11/25 at 11:46am

Has anyone seen this show from one of the far orchestra sides? Is it worth it, for the discount price, or do you need to be close to the center for the staging to work?

And if you’re on a side, is it better to be in the 100 section or the 500 section?

[jakebloke]

Posted: 4/12/25 at 11:11pm

Saw this tonight, well 1/2 of it.  In the 22 years of living in NYC, seeing countless shows, this is the very first time I have left at intermission.  It was so disappointing and boring to me.  Thank god it was a lotto ticket.

[SteveSanders]

Posted: 4/12/25 at 11:13pm

bear88 said: "Has anyone seen this show from one of the far orchestra sides? Is it worth it, for the discount price, or do you need to be close to the center for the staging to work?

And if you’re on a side, is it better to be in the 100 section or the 500 section?"

100, especially if you can get seat numbers closer to the 200 section.  Jeremy is positioned in front of you for much of the show.

[TimeToDither]

Posted: 4/13/25 at 5:38pm

This score is one of my absolute favorites so of course I was very excited to see this. It didn't disappoint but I do question many of the choices.

The book of the musical - ROUGH. This was the first time I saw a production of it and I'm shocked how dull the dialogues are in comparison to the songs. That's just some plain bad writing, no excuse.

The design ... I get the choice but if you're not going to build a cave, give us something else. Make the actors work with the space. Use projections to fill up the space. I don't know. But the stage design wasn't good.

Singing and acting, but especially singing, were good to excellent. Jeremy Jordan is very one note but shockingly, it was the one note this role seems to need. I really liked the opening section, Daybreak, The Riddle Song, Through the Mountain and How Glory Goes.

There's one person in the cast whose singing is amazing but shouldn't be anywhere near the stage.

I wish there were more musicals like this. It's complicated but deliciously specific in terms of the use of its music, the bluegrass influences are such a strong storytelling aspect, and the characters are flawed but so human. I cried several times during the show for its sheer humanness and frankly, that's something a lot of other shows are missing. This here is the reason why people will revisit the material many times in the future which I'm not sure about with many other Broadway musicals at the moment.