Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

#1

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 7/9/13 at 9:17am

Any plays or musicals with late summer/early fall openings that you are excited about?

Staying away from NYC in the summer heat, but craving great theater and planning a Sept. or Oct. trip to get my fix, as long as there are at least two shows I want to see.

Last trip, saw Virginia Woolf and The Other Place. Virginia Woolf, in particular, blew me away. Also loved Next to Normal, to give you a sense of my taste.

#2

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 7/9/13 at 9:46am

Glass Menagerie. I caught it in Boston, and it is stunning.

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#3

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 7/9/13 at 10:41am

Betrayal.

#4

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 7/9/13 at 12:28pm

Betrayal for me as well.

#5

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 7/9/13 at 1:35pm

the Glass Menagerie and A Time To Kill.

#6

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 7/9/13 at 1:39pm

Broadway: Glass Menagerie, Betrayal, The Snow Geese

Off-Broadway: Fun Home, Grasses of a Thousand Colors, Domesticated, The Landing

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#7

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 7/9/13 at 1:50pm

The Glass Menagerie is it for me. I'm also interested to see what Big Fish is like after the transfer, if only for Kate Baldwin.

#8

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 7/9/13 at 1:50pm

The Glass Menagerie is it for me. I'm also interested to see what Big Fish is like after the transfer, if only for Kate Baldwin.

#9

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 7/9/13 at 2:04pm

The Snow Geese and A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.

Of the 15 announced Broadway shows set to open between September-January, only 4 are new works (unless you count the Janis Joplin and Cotton Club concerts as new shows). Looks like a big season for revivals & jukebox revues.

Updated On: 7/9/13 at 02:04 PM

#10

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 7/9/13 at 5:08pm

I am also looking forward to Big Fish. I saw it in Chicago and think it holds great promise. Especially excited for Norbert to have a starring role in NYC!

#11

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 7/9/13 at 6:02pm

BETRAYAL, which is my all-time favorite non-Shakespearean play.

And FUN HOME, because I love Bechdel and didn't get to see it the first time around.

#12

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 7/9/13 at 6:14pm

TWELFTH NIGHT AND RICHARD III with Mark Rylance.

NO MAN'S LAND and WAITING FOR GODOT with Patrick Stewart and Ian Mckellen

#13

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 7/9/13 at 7:19pm

Broadway: The Glass Menagerie and Betrayal

Off-Broadway: Fun Home, Domesticated, and Little Miss Sunshine

#14

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 7/9/13 at 7:45pm

I am looking forward to Big Fish as well. I love the movie and from the songs I have seen online the show looks great! I did not however get to see pre broadway. Things did not line up and I did not really want to make the 6 hour drive :/

#15

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 8/15/13 at 11:05am

I thought I would bump up this thread, now that the season is getting closer!

I have my fingers crossed that TDF gets some of these:

BEAUTIFUL The Carole King Musical: now that Jessie Mueller has joined as King
A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER: I love Kind Hearts and Coronets, the Alec Guinness movie that uses the same source material
BETRAYAL: If I can get a discount, but I doubt it
AFTER MIDNIGHT (despite the odd name): I loved the previous incarnation, Cotton Club Parade
NO MAN'S LAND
ROMEO AND JULIET (the one on Broadway)
GLASS MENAGERIE: So much good word of mouth on this one, I'm hoping it will be this season's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
BAD JEWS: I missed it last year
DOMESTICATED: A friend wants to see it

Have tickets already for RICHARD III and TWELFTH NIGHT with Mark Rylance!

Any other suggestions?

Updated On: 8/15/13 at 11:05 AM

#16

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 8/15/13 at 11:20am

I don't know how many I'll be able to see but I'm excited for:
Beautiful
Big Fish
Glass Menagerie
Romeo and Juliet
Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder
Betrayal
Also I have a question about Neil Simon theatre seating. How is the last few rows of the Mezz. Is it far away? I sat in the middle of the orchestra for Scandalous but I didn't know how far back the balcony went.

#17

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 8/15/13 at 9:49pm

It's a fairly lack luster fall but
I'd be interested in Big Fish
and although I've seen Glass Menagerie too many times,
Ive heard wonderful things about this production.
So maybe that.

#18

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 8/15/13 at 10:08pm

Lackluster? How could you possibly think the Fall lineup is lackluster?

We have 5 new musicals and 14 plays starting. Big stars, great talent, and exciting material.

Wait -- I just need to say that again -- we have five (5!) new (new!) musicals on Broadway this FALL. Many more to come in the Spring.

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#19

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 8/15/13 at 10:11pm

It's more like an assault of musicals in the spring.

#20

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 8/15/13 at 10:12pm

GLASS MENAGERIE, BIG FISH (even if it's not terrific, Norbert Leo Butz always is), and THE LANDING, which I had the pleasure of seeing a "lab" of last summer. If they've worked on it over the past year, it's bound to be good. It isn't a "commercial" musical, and it certainly won't appeal to the masses, but it's an absolutely wonderful, sometimes devastating, ninety minutes.

#21

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 8/15/13 at 10:28pm

GLASS MENAGERIE. One of our greatest plays and I hear this production does it justice.

#22

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 8/20/13 at 11:56am

A bump, just to be a cuss.

#23

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 8/20/13 at 12:47pm

I would really love to see Rylance in Twelfth Night/Richard III, especially since I missed the productions at the Globe by just a week when I visited London last fall.

Id also love to see Betrayal and Waiting for Godot as well. Great plays with some really terrific actors.

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#24

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 8/20/13 at 8:20pm

Everybody seems to be dismissing One Night With Janis Joplin- if you are coming in from out of town- it would be wiser to see a "real" Broadway play/musical. However, anybody who sees their fair share of shows in CCANNOT miss this show. I saw it in DC and it is the best concert musical I have ever witnessed- truly a wonderful night. I felt as though there was no where in the world that I would have rather been than in that theater.

#25

Fall shows ... What are you looking forward to most?

Posted: 8/20/13 at 10:07pm

Fun Home, The Snow Geese, Domesticated, Luce, and Sunset Baby.