GAME: Broadway Previews

BWW is known for members rushing to the earliest previews of new shows and posting their observations here. Of course, with the theaters closed right now we can't do that. Or can we?

Let's use our fertile imaginations and post our impressions of a fictitious musical that we will call BREAK A LEG! which will star the dynamic duo of Loretta Swit and John Stamos among others Very simply, the plot concerns an incredibly popular television actress who is preparing to make her Broadway musical debut and Stamos plays her manager.

You know that shows undergo numerous changes during previews, so work that into your reviews.

Have fun. I'm looking forward to reading your "reviews"

Updated On: 3/17/20 at 05:34 PM

Dollypop said: "among others"

Look, I bought tickets because I never miss a chance to see Lewis Stadlen on the New York stage. His big number, "Shtupping In The Shtetl," stopped the show cold. But the real thrill was Murphy Guyer's 5-minute role as a plummer. I haven't been this enamored by a performance since the time I saw Lainie Kazan at Fairway.

Updated On: 3/17/20 at 09:23 PM

I did the student rush line at 10am. It’s good right now - I was the only one there! But not bad for $20 and my seats were obstructed by the set pieces, which were absolutely stunning. Everyone was taking pictures.

Fave part of the show.
Spoiler :
When Raquel Welch & Lorna Luft made their cameo at the end of Act 1 (with the ‘Mister Fister’ song)- a la Kerry Butler in Catch Me if you can.

Not a dry eye in the house.

Not one.

They got two Standing O’s.
I’m going back tomorrow.
I think I heard the ushers mention the student rush tickets will be FREE!
 

Updated On: 3/17/20 at 10:50 PM

Does anyone have a song list?

Come Tony season, I think "BREAK A LEG" stands a chance at best musical, but it's got stiff competition from three shows that also opened this week:

"Girl Anachronism," a biomusical about journalist, adventurer and social crusader Nellie Bly, featuring the first mainstream musical score by Amanda F*cking Palmer, with a book co-written by her and husband Neil Gaiman.

"The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari," an ambitious but nearly incomprehensible Fosse/Kander and Ebb pastiche, which is hemorrhaging money nightly due to its insistence on using a full Golden Age orchestra, dancing and singing choruses, and no microphones, synthesizers or amplification. Written by a complete nobody with zero credentials, rumors fly wildly about who is funding this money pit and why. 

And most controversial: "Cats, the Musical, The Movie, The Musical." Part Rocky Horror audience experience and part "Shuffle Along," the show recontextualizes both the stage musical, the movie and the behind-the-scenes story of both as a beautiful series of bad ideas. Conceived by, and written by, Theresa Rebeck (Smash) and Glen Berger (Song of Spider-Man). The Tony committee has not yet announced if this counts as a new show or a revival.

darquegk said: 
And most controversial: "Cats, the Musical, The Movie, The Musical." Part Rocky Horror audience experience and part "Shuffle Along," the show recontextualizes both the stage musical, the movie and the behind-the-scenes story of both as a beautiful series of bad ideas. Conceived by, and written by, Theresa Rebeck (Smash) and Glen Berger (Song of Spider-Man). The Tony committee has not yet announced if this counts as a new show or a revival."

Maybe the Tony Committee will create a new category: Best Revisal of a Revival.