Ghost Brothers of Darkland County Tour - Anyone going?

Anyone going (ever saw previously) the Ghost Brothers of Darkland County? It's the show created by Stephen King, John Mellencamp and T. Bone Burnett.

They are doing a tour in November/December starring Gina Gershon and Billy Burke, and it's coming to the beacon Theater in NYC on November 24.

But the tour is making a bunch of stops: http://www.ghostbrothersofdarklandcounty.com/events/

I have a decent ticket for the Beacon, but not quite sure what I'm signed on to...

I almost saw the full production. I was performing that night in a different show. I am still bummed I missed it. Emily Skinner was in the cast.

In a recent interview, King seems to think this could still land on Broadway, which is why they are probably waiting?

I saw the original production in Atlanta 2nd row. Taking my wife to see it in Detroit, Nov 26. 1st row lower balcony. It will be interesting to see what has changed and if the show will be as effective from farther away. The devil was amazing from 10 ft away.

Just landed tickets for Monday's performance. Running time? Anything else to report? Very curious about this. TIA

I just bought a fantastic seat for next to nothing. I'm excited because King is my favorite writer.

What about scenic elements? tech elements?

I agree. It is dreck! No redeeming value whatsoever. Can't imagine what great work they think they've created here.

Hundreds if not more than a thousand seats were comps. The lines to pick up the free tickets were unusually long!

I, along with many others, beat a path to the exit doors at intermission.

A wasted evening.

The tour is nothing like the original.

The tour is done with no sets or props. It is done like a group of friends sitting around a campfire and acting out a ghost story. They removed a lot of dialog and replaced it with narration from either a narrator that plays in the band or from the devil who is both a character in the show and narrator. This shortened the show and without staging was necessary to give the audience the location and the big clock over the set that told the audience the year and time.

I found the band better than the original as it was up high and behind the sets for the original. Gina Gershon does not fill Emily Skinner's shoes in the role of the mother.

The audience was mostly John Melloncamp fans and not used to seeing theater so, the concert style setting suited them fine from talking to a few neighbors.

The use of the devil was much more clever in the original. In the tour, he walks and tells what his going to do. The original had the couple actually jumping off a cliff about 12 ft above the stage into a hole in the stage and repeated 3 maybe 4 times with little Joe telling a different version of the story each time and the couple acting it out each time. The final scene where the brother kills his brother and girlfriend is total different the devil sets off a chain reaction that could have been done in this production which was completely unexpected and left the entire audience gasping with it pure genius choreography. I wanted to rewind and see what I just witnessed. The timing was pure magic. Kind of a Rube Goldberg of death with snap fast reactions with one action causing 3 deaths in domino fashion. I cannot believe they left that out.

Updated On: 12/3/14 at 07:42 PM