Groban & Ashford in SWEENEY TODD On Broadway - Reviews & News Thread- Page 48

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 5/8/23 at 6:15am

The opening track sounds fantastic. Crystal clear orchestrations and vocals. I can't wait to hear the rest of the album.

[AllThatJazz2]

Posted: 5/8/23 at 10:46am

Have the chance to see this in August. Is there any significant difference between sitting center mezz E (last row of front mezz) versus sitting in the inner aisle side seats for row C of the front mezz (closest to the center section)? Don’t know if there’s enough difference to really impact the view sitting two rows ahead slightly off center. 

[Dylan Smith4]

Posted: 5/8/23 at 11:15am

Oh my, this Opening Ballad sent chills down my spine! I need the full album now! I desperately want to hear Groban's Epiphany again, as well as Gaten's Not While I'm Around, which nearly destroyed me emotionally! This cast album is gonna be stellar!

[Jasmine Green]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 12:29am

ljay889 said: "Groban announced on IG that he has laryngitis."

Does anyone know the typical recovery time for laryngitis lol. I have tickets to see this next week and I'm wondering if I should expect to see the standby. It's not a dealbreaker for me, I've heard Nicholas Christopher is wonderful, but I'm taking my mom and she'll be disappointed to miss Groban. Just want to manage expectations.

 

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 8:48am

Next week? You'll likely be fine. 

[PanaroFan111]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 10:30pm

So its confirmed Josh will be out tomorrow?

I dont have Instagram but i heard on this thread

Thats why i so many seats opened up tonight for tomorrows shows

If i want a refund do i call tele charge or do i have to go to the box office?

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 5/10/23 at 11:04am

PanaroFan111 said: "So its confirmed Josh will be out tomorrow?

I dont have Instagram but i heard on this thread

Thats why i so many seats opened up tonight for tomorrows shows

If i want a refund do i call tele charge or do i have to go to the box office?"

Groban will definitely be out of the matinee today, but nothing has been announced for this evening's performance yet. If he is out and you want a refund, you would contact your point of purchase (which was probably Ticketmaster, not Telecharge).

 

[nmartin]

Posted: 5/10/23 at 6:51pm

Updated On: 5/10/23 at 06:51 PM

[Voter]

Posted: 5/13/23 at 6:16pm

Tried to get standing room tickets for tonight’s performance and they were sold out. I went around 5pm and asked 

[Voter]

Posted: 5/13/23 at 6:26pm

Voter said: "Tried to get standing room tickets for tonight’s performance and they were sold out. I went around 5pm and asked"

If you check Insta, these have been getting bought up by the cast in advance to be given out.

[yyys]

Posted: 5/13/23 at 6:34pm

They sell them when box office opens.

Voter said: "Tried to get standing room tickets for tonight’s performance and they were sold out. I went around 5pm and asked"

 

[Fordham2015]

Posted: 5/13/23 at 9:00pm

Saw today's matinee. This production blows the John Doyle revival out of the water. It restores the humor to A Little Priest and the Johanna- Act II sequence.

Josh and Annaleigh are both fantastic- they broke at one moment during Priest (the "privates" bit) and it was fantastic. 

The choreography is also very inventive, especially during Poor Thing.

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 5/17/23 at 12:37pm

Jeanna de Waal will be making her Mrs. Lovett debut this afternoon!

[binau]

Posted: 5/17/23 at 12:41pm

EDSOSLO858 said: "Jeanna de Waal will be making her Mrs. Lovett debut this afternoon!"

Very interesting. Will be curious to see how much she attempts to mimic Ashford's mannerisms or not. 

[jacobtsf]

Posted: 5/17/23 at 1:49pm

Fordham2015 said: "Josh and Annaleigh are both fantastic- they broke at one moment during Priest (the "privates" bit) and it was fantastic."

They didn't break. This moment is part of the direction and it is absolutely terrible. It takes the audience out of the show for no reason, and is a stupid bit of direction any time it is used (I felt the same way when I first saw it used in Hairspray). Sondheim's words are more than funny enough, the director could have even made it so that the CHARACTERS laugh (not the actors faking a break).

[PianoMann]

Posted: 5/17/23 at 2:16pm

jacobtsf said: "Fordham2015 said: "the director could have even made it so that the CHARACTERS laugh (not the actors faking a break)."

This is absolutely the way it played when I saw the show last month, as Todd and Lovett enjoying their own humor. It, to me, read nothing like the Hugh and Sutton break, do a soft-shoe, head-in-hands giggling from Music Man.

 

[jacobtsf]

Posted: 5/17/23 at 4:47pm

PianoMann said: "This is absolutely the way it played when I saw the show last month, as Todd and Lovett enjoying their own humor. It, to me, read nothing like the Hugh and Sutton break, do a soft-shoe, head-in-hands giggling from Music Man."

Hopefully it has changed since I saw it in late previews, but there was nothing in character about the break when I saw it. Thank you for reminding me about The Music Man, I was trying to think of the other show that employed this laziness and couldn’t remember. Little Priest read just as blatant as Music Man to me, disgusting. 

[Fordham2015]

Posted: 5/17/23 at 5:01pm

Jeanna is also doing the night show, per Instagram.

[PianoMann]

Posted: 5/17/23 at 5:12pm

jacobtsf said: "PianoMann said: "This is absolutely the way it played when I saw the show last month, as Todd and Lovett enjoying their own humor. It, to me, read nothing like the Hugh and Sutton break, do a soft-shoe, head-in-hands giggling from Music Man."

Hopefully it has changed since I saw it in late previews, but there was nothing in character about the break when I saw it. Thank you for reminding me about The Music Man, I was trying to think of the other show that employed this laziness and couldn’t remember. Little Priest read just as blatant as Music Man to me, disgusting."

Oh that's interesting! I think it really has changed drastically since previews, then. It sounds like a lot of the show has settled in, too, since I had almost none of the quibbles or complaints with it that many had during previews. 

 

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 5/17/23 at 5:31pm

Also, Raymond J. Lee is on for Beadle Bamford at both performances today, as Rapson is out with COVID. 

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 5/17/23 at 5:36pm

ANY WORD ON HOW JEANNA DID AS LOVETT

[Scarlet Leigh]

Posted: 5/17/23 at 6:15pm

My friend is going to tonight (tickets he's actually had for months now) and she's on again. Jealous is an understatement.

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 5/17/23 at 6:26pm

[Hairspray0901]

Posted: 5/21/23 at 3:26pm

I’m finally seeing this on Wednesday! Has anything been announced yet regarding Gaten or Ruthie’s departure/temporary leave for Stranger Things / Light in the Piazza? 

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 5/21/23 at 3:29pm

Stranger Things isn't crossing the picket line, so that's been pushed back a bit, meaning Gaten will probably be there a little longer.