Les Mis was my first show when I was a kid, and I loved it because I love the music. Revisiting it near the end of its last run, I found it had become sooooooooo loooooooooong, but I could sit through it because I still loved the music (weird that it didn't strike me as long when I was 10 years old!). My friend just saw the most recent cast, after never have seen the show, and he thought it was great and had some of the best singers on Broadway at the moment. You may want to test the music on your date to see if he likes it before you get tickets, if you can find cheap ones. I'd imagine that's a really tough show to stand through, though, if you decided standing room tickets are an okay option after all.
The cheap seats in Drowsy are fine. I really liked it, and it can be a cute date show, though some of the inside theater humor may go over his head. I don't think it's too sappy, even though they market it as the most romantic musical, because it has other layers to it. I saw it with my mom, and did not end up feeling all mushy inside afterwards :)
I personally really like Putnam County Spelling Bee as a fun, smaller show, and it looks like they have $25 rush now in addition to a lottery (according to
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/boards/index.php?category=&rush=show&order=), so I wanted to throw that out there as an option.
I liked Company, and my friend who I saw it with LOVED it, but I'm not sure how good it is as a first show for college students. I felt it was a very mature show and I could have appreciated it more if I was ten years older. Also, the format is unconventional because the actors are playing instruments. I liked it in Sweeney Todd and only had a problem with it in one number of Company, but some people find the style distracting. Anyway, we did rush fairly close to show time, I think around 5:30pm?, on a Wednesday night and got tickets easily. They were in the front orchestra on the side and were fine.
Chorus Line rush was really easy for us to get on a Wednesday night a month ago, but the seats were just about the worst seats I've ever had to see ANYTHING.
I think Chicago also has easy rush, though it doesn't seem to be listed on talkingbroadway.com right now. Last year I went up to the box office pretty much right before the show started and they still had rush tickets. Phantom always has cheap $25 tickets in the back, but they are kind of nosebleed. Don't know if you think he'd like either of those.
I've heard Jersey Boys is a great show for guys who never see musicals, but that may or may not be a very early morning effort on a Thursday during a public school break.
"I thought that that was just going to be a like one shot deal for me, you know, but they kept talking about it like, 'when we do the production, when we do the production', and I was like, 'yes, yes, when you do the production, cool, I will come and see it'". - John Gallagher Jr. on SA
Updated On: 4/2/07 at 02:16 PM
