Posted: 7/19/23 at 10:51pm
Just home from the final preview and I’m just as impressed with it as I was at the first preview. As much as I love the view from the front of the mezz, I really do want to experience it from the orchestra level at least once.
Posted: 7/19/23 at 11:02pm
Finally saw the show tonight - I had seen it at The Public.
It's so brilliant! Anyone who can't see and hear that is just wrong!
Posted: 7/23/23 at 11:05am
Saw the show yesterday for the matinee. Saw it at the Public three times, this show, from my recollection, is the same production with some small changes (much more $$$$$ used for production values).
While I still loved the show, to me I missed the intimacy of the Public. Being on the floor I felt a bit disconnected when the cast was in the “seated area”. I still think though that the best to see this show is on the dance floor.
the cast is fantastic and I always get choked up at the song “When she passed by” that the maid sings.
I definitely want to see it again.
Posted: 7/24/23 at 12:42am
Arielle Jacobs on working with Lea Salonga, Conrad Ricamora, Jose Llana and more in ''Here Lies Love''
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NihQeZlwY8k
Updated On: 7/24/23 at 12:42 AM
Posted: 7/24/23 at 12:50am
Jordan Catalano said: "Just home from the final preview and I’m just as impressed with it as I was at the first preview. As much as I love the view from the front of the mezz, I really do want to experience it from the orchestra level at least once."
Hey, why stop at the orchestra level? Why not go for the complete immersive experience? Fly Philippine Airlines to Manila to see a real live Marcos in action. (I would suggest leaving your stash at home. It’s open season on users, all with the blessing of a certain former president of another country.) On the long flight you’ll have plenty of time to familiarize yourself with a bit of history here, here and here, and to contemplate the possible complicity of the good old U. S. of A. in all the torturing and murdering so entertainingly being alluded to currently on Broadway.
The producers of HLL are missing a major money-making/marketing opportunity by not using another theater to simulcast the main live show for cranks like myself, with special focus on the live audience (especially in the orchestra level), where the real drama is taking place. They could then submit the video as a documentary for the Oscars and stream it on Netflx/Hulu/Whatever. I’m just full of ideas, nicht war?
Posted: 7/24/23 at 12:53am
I saw the show from the dance floor today. I liked it a lot. Really fun and I learned a lot, too.
Posted: 7/24/23 at 3:26am
Anyone know if there is an official alternate schedule for Jaygee? I tried looking at the playbill and it doesn't seem to specify.
Posted: 7/24/23 at 1:54pm
Following 'Dancing With Dictators' New York Times review, Oskar Eustis has sent out the following personal note:
Dear Friends,
HERE LIES LOVE is a joyous miracle of a show; it's among the most extraordinary musicals The Public has ever produced. The development process was rich and deep, and the show that David Byrne and Alex Timbers created was met with rapture by audiences and critics. It had one of the longest and most successful runs in The Public's history.
I am thrilled beyond words that it now has another life uptown, which will give tens of thousands of people a chance to visit (and re-visit) this jewel of a production.
Alex Timbers is one of our greatest and most original directors, and his work on HERE LIES LOVE is his best.
David Byrne is one of the most influential artists of our time. I first saw him perform with the Talking Heads at CBGB's in the late 70s; since then, he has charted a fantastic and unique career as a musician, performer, author, sculptor, theater maker, and conceptual artist. His work on HERE LIES LOVE is terrific, brilliant, inspired, ecstatic.
Posted: 7/24/23 at 1:57pm
Any chance we will get a Broadway Cast Recording of this? The Off-Broadway recording has 2 of the same leads, but has any of the music been changed in the interim? Would love a new recording, but may not make financial sense for them....any thoughts or inside info???
Posted: 7/24/23 at 2:44pm
I really hope we do! If we are, I imagine they'd want Lea on it. So, I think it's something that would happen sooner rather than later.
