HERE LIES LOVE Previews

[LimelightMike]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 2:32am

What with previews starting last night (4/2), I just wanted to start a thread for anyone who maybe happened to see it, and/or will be seeing it as previews continue at The Public!

[April Saul]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 5:26pm

Someone over at ATC saw and loved it; would love to go, but this is such an expensive ticket! Will keep checking here for guidance in this matter

[RippedMan]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 5:29pm

April, if people like it enough, it will go to Broadway. With that creative team, it seems like it's a no-brainer for a transfer next year.

[Cheetos Rivera]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 5:53pm

"April, if people like it enough, it will go to Broadway. With that creative team, it seems like it's a no-brainer for a transfer next year."

The show is a total 3D experience and requires the audience to stand the entire time, a la FUERZABRUTA. I don’t think any Broadway house can host this show.

[April Saul]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 5:56pm

Cheetos--Yes, agreed! So if you have gone, is this not to be missed? And can someone who's five-foot-two and can never see over anyone's head in a crowd enjoy it?

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 6:02pm

Are they not doing rush for this or something?

[RippedMan]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 6:11pm

Oh didn't know that. But they could make that concept work if they really wanted to. But I'm sure this will extend through the summer.

[April Saul]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 6:47pm

No rush tickets for this, Clyde; I called today and asked. I thought about joining, but there's not enough else they've got going on that I want to see that badly.

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 4/3/13 at 6:50pm

That is some bullsh!t.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 12:04am

What happened to the whole "public" thing? No cheap seats? c'mon.

[emg_sound]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 1:27am

If this were to transfer uptown, does no one see the poignancy of putting this show into Imelda's favorite place in NYC, Studio 54? A disco dance musical in the shrine of disco? That would be downright Site Specific! (Crazy, don't you think?)

[LimelightMike]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 1:32am

So, wait, has NO ONE on here seen it yet? LOL

[emilyfaye48]

Posted: 4/4/13 at 11:58pm

I saw the show tonight. First to clear something up, there IS rush available although I don't know if it's for all performances, one of my friends got a ticket for $20, she got in line at 6:20pm and was first in line, they sold her the ticket at 7pm.

The show is amazing! Ruthie Ann Miles is stunning as Imelda and the entire cast is perfect. The atmosphere was really fun, it felt like a dance club. There were platforms which the actors stood on that moved around the space, everyone was constantly moving, actors and audience. this show could never play any kind of traditional theatre but I do hope it has a life after this production.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 4/5/13 at 12:10am

Could they ever do this kind of show on Broadway? Like, get rid of the seats and have people stand?

[emilyfaye48]

Posted: 4/5/13 at 12:21am

No way

[April Saul]

Posted: 4/5/13 at 12:33am

Hey EmilyFaye--I actually called the Public Theater and asked them a couple of days ago and they said there wouldn't be, so I guess they're not any more reliable than the Broadway box offices these days. But that's great your friend rushed it! Now I will give it a try, too

[macnyc]

Posted: 4/5/13 at 10:08am

EmilyFaye, thanks for the info! Need your friend need to show a student ID, or is it general rush, even unofficially?

[April Saul]

Posted: 4/5/13 at 11:21am

In case Emily doesn't get back to you, all rushes at the Public to date have been general rushes, although usually students are able to buy advance tickets for $25. But yeah, they don't seem to be willing to admit they're offering anything on the cheap for this one! And most of the performances do say sold out, although there's always cancellations and no-shows; I am wondering if yesterday was an anomaly.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/5/13 at 11:41am

Only one person has seen this thus far?

You're letting me down, BWW!!

[April Saul]

Posted: 4/7/13 at 12:04am

WTF, PUBLIC THEATER! I mean, I love them and have been a member several times and I wish I felt I could justify spending $97 on this show but twice now, they have given me bad information about their "rush" policy on the phone and they need to get their act together.

Thursday they told me there'd be no rush ever, then a poster here got a rush ticket. This afternoon on the phone, they told me sure, there'd be RUSH for every show, you just had to show up at the theater any time after 1 pm and put your name on a list and check back and that would be true today as well. When I showed up a few hours after that, they said, of course there was no rush and they were only taking names for cancellations; if they got to your name, you could get a full-price ticket at the last minute. Their story at that point was that rush would only be available for performances that weren't sold out (which will be almost none of them)

I totally understand them wanting to raise as much money from this show as they possibly can. What I hate is that not only did they give me bad information twice, but then when I called them on it, rather than just saying, sorry we said that and that you came all this way, they acted like I was crazy.

So "rush" at your own risk here...would love to compare notes, if nothing else!

[After Eight]

Posted: 4/7/13 at 8:50am

"Only one person has seen this thus far?

You're letting me down, BWW!!"

This seems to be a recurring refrain from many here.

First, repeatingly asking if anyone has seen a show isn't magically going to produce people who have seen it. And indeed, there may very well have been people who have seen it and who just didn't feel like posting on it.

As for the business of BWW letting you down, you too are a member of BWW, and so you too are letting us down.

And if you're that interested in the show why not just go see it yourself?
And if you're unable/unwilling to do so, then at least stop bugging others.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/7/13 at 11:02am

Well, mea f**king culpa, After Eight. Jeez. Is the air thin on your Olympian perch?

[Kad]

Posted: 4/7/13 at 11:53am

Borstal, I believe I'll be seeing it next Saturday. I'll post my thoughts here.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/7/13 at 3:37pm

Why thank you, Kad! Circumstances make it impossible for me to see it, alas.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 4/7/13 at 3:48pm

"Could they ever do this kind of show on Broadway? Like, get rid of the seats and have people stand?"

Various productions have done major alterations to Broadway houses in the past (the tables at Studio 54 for Cabaret, the huge alterations to the Broadway for Hal Prince's revival of Candide, to name a few), so if they really wanted to bring it in and found a producer who shared that desire they would find a way.