Hedwig's future — Page 11

You're probably right and I hope so, but I was just explaining that in general, those dates don't mean much.

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I'm as confused as the person who I just talked to at telecharge! They don't seem to have any knowledge of the ten o'clock show changes, they even talked to the box office who also has no knowledge. It is listed on the telecharge and hedwig website as 7pm performances only- I'm ticked because I literally got my sept. 20 tickets a month ago and they are great seats, I'll be bummed to lose them!

Updated On: 8/26/14 at 06:29 PM

UPDATE:
Despite the fact it is not listed on their website, after persistently calling Telecharge, I finally got someone who put in the leg work to help me- the result was the Supervisor calling me back and telling me the show is still planned for a 10PM performance on Sept. 20. I still haven't seen a refund posted to my account to suggest contrary. I'm still unsure, but I'm out of town and cannot physically go to the Belasco to check out the situation. Any suggestions? Has anyone else been notified of cancelled 10PM performances on different dates being cancelled?

I agree the 10pm show was not a big seller but most likely because most people didn't know it's possible to have a Bway show at 10pm!

From checking tickets during NPH, I noticed the Wed and Thu eve performances were almost always sold out. This makes sense since a lot of people who buy premium seats tend to be corporate (and they normally entertain clients during the week versus Fri-Sun.)

IMO, the 10 PM was the best performance. It had the best energy. If anything, I'd scrap the Sunday matinee. That crowd was deader than a doornail.

(IMO, they should do a 2 show Sat. with the 7 and 10 and get rid of that Sunday mat. This is not a matinee crowd. I think they'd benefit from a Monday night.)

So what are they going to do? A 2 PM on Sat.-that's a BAD idea. The matinees for this show are just not as energetic (the only time I witnessed a walk out was at a matinee). They can't think a six performance a week schedule will benefit them. If they're going to trade the 10 PM for anything, I'd say put in a Monday-there are less shows with Monday nights so they can provide that as an option.

Updated On: 8/28/14 at 04:35 PM

I wouldn't be surprised to see them move to an 8pm show on Saturday after Andrew leaves. But if they're canceling the last few late shows on Saturday night, I don't know that they'd also want to potentially inconvenience a second group of ticketholders by changing the performance time for them as well. Yes, there might be little harm done -- making a show later is easier than making it earlier. But as odd as it might be for 3 or 4 weeks (unsure how many they are canceling), they might just decide to leave it alone if they have a lot of tickets sold for the earlier show already.

As for "energy", I agree that the Saturday 10pm show had an awesome vibe. But energy and vibe isn't going to keep the show running. If they've decided that they should only play seven, it behooves them to pick the show to cancel that is selling the most poorly.

Also, I don't think we can underestimate the exhaustion factor. As it is, playing two evening shows within five hours was pretty unusual and -- I can only imagine -- draining for all concerned. Yes, NPH did it. Others might be able to do it too. But like NPH, Andrew doesn't have an understudy. If they decided that 8 was too many and they wanted to do seven that also wouldn't be unduly taxing, canceling one of those Saturday night shows helps a lot to make that weekend schedule more bearable -- more so, in my opinion, than the Sunday matinee.

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The crowd was super dead last Sunday! It was my first time seeing the show as well. Still loved the show, but the crowd was definitely weak!

Most if not all the shows were sold out. When I was looking at tickets before and immediately after the Tony awards for performances in July/August, I noticed there were always seats available on Sat 10pm evenings whereas Wed/Thu/Fri were almost always sold out. You're right though that by performance time the 10pm shows were indeed sold out.

I loved the energy of the 10pm show as well! I was at NPH's last 10pm show on Aug 16th and his jokes were hilarious!!! There was a portly man in the box seat who Hedwig picked on and literally told him to show his man-tits! Unbelievable but the entire audience was definitely laughing (and so did the guy!) There was an empty seat in the 3rd row and so Hedwig invited a standing room person to come down and sit on it ---- but she had big tits and Hedwig could not help but comment on her big tits. Note no one looked like they were offended.

SirNot, I think Porter would be a great choice, but if they try color-blind casting my choice would be Colman Domingo. I know it would never happen, but I can just imagine how amazing he would be in that role.

She said she won't publicly sing.

Frankly, I don't care who plays the role as long as they do it justice.

I prefer the Broadway types to the A-listers myself.

Has anyone purchased seats for this through TKTS? If so, how good were the seats?

I went to TKTS last week to see what they were offering. They had Orchestra seats all the way over...Partial view for $99.. No thank you.