Help choosing a show..

I usually get to see one Broadway show a year and my mom promised me I'd get to pick one, and "Sunday" is my absolute favorite show. So I've been bugging her about it since it was announced that it was coming back to Broadway and since my family has absolutely no appreciation for Broadway, my mom thinks it doesn't matter that the show I love and want to see is closing. She decides, however, to try and get tickets literally the day before it closes (today). Obviously, it's sold out.

I'm pissed beyond words and I honestly don't give a s**t about any other show right now, so I need your help because I figure you all know more about Broadway than my mom does, who thinks that the only great shows on earth are Phantom of the Opera and Jersey Boys. So I would appreciate it if any of you had a suggestion for a show that would (hopefully) make up for the fact that I will probably never see Sunday in the Park With George. Thanks in advance.

Is this the only weekend you can see a show? If not, why not wait a little while to see one so this doesn't color the show you DO get to see?

(I'm not being 'smart' ~ I just know how my mood and attitude will color my experience of something and if I go into it thinking "I only wanted to see..." then obviously I will hate whatever I'm seeing. And I don't think that's really fair to the other show.)

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Updated On: 6/28/08 at 11:33 AM

If this IS the only weekend you can see something, I second LePetiteFromage's suggestions of Gypsy or In The Heights.

But as I said before, I have a feeling your mood and attitude will color whatever you see no matter how wonderful it is, and I'd wait if possible. Then see one of the two mentioned.

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Updated On: 6/28/08 at 11:36 AM

OK, cool. I know I'm that way... I also often have to be careful about the show I see immediately after a show I love closes so I'm not unfair to that one. I usually end up choosing something I've seen or something I know going in I probably won't like just to get it over with. LOL. (My sister is the same way, which is why I'm so glad we managed to find tickeets to Wicked when she and my parents are up here...I didn't want her pouting through Gypsy. Now she can see both.)

I do think either Gypsy or In The Heights would be a good choice.

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Updated On: 6/28/08 at 11:42 AM

Any other suggestions?

I don't live in New York, so I don't think that would work out. Thank you though. That's good about Patti, too. Isn't it true that she never missed a performance of Sweeney Todd?

Definitely In The Heights! You'll enjoy Sunday as well. I've seen both and they are great shows.

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