Here Lies Love Mark Taper Forum

[inception]

Posted: 2/12/26 at 2:19pm

I guess I made a mistake & ordered a ticket through TodayTix for Here Lies Love for tonight Feb 12 instead of next month March 12.

If anyone is in LA & can use the ticket tonight I have turned on private messages.  I guess you need a todaytix account and I'll send the info for the tickets through another PM

 

Updated On: 2/12/26 at 02:19 PM

[BoringBoredBoard40]

Posted: 2/12/26 at 2:29pm

Seeing this Friday night!

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 2/12/26 at 4:32pm

Wish I could go, very curious to see how this plays in a non-replica production.

[inception]

Posted: 2/12/26 at 5:13pm

I gave the ticket away on reddit. PM's are turned off again.

[CoffeeBreak]

Posted: 2/12/26 at 5:51pm

Wish the ethnicities of the creative team could match the material.  It's not necessary but would be nice since the Broadway wasn't either.

[darquegk]

Posted: 2/12/26 at 6:20pm

My understanding from talking to Filipino friends is Here Lies Love is to them much like West Side Story is to modern Puerto Ricans: they allow and appreciate it, but don't exactly EMBRACE it, and they think a Filipino creative team certainly wouldn't have created a fun musical about the Marcos regime, let alone enthusiastically revived it.

[inception]

Posted: 2/13/26 at 9:57am

Bought a new ticket for when I will actually be in LA - don't know how I misread the calendar?  There's a discount code you can use for some dates on the CTG site that saves a bit over current prices on todaytix - SoCalFilipinos

But darn it my ticket for last night was a good deal- I had somehow got a regular $100 seat for only $30

[macbeth]

Posted: 2/14/26 at 8:48am

They added Never So Big and The Whole Man back to the show from the concept album! 

[BoringBoredBoard40]

Posted: 2/14/26 at 3:15pm

I saw the show last night. Boy what an odd experience. Having only known the show to exist a certain way for so long seeing it totally reconcieved kind of hurt my brain.

This production is mostly a procenium show but they have added two platforms in the mid orchestra that are utilized and there are some moments that spill out into the auditorium. The show can't quiet decide what level of immersion it wants to put forward and the framing device of it being a episode of a variety show very much falls away after the opening.

This production also pulls the DJ character towards the center making them both a drag queen and also more of a character similar to the Emcee in Cabaret.

The added songs are, fine, but could stay or go (The Whole Man takes place with Ninoy in jail and Imelda giving a speech at the UN) The cast is mostly good but no one really stands out. This production shows that it is possible for the material to be done without building a big immersive nightclub but this production was still screaming out to be all over the room and felt restricted at times

Granted it was only a third preview but the sound mix was all over the place, it was hard to make our lyrics but then some songs that sonically should have been LOUD like Dancing Together felt flat and needed BASS

My biggest critque of the production is that it spells out EVERYTHING via projected captions, it is if the director doesn't trust the audience to be able to understand what is happening and when.

Overall it is a fun experiment that doesn't quiet work but if you are a fan of the show it is an interesting watch. 

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 2/16/26 at 2:59am

There was an interesting review of Reddit that explained a lot of the changes, though they mentioned that rather than changing the DJ character into a drag queen, it's more of cutting the DJ character completely and introducing a new character to kind of represent a certain alter ego portrayal of Imelda, which I found interesting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Broadway/comments/1r5xltm/here_lies_love_los_angeles_a_review

I would've loved to go had I the chance to be in LA for it, but I look forward to hearing more reports.