IF/THEN opening in DC tonight.- Page 3

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 11/7/13 at 8:06pm

disneybroadwayfan, I'm sure qolbinau will have a hissy fit about spoilers but:

Idina kisses Anthony and they end up in bed together. No stripping, no nudity, nothing below the waist. The lights go down and they skip to the next morning.

[RW3]

Posted: 11/7/13 at 8:57pm

What's the running time so far?

[binau]

Posted: 11/7/13 at 9:17pm

OrangeSkittles, I don't know why you continue to be so bitchy about this issue considering my only request was that people be mindful about spoilers. For your recent post, as soon as I read that your post may contain spoilers I decided not to read it and all was fine. Prefacing your posts with a spoiler tag is exactly what other people have done on this forum for a long time for new shows.

I don't see why requesting you (or others) be more thoughtful of other people deserves ridicule. It seems to me that you're only the one having a hissy fit here.

[mcsquared]

Posted: 11/7/13 at 10:05pm

It's almost exactly 3 hours, including the 15 minute intermission.

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 11/7/13 at 10:36pm

Ok, that's good! :)

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 12:40am

Besides the subway map effect (which sounds amazing), this show sounds as messy and uninteresting as it sounded on paper.

[mcsquared]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 10:10am

I didn't even notice the subway map! Maybe it wasn't visible from the side where I was sitting.

[Claudia Draper]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 11:33am

Yes, they painted the whole theater. It is a dark rust color and there are new seats. The theater is really nice.

[JeanneMarie]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 11:41am

I saw it opening night. I really really wanted to like this show and so did the audience. You could feel everyone's anticipation and as soon as Idina came out there was spontaneous applause (which seemed to throw her off a little). Unfortunately, what a lot of other people are saying is true - it was really hard to follow. I felt very distracted trying to figure out what timeline she was in. As far as music, there were a few good numbers and one really fabulous one toward the end of the second act (which makes the whole ending anti-climatic) but in general there are too many ballads that all sound the same. The set design did remind me a lot of Next to Normal but the mirrored ceiling was very cool. There were some funny moments, some good scenes, but it was very long and I just never cared all that much about the characters - I almost dozed off at one point. I do see potential, but it seems like some of these problems should have been fixed before now. Oh and there is one scene that should be completely eliminated. It makes absolutely no sense and does not add anything to the story since it is only briefly mentioned in later scenes. Hopefully the creators will take the feedback they get before officially opening and do some tweaking.

[Esther2]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 12:44pm

The paint job is new, but the seats and the carpet/drapes are the same. Which is the problem. They don't match. If they were going to redecorate, they should have redecorated.

I agree with much of JeanneMarie's review. I don't know N2N, but the music in this sounds quite...generic. It was difficult to follow at the beginning. When I realized in the revolving bedroom scene what the structure actually was, I was trying to replay the start of the show in my head so I could figure out what was happening. I did love the subway map in lights on the floor. That played nicely in the mirror from my seat in the mezz.

I hear they chopped about 20 minutes between the first and second shows, but I don't know what. I saw the second show. At intermission, I thought I may try to go back near the end of the run here. At the end of the show, I wasn't sure I wanted to sit through it again. We'll see.

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 2:10pm

What time does it end?

[jimmycurry01]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 2:31pm

qolbinau, that initial post that you complained about didn't really have any spoilers, that's why you are getting bitchy comments now.

[HoundDoggydog]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 2:34pm

People need to learn the difference between "complained about" and "asked politely". qolbinau asked politely. Let's back off.

[binau]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 5:00pm

Thank you HoundDoggydog.

Just reading over orangeskittles' reply to my initial post makes me cringe so much. It's ridiculously funny how defensive they were/are. Some self-control would probably help this discussion.

jimmycurry01, I personally consider the following phrase a spoiler because it reveals one what I assume is a main idea/plot of the show: "heavy-handedness of a woman choosing to get married and have a family was being pushed as the "right" path over having a career". I realise this detail is not as spoilerish as say the major plot twit in N2N, Sweeney Todd etc.

Updated On: 11/8/13 at 05:00 PM

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 5:24pm

*Spoiler* post below:

Just saw this last night but don't agree about the family option being "pushed" as the right one. The outcome certainly is more positive in the one where she focuses first on her career - in that one she ends up with both, but in the other one only with a career (ironically).

But neither option is presented as her direct choice (choosing career or family in the initial decision that sets the different outcomes going) - both are presented as occurring as consequences of chance (i.e. being offered a great job or being offered love and marriage - she didn't turn either of them down in the beginning of either scenario - just didn't have the opportunity for them presented to her by life), so arguably neither option is being presented as a choice that she makes directly, but as chance outcomes resulting from luck that follow a different and much more minor choice (the initial one of which friend to go with for one evening).

Updated On: 11/9/13 at 05:24 PM