Lucky Guy Previews Begin Tonight!!

[Scottsacto]

Posted: 3/1/13 at 2:19am

Anyone Going this weekend? Kind of Curious About this One!
Lucky Guy

[lachlanw88]

Posted: 3/1/13 at 11:00am

I am going ! Can't wait, big Tom Hanks fan hoping to get a couple of autographs to !

[Skeff56]

Posted: 3/1/13 at 11:36am

I am going tonight. My expectations are somewhat high.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 3/1/13 at 12:12pm

I am going next Wednesday, and for some reason, I do not have high expectations for this one. Hope I am proven wrong!

[broadwaydevil]

Posted: 3/1/13 at 11:27pm

Hope to hear some reports. Out of curiosity, I swung by at around 2 and was told rush was sold out after it went on sale and that standing room wouldn't be offered until after opening night.

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 3/1/13 at 11:37pm

Did you think the rush would have been sold out before it went on sale?

[April Saul]

Posted: 3/1/13 at 11:39pm

Come on, Clyde! It's late, give the poster a break More importantly, can anybody tell us how the first preview was ?

[BIG BALONEY]

Posted: 3/2/13 at 12:04am

Went to Broadhurst box office and was surprised at the cost of tickets. The rear mezz.for Lucky Guy was $87. on weekends and $ 82.weeknights. Orchestra was $152. I think I will wait for the reviews on this one.I am beginning to rethink paying these prices for star shows.

[After Eight]

Posted: 3/2/13 at 12:05am

I was going to go straight to sleep,, but since April asked,

It's so-so. A biography-drama from the same mold as Lombardi and Magic/Bird. It's slightly better written than those two, but only slightly. It's more slickly structured and directed.

It recounts the career of reporter Mike McAlary. Some events are enacted, with a phalanx of fellow reporters acting as a sort of Greek chorus, filling in the blanks regarding time, place, and the events themselves. Too much is told, actually, rather than shown.

The play's major defect is its inability to bring to individual life either its characters or the milieu in which it is set. That goes most of all for the main character, who emerges as little more than an affable guy with ambition and talent. He remains fairly bland throughout.

Tom Hanks is an affable and accomplished actor, and that's how he plays the character. He needed a more complex role to play, but he's more than adequate to the task given. In any case, it's better than those other star vehicles, Three Days of Rain and A Steady Rain.

Running time: 2 1/2 hours, one intermision.




Updated On: 3/2/13 at 12:05 AM

[jbm2]

Posted: 3/2/13 at 12:10am

After Right- is it worth the price of the tickets to see this one?

[After Eight]

Posted: 3/2/13 at 12:21am

Jbm,

Don't know how I can answer that. Everyone has a different sense of what something is worth.

As a show, would you say that Lombardi or Magic /Bird was worth the ticket price? If so, then this would be worth it, too.

Did you feel Julia Roberts and Jackman/Craig's shows were worth the ticket price? If so, and you're a fan of Tom Hanks, then this one would be worth it too.

[broadwaydevil]

Posted: 3/2/13 at 12:22am

Did you think the rush would have been sold out before it went on sale?

Touche.

[April Saul]

Posted: 3/2/13 at 12:47am

Aww, devil, I knew what you meant. Thanks for posting, After Eight; I was hoping this show would have a general rush but at those prices, I will probably pass. I did see both "Rain" productions, but I think I have finally gotten over wanting to see a famous actor in a not-so-amazing-show! And there's a lot out there right now, can't take it all in...

[broadwaydevil]

Posted: 3/2/13 at 1:14am

Thanks for the review, After Eight. I guess Whizzer missed this one or I assume it would be up by now.

April - thanks for the support but in retrospect it was a pretty dumb flub.

[Skeff56]

Posted: 3/2/13 at 3:15am

I agree with After Eight. My expectations were lowered, but there's still a month before the opening to work on this play.

I liked Christopher McDonald as lawyer Ed Hayes.

One may be lost on the NYC references to events and people from the 1980's and 1990's despite the use of TV news clips and projections of newspaper headlines.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 3/2/13 at 5:22pm

Mike McAlary lived in my town and attended mass in my parish. In fact, I sang at his funeral.

In addition, a former student of mine is in the cast of this show.

I think I'll be seeing this one.

[kidbroadway2]

Posted: 3/2/13 at 5:44pm

I once ate at a restaurant that Tom Hanks was eating at. In fact, we both had the same soup.

I think I'll be seeing this one.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 3/2/13 at 7:55pm

Soup can nake for a true bonding experience.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 3/2/13 at 8:25pm

I sat in a movie theatre where a Tom Hanks movie once screened. I am still on the fence about seeing this.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 3/5/13 at 12:25pm

Oh, my bad. It had fallen down. Here it is.

So, still looks like no one's seen this?

[WhizzerMarvin]

Posted: 3/5/13 at 12:35pm

I'm going on Wednesday and will give my thoughts then. There was a massive crowd on 44th last night trying to catch a glimpse of Hanks coming out the stage door.

[newintown]

Posted: 3/5/13 at 12:42pm

Does anyone else find it potentially problematic that this is a never-performed play by a dead playwright who never wrote a successful play?

I haven't heard that anyone is ghosting re-writes, but don't you think in a situation like this, they'd be... necessary?

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 3/5/13 at 12:49pm

Excellent, Whizzer. We all look forward to it!

newintown, one might suppose that. One might even rightly suppose that. But many folks have a weird reverence (that I’ll never understand) for Nora Ephron that faileth all human understanding, given that, as a writer, she’s something of a simp.

I’m not yet interested enough in this project to see it for myself, but I am curious about the success of the cast.

[newintown]

Posted: 3/5/13 at 12:51pm

She is sort of la Erma Bombeck du Cinéma, isn't she?

[ACL2006]

Posted: 3/5/13 at 2:25pm

anyone else suprised they've started selling SRO from the first preview. Even Book of Mormon didn't start selling SRO until about three weeks into previews.