MASQUERADE Previews Thread — Page 3

Someone in the Facebook group posted this breakdown (apparently the pairings are indeed the same for each show, contrary to what someone said earlier), I assume matinees follow the same schedule:

700- Kyle and Eryn

715 - Telly and Haile

730 - Hugh and Francesca

745 - Nik and Kaily

800- Clay and Riley

815- Jeff and Anna

Luscious said: "Anyone on the fence about seeing this, please don’t. The fewer audience members, the better. I’d rather it die early on the vine than become a massive hit. In fact, I wish they were selling at least100 fewer tickets per show. Yes, I know, very selfish of me. But here’s the thing,

I don’t care."

Then don't attend and let other people enjoy themselves. I just solved your whole problem.

So we're concerned that this murderer's privacy-invading, gaslighting attempts to romance and eventually force a girl to love him would come across as too creepy if the age gap is too big?

A little unusual that Nik Walker is doing both this and Bull Durham and that they’re opening in such close proximity. He’ll have to take a 6-8 week break starting sometime in September…wonder who will fill in?

Updated On: 8/6/25 at 11:42 AM

ColorTheHours048 said: "Y’all… I don’t even know where to begin on this. I’ll start with the fact that my feet hurt and if you’re thinking of testing out new dress shoes on this, think again. Ouch.

Anyway, this was garbage. Exactly the kind of sanitized, Disney World nonsense I feared it would be and hoped it wouldn’t. But my god, if there has ever been the definition of anticlimax, it’s this show. Every time a scene starts to pick up momentum (used loosely), we’re rushed off down another hallway. Or a staircase. Or an escalator. And not quickly, mind you. Slooooowly. If we were given something to look at while we went, I might have been less peaved. But given that about 40% of the show is walking from scene to scene for way too long, I expected more stuff to look at. It’s clear my ticket price went to rent and salaries; it sure as hell isn’t in the design.

The chandelier? Anticlimactic, and crashes so slowly, you wonder why they even bothered. Why are“All I Ask of You” and “Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again” staged on the roof? Not sure, probably a space thing, but it definitely didn’t please the man who shouted out his window “Shut the hell up!” mid-song. Why is there a 15-minute long carnival scene? I guess they needed 50 people out of the way for other audience to pass.

Save your money. The Phans who were primed to live for it were clutching their chest like they were Christine themselves, but I mostly couldn’t wait for it to be over. Also, good luck finding the coat check at the end of the show. I had to run into a stagehand who opened an unlabeled door for a bunch of us to escape the bar."

Wait. So if someone likes “Disney World nonsense”,they will like this? If so, SOLD.

ColorTheHours048 said: "Y’all… I don’t even know where to begin on this. I’ll start with the fact that my feet hurt and if you’re thinking of testing out new dress shoes on this, think again. Ouch.

Anyway, this was garbage. Exactly the kind of sanitized, Disney World nonsense I feared it would be and hoped it wouldn’t. But my god, if there has ever been the definition of anticlimax, it’s this show. Every time a scene starts to pick up momentum (used loosely), we’re rushed off down another hallway. Or a staircase. Or an escalator. And not quickly, mind you. Slooooowly. If we were given something to look at while we went, I might have been less peaved. But given that about 40% of the show is walking from scene to scene for way too long, I expected more stuff to look at. It’s clear my ticket price went to rent and salaries; it sure as hell isn’t in the design.

The chandelier? Anticlimactic, and crashes so slowly, you wonder why they even bothered. Why are“All I Ask of You” and “Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again” staged on the roof? Not sure, probably a space thing, but it definitely didn’t please the man who shouted out his window “Shut the hell up!” mid-song. Why is there a 15-minute long carnival scene? I guess they needed 50 people out of the way for other audience to pass.

Save your money. The Phans who were primed to live for it were clutching their chest like they were Christine themselves, but I mostly couldn’t wait for it to be over. Also, good luck finding the coat check at the end of the show. I had to run into a stagehand who opened an unlabeled door for a bunch of us to escape the bar."

I don’t know if this is a remotely fair review but it’s hilarious.

Updated On: 8/20/25 at 07:35 AM

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hehehe.

Color The Hours, who was your Phantom and Christine? How were they? The names are the only thing that interests me with this production right now, outside of sheer curiosity.

And the TikTok people were 100% comped in. Anyone who knows anything about PR nowadays knows that's how things are done. Influencers are not naive to the arrangement either; they see the same firms in their inboxes for every show. Every publicist I know will immediately black out an influencer on their media list if they say something negative about a client. The dynamic has totally shifted in the industry.

My Christine was Eryn LeCroy (lovely) and Phantom was Cooper Grodin (singing, fine; acting, bad bad). I was in the 7:00 time slot, and I gather that my Phantom should have been Kyle Scatliffe, but he and his wife just had a baby, so I assume he had the evening off.

Updated On: 8/21/25 at 03:19 PM

7pm Show this evening, Kyle and Erin were my pair (so it does seem that pairs are locked to times, but we did have three understudies on, including for Raoul. But the best part, we had a show stop ON THE ROOF. Sounded like her mic/the piped in score was completely just not working. I could hear her fine enough, but I get how it wasn't feasible to continue. It was maybe 5-7 mins in total, but the way the show is staged and timed, they couldn't just restart the scene, Erin had to wait (semi-awkwardly) and essentially pick up where the music track forced her to on a cue.

While we waited and she stayed "on stage" waiting on a stage manager's direction she made a cute joke about this being the best place to have a show stop, and she maybe wasn't wrong haha.

Also, the Phantom touched me, twice... NBD!

Review in short, I don't love the price tag, but once you get over that, get dressed in your finest clothes and are in the world I think it's an experience worth having. I'd absolutely go again...if only because I NEED to see Hugh Panaro do this.

ER765 said: "What’s the consensus on clothing? I’m going soon and I really don’t want to dress up like crazy LOL

I’ll likely wear a nice top and shorts - casual, but still somewhat dressy. Will I stick out like a sore thumb…?"

Dress comfortably but don't look like a slob. At least try to attempt to adhere to the color code.

ER765 said: "What’s the consensus on clothing? I’m going soon and I really don’t want to dress up like crazy LOL

I’ll likely wear a nice top and shorts - casual, but still somewhat dressy. Will I stick out like a sore thumb…?"

They will put a black cape over you to cover your outfit if they don’t deem it appropriate. I saw it happen with a gentleman in my group. He looked like he wore a bright blue polo and khakis.

I did see someone wear pretty much all very light blues and was kind of shocked they didn’t make him wear the cape. Maybe it was close enough to white?