CONFIRMED: Mescal to bring Frecknall-helmed STREETCAR to New York- Page 10

[yyys]

Posted: 2/27/25 at 10:13am

go to todaytix app NOW:

First Row Cushion Seats – $87 floor seats right at the foot of the stage

These tickets are insanely limited and will go fast. Don’t wait—grab yours now and see this iconic play up close.

Updated On: 2/27/25 at 10:13 AM

[yyys]

Posted: 2/27/25 at 10:13am

bump

[Wick3]

Posted: 2/27/25 at 10:42am

Wow thx for the intel. Managed to get a $87 ticket!

[CoffeeBreak]

Posted: 2/27/25 at 11:24am

Did they sell all the dates at once?

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 2/27/25 at 11:26am

CoffeeBreak said: "Did they sell all the dates at once?"

Yep, all dates were on sale, I snagged one for first week of April

[Voter]

Posted: 2/27/25 at 12:06pm

Are they really gone already? Or I don't know where to look?

[yyys]

Posted: 2/27/25 at 12:51pm

they are all gone - email from todaytix went out around 10 am.

[Voter]

Posted: 3/2/25 at 3:24am

Anyone catch the first couple previews or dress rehearsal?

[BroadwayGirl107]

Posted: 3/2/25 at 8:46am

I saw this yesterday. I thought it was absolutely stunning. I have not yet seen the Cabaret revival so this was my intro to Rebecca Frecknall, and now I need to see everything she does. Stripping this play down this way somehow made it feel more carnal & more poetic than I’ve seen it before. 

 

Patsy Ferran is the star here in the cast. She is cast against type for Blanche—small, brunette, unglamorous—and she is fragile, wounded, yet also defiant, manic. I’d always considered Cate Blanchett’s Blanche to be one of the greatest performances I’ve seen, but Ferran’s unique take here brings such clarity to Blache’s tragedy here. She rapidly fires off dialogue and is constantly grasping for a new trick to pull out of her bag to keep telling herself & others some story of comfort to hold onto her own sanity . One wonders if she’s ever been a Southern belle that’s now faded, or if that’s even now a story she tells herself to feel something beautiful existed at some point in her life. Ferran is relatively young, and reads young, and somehow her Blanche feels like a wounded feral child, and I found the payoff to be frightening and tragic. This, in my mind, should be a star making performance for her. At intermission & while leaving most of the murmurs I heard from other audience members were, indeed, about how wonderful she is here.

 

Anjana Vasan and Dawne Walcott are both fantastic as Stella and Mitch. I felt their performances really grounded the piece and the extreme woundedness of Ferran and animal-like Stanley Mescal plays would not work as well without them. Vasan’s final moment is particularly harrowing. 

 

Paul Mescal is good. I enjoyed his physicality and the unpredictable explosiveness of his performance. I admit I was considerably distracted by his accent/voice work throughout the entire piece. It felt very put-on to me & I’m not sure he does a convincing American accent. His voice felt flattened and disconnected & took me out of it. He worked the least for me here, but his choices are strong. I said to my friend it was a bit like watching the best, most handsome guy in one’s drama class play Stanley—incredibly talented, and a good performance, but in general it feels like he doesn’t quite fit the part. In spite of his choices he still reads like a sensitive, boyish guy playing at this part. His casting against type doesn’t work for me quite as well as Ferran’s does—but don’t mistake me, he is quite good. 

All in all I thought this was one of the most worthwhile things I’ve seen this season, and more than lived up to the hype. 

 

[Wick3]

Posted: 3/2/25 at 11:48am

I saw the first preview on Friday evening and overall it's in pretty good shape.

Note I've never read the play nor seen the play/movie before but thankfully I went with someone who was very familiar with it and I asked him several questions during intermission. Before watching this play, I just assumed Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran's characters were husband/wife or boyfriend/girlfriend given some of the marketing I've seen. Obviously I was wrong!

Set is raised on the stage so if you're sitting in front orchestra, you won't really see the audience members sitting on the floor cushioned seats released by todaytix a few days ago. BTW, those seats were a great deal! 

I think there were sound issues during the first 5-10 mins of the play since I found them inaudible. I could hear them speaking but I just didn't understand the words they were saying. I also thought the music/drums were too loud in the beginning but I understand that's what previews are for. Later on I was fine.

Now I need to watch the 1951 film before I see this play again in April. 

Great acting and try to see it if you can.

[Lauren2]

Posted: 3/3/25 at 10:06pm

Updated On: 3/6/25 at 10:06 PM

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 3/3/25 at 10:32pm

Lauren2 said: "Got to say I’m pretty disappointed! Thought when I bought front row we would be close to the stage. Didn’t realize the stage is like 10 feet away and there are people that are seated in cushions in front of us. SMH."


You will survive this. Somehow. Have faith.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 5:08am

Lauren2 said: "Got to say I’m pretty disappointed! Thought when I bought front row we would be close to the stage. Didn’t realize the stage is like 10 feet away and there are people that are seated in cushions in front of us. SMH."

 

Well, the people on cushions thing was only announced within the last week, so no one that bought front row Tix knew this.

 

But how did either of your "disappointments" actually effect what you thought of the show? SMDH

 

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 7:39am

Quick aside, but Frecknall’s production of Moon for the Misbegotten with Michael Shannon and Ruth Wilson at the  Almedia just went on sale. Very smooth process, unlike the last few BAM on-sales. 

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 8:09am

dramamama611 said: "Lauren2 said: "Got to say I’m pretty disappointed! Thought when I bought front row we would be close to the stage. Didn’t realize the stage is like 10 feet away and there are people that are seated in cushions in front of us. SMH."




Well, the people on cushions thing was only announced within the last week, so no one that bought front row Tix knew this.



But how did either of your "disappointments" actually effect what you thought of the show? SMDH

"

anyone who bought a front row ticket to find out that it is not the front row any longer has every right to be disappointed and express it. Without being mocked for it.

[yyys]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 8:34am

but Mescal is not in it?  That was the reason BAM website couldn't handle it.

Play Esq. said: "Quick aside, but Frecknall’s production of Moon for the Misbegotten with Michael Shannon and Ruth Wilson at the Almedia just went on sale. Very smooth process, unlike the last few BAM on-sales."

 

[BroadwayGirl107]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 9:47am

I'm assuming the person who is disappointed their front row seat was not front row might be young and seeing theater for the first time, so I don't think we need to mock them. 

However I'd offer up to this person: 10 feet from the stage is incredibly close, and the cushion seats are on the floor, so this should not have affected your view of the show or your actual proximity to the action at all. You still had a better seat than those on the floor (how uncomfortable to sit on the floor like that for 3 hours). It's incredibly lucky to get the seats you did, and I'd reflect on whether or not your enjoyment of the show was impacted at all: this show was difficult to get tickets for at all, and theater is not like a concert--the actors are not engaging with or looking at the audience, so being in the technical front row likely wouldn't make a difference. 

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 10:26am

yyys said: "but Mescal is not in it? That was the reason BAM websitecouldn't handle it.

I only bring it up as this will be a quick sell out like Streetcar.  Waited about 30 minutes in line but once in, all went quite smoothly, albeit with limited inventory. 

[dramamama611]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 11:07am

I wasn't mocking (well, I didn't INTEND to) but my point is: what did they think of the show. If they had actually talked about the show itself, I wouldn't have even mentioned the rest.   Those two things are hardly a critique.

 

To me this was no different then those that review a show but spend 99% of the time to talk about stage door.

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/4/25 at 11:18am

I don't necessarily believe the poster has seen the show yet. The previous poster noted, "Set is raised on the stage so if you're sitting in front orchestra, you won't really see the audience members sitting on the floor cushioned seats released by todaytix a few days ago."

The next poster replied that they thought they had purchased the front row and were disappointed to learn there would be people in front of them.

There was no indication they didn't think they would survive (as the next poster sneered). They were simply expressing disappointment that their experience would be different than they expected. That's it.

[jared123]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 4:05pm

Has anyone gotten a lottery or cancellation ticket?   Where were your seats?

[JSquared2]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 4:38pm

Lauren2 said: "Got to say I’m pretty disappointed! Thought when I bought front row we would be close to the stage. Didn’t realize the stage is like 10 feet away and there are people that are seated in cushions in front of us. SMH."

How do you ever manage to make it through a day with such an overwhelming sense of entitlement??

SMH

 

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 3/6/25 at 5:00pm

Lauren2 said: "Got to say I’m pretty disappointed! Thought when I bought front row we would be close to the stage. Didn’t realize the stage is like 10 feet away and there are people that are seated in cushions in front of us. SMH."

Smacking your head because people on the floor way below you somehow ruined the actual show for you, and you didn't do any research on the venue beforehand regarding the seating/stage?

K. 

Updated On: 3/6/25 at 05:00 PM

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/12/25 at 12:35am

NYT: Green mostly criticizes the direction

A Ferocious Paul Mescal Stars in a Brutal ‘Streetcar’

Desire comes a distant second to violence in a Brooklyn revival of the Tennessee Williams classic.

Yet the directorial interventions everywhere else overwhelm that delicacy; this is a “Streetcar” as if staged by Stanley. I don’t just mean that they are violent, but that they are glaring and obvious. Too many of Frecknall’s ideas seem to come from random spins of a Rolodex of contemporary staging clichés: the cast arriving as if for rehearsal, the soaking rainstorm, the dancer miming the ghost of dead love, the onstage drummer underlining what doesn’t need underlining.

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/12/25 at 12:37am

Holdren in Vulture is a rave.

 

Mescal and Ferran in Streetcar: Yes, Yes, Magic!

Rebecca Frecknall’s production at BAM has it all.

https://www.vulture.com/article/theater-review-streetcar-named-desire-williams-frecknall-mescal-ferran.html