Monsoon Wedding at St. Ann's Warehouse Previews

[bungalowbob2]

Posted: 5/7/23 at 4:48pm

I didn't see a preview thread for this yet. Previews started last night at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn. Has anybody seen it yet?

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 5/8/23 at 12:16am

Excited to go to this and curious to hear if anyone had experience with the TodayTix rush as well!

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 11:33am

Saw the second preview on Sunday, and I thought it was really rough. I liked the music well enough I suppose, but pretty much everything else came across as sloppy and amateurish to me, and definitely not like a show that they've been working on for 6 years.


 

Updated On: 5/23/23 at 11:33 AM

[KJisgroovy]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 11:49am

This such a bizarre project. It got fairly terrible reviews in California and this production came very quickly on the heels of that, not really enough time to improve things. And the source material is SO ripe for musicalization. 

Do we think Mira Nair's involvement tanked this? She's obviously an amazing film director... but... they probably needed a theater voice? 

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 11:58am

Well, the Berkeley run was in 2017, so they've had plenty of time to fix it, and, yes, the direction is poor. 

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 1:49pm

Hate to hear these poor reviews so far. We bought tickets hoping for so much better, and before it sold out. We have a few weeks until we're supposed to see it, is it worth trying to cancel? 

[ASOOS04]

Posted: 5/9/23 at 2:14pm

This was easily one of the worst productions I have seen post- pandemic and high on the list of worst ever. Totally a mess with a lot of that being the fault of the director but also owing to largely amateurish awkward and uninspired performances.

 

[Up In One]

Posted: 5/10/23 at 1:04pm

After seeing this underwhelming production I read the reviews for the 2017 Berkley Rep production and am flabbergasted they didn’t heed the consensus, those six year old criticisms still hold. Not sure if it’s ego or the commitment to keeping the production authentic but the show feels as if it was written and directed by creatives who are out of touch with the form and perhaps this is what passes for musical theater in India.  Sad because I had high hopes and was bored out of my mind. St.Anne’s usually uses their spaces very creatively, this show is staged as if it were in a Broadway sized proscenium but it’s wedged sideways into the room with a three sided audience configuration. 75% of the audience is on the two sides and most of them are very far from the stage. The actors play the show to the 25% in the 5 rows in front of them. 

Updated On: 5/10/23 at 01:04 PM

[jbm2]

Posted: 5/13/23 at 10:40am

Wow- I am only in the city for a limited time. Thinking of skipping this show now and seeing something else…

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 5/23/23 at 1:36pm

Saw the show Saturday, but really didn't know what to think about it. I was annoyed that, like others have said, it was staged to the lucky third of the audience in the center sections. I was also shocked by how much it relied on the video wall, when half the audience could never get the full experience. There were some really nice moments here and there, but so many scenes, so many characters, a couple of questionable casting choices, and a huge left turn towards a side character, just left me so confused.

Thankfully, there's Jesse Green's NY Times new review to help verbalize it for me:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/theater/monsoon-wedding-review.html#commentsContainer

 

[Fan123]

Posted: 11/29/23 at 2:28am

The show is apparently going to Mumbai/Bombay in late 2024.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhHrzjRVDWk