Monsoon Wedding at St. Ann's Warehouse Previews

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

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?

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?

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

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