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Reading these comments, all we can do is laugh, right? Next up we'll be scrutinizing their cocktail menu.

Such an entertaining thread. The things you learn on here...from one member’s fondness for whorehouses to another’s brother husbands to another thinking the biggest problem between Daniel Radcliffe and Jennifer Lopez together would be the perceived age difference and not that one has proven himself a good actor and the other...is certainly beautiful.

Updated On: 7/5/19 at 10:58 AM

I didn't really even notice the age difference when I saw it in Boston. And if Christian reads younger than Satine, why not? Christian is the innocent ingenue of the piece, so I can see him storyline-wise falling for an older beauty as charismatic as she.

If you buy tickets at the box office for this show, are the Ticketmaster service fees avoided or reduced?

poisonivy2 said: "Uh ... my mom has seen the film and liked it. Would this be good momsical material? Anything too risqué? My mom wants to see something but has dismissed Oklahoma!"

I like your mom.

How old is your mom? I am 68, saw the show twice in Boston, loved it despite some weaknesses. I was not familiar with at least a third of the songs, some apparently huge hits, so I am not the ideal target audience, I suspect. Have tickets for 10/10 and cannot wait. It is exhilarating.

poisonivy2 said: "Jarethan said: "How old is your mom? I am 68, saw the show twice in Boston, loved it despite some weaknesses. I was not familiar with at leasta third of the songs, some apparently huge hits, so I am not the ideal target audience, I suspect. Have tickets for 10/10 and cannot wait. Itis exhilarating."

My mom is mid-70's, politically very liberal but in terms of entertainment she likes wholesome entertainment with lots of singing and dancing. She did a hard pass on the Oklahoma! She saw Moulin Rouge when it came out with me and liked it, but I understand the song list for the musical is very different than the movie. My mom doesn't like really loud, electronica music."

My dad is in that age bracket (and my mom is not quite a decade younger, in the same boat) and aside from Maroon 5 (ugh) doesn't listen to much modern music. He thoroughly enjoyed the show in the Boston tryouts, and I wouldn't call the music for this one "electronica." There's definitely a mix of 1980s (maybe 1970s for a couple?) to the present, but nothing that wasn't a mainstream pop/rock song in that era. The closest you might get to that is the Bad Romance/Toxic Act II opener (which I'm guessing is the same as in Boston), but I think the choreo and staging for that scene would really impress your mom even if the music style there isn't her favorite! Overall, though, I think you'd be safe taking her!

Jordan Catalano said: "Just getting in from tonight’s performance. Having seen the show last year, there were definitely things I liked and quite a few that I didn’t like about it and I had been disheartened to read not much has changed in a year. But I really was pleasantly surprised tonight at how much I enjoyed it! The show obviously is a sumptuous treat to look at and never leaves you wanting for something to look at. I was most surprised by the chemistry between Olivo & Tveit, which I found non existent in Boston but was excellent here.
I still wish some of the music was changed and that “Firework” was taken out and Satine given back “One Day I’ll Fly Away”, but strangely it didn’t bother me as much tonight as it did before.

I will say my one very big complaint is the ending. Satine is robbed of a proper death scene by the awful writing there. “Christian, by the way I’m dying. Sorry but write me well, K?”
is basically what she’s given before she dies. I want to cry at hat moment and the writing as it is now completely robs me of that. Why couldn’t they sing a reprise of “Come What May” or “Your Song” together right there? That really just pissed me off, actually. But other than that the show is greatly tightened up and trimmed, which solved a lot of the problems it had originally. I’m looking forward to seeing it after opening and hoping for a few more tweaks between now and then, but as everyone else has said - this is going to run for years."

I'm always struck when people's opinions change. (I haven't seen the musical but liked the film and would certainly like this to be good.) Chemistry can be a tough thing to pull off, because it's intangible, so good for them. The ending seems like it ought to be easy to fix. It puzzles me that they haven't gotten to that, because it's been one of the complaints many people on this board - even those who liked the show - have had with it.

Fan123 said: "For those who've seen the show, would you mind providing some more detail on how the showstopping 'Bad Romance' is used storyline-wise? Is it a show-within-the-show performance by the Moulin Rouge performers, or a Satine/Duke number, or something else?I'm curious. Thanks!"

it has absolutely nothing to do with the story. It has 2 minor characters (Robyn Hurder’s character is not even in the first act) coming out of no where and hijacking the show. There is no story here it’s just a framework to hang songs on. This is a regression to the days before the “book” musical to when shows were reviews of popular songs with a “story” fabricated to somehow tie them together. The girl next to me was crying at the ending. Really. This makes Bright Star look like high art.