NY's Ziegfeld DREAMGIRLS Roadshow being *spoiled*! — Page 3

A Road Show isn't a "floor show."

It was, is, and will always be about the film. The souvenir booklet is gorgeous with glossy full color "coffee table" style pictures from the film, and cast and crew bios.

I attended a road show screening in LA yesterday...

There are costumes in the lobby, as well as props and artwork (Dreams and JT Earley album covers, posters, set models and sketches).

In addition to the program, you get a limited edition litho of the poster artwork, numbered with a COA.

Yes, they play (actually BLAST) the soundtrack in the lobby and inside the theatre before the show, and it bugged me too, but most of the people attending didn't seem to be bothered a bit by it.

The film is presented in 2K digital projection. Perfect sound. Each of the road show theatres has a studio technician sent out to test and balance the audio and visual presentation and make sure that it's absolutely flawless.

The seating was reserved, with MANY ushers to help you find your seat.

That's what you get for your 25 bucks... but you don't get a floor show, or hand puppets or a lap dance.

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Updated On: 12/18/06 at 03:25 PM

Doodle -- there are MULTIPLE ushers. I think I had 4 or 5 different ones tell me how to get to my seat. And I'm SO GLAD I went to the advanced screening on the first night. The excitement level was OVER THE TOP! It made the movie that much better.

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Thanks, Hanna...I was a bit worried that even a "polite" crowd could get ugly over seats, and the teenage girl who was guarding when I picked up my tix didnt make me feel very secure :)

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T-shirts, posters and CDs.

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Saw the film tonight in Los Angeles and loved it. But I did laugh when I heard them playing the soundtrack before hand - imagining some of the people on this board frantically peeing while trying to stick their fingers in their ears.

On Sundays 2:00Pm performance One Night Only was the only song played. Over and over and over!!!!!!!

I saw the film again last night here in New York and they had stopped playing the soundtrack alltogether.

Tonight at Ziegfeld the only song I heard was "One Night Only." Twice, three times, I wasn't really counting. Then again, we only entered the theatre at like 5 till 8, so I don't know if/what they were playing before that.

Oh- and the movie started very late, like the last time I looked at the time it was after 8:15pm and it still hadn't started. But from what others around me were saying, it's always been starting that late at the Ziegfeld? And yet we still had problems with people in other people's seats with the latecomers after the movie started.

Oh yeah- and I loved the movie. Loved.