Need help choosing a show!

#1

Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/10/09 at 8:21pm

Hello all!

I am going to be in New York next week and have time to see one show and I need help picking.

Here are the shows that I am considering:

Next to Normal
Billy Elliot
Exit the King
Blithe Spirit


Thanks so much!

#2

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/10/09 at 8:30pm

See Next To Normal!

#3

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/10/09 at 8:31pm

Blithe Spirit, there is no excuse for missing Angela.

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#4

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/10/09 at 8:38pm

Billy will be going for awhile. The rest are available at TKTS.

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#5

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/10/09 at 8:38pm

It would help to know what shows are among your favorites...but without any additional info I would suggest Next to Normal.

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#6

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/10/09 at 8:40pm

I'll repeat, THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR NOT SEEING ANGELA.

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#7

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/10/09 at 8:42pm

Billy Elliot.

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#8

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/10/09 at 8:46pm

Next To Normal. Without a single doubt, Next To Normal. You will not be disappointed.

#9

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/10/09 at 8:47pm

Blithe Spirit

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#10

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/10/09 at 8:48pm

Haven't seen Next to Normal, but all the others are great.

I would have to say Exit the King though. Blithe Spirit if you have a chance to see two. Billy Eilliot is great, but it's gonna be around for a while, and it's not a show with a performance or actor that is a MUST SEE.

#11

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/10/09 at 9:03pm

Next to Normal

#12

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/10/09 at 9:05pm

HAIR!

#13

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/10/09 at 9:15pm

Thanks so much for all the responses so far!

Quickly, off the top of my head some of my favorites are:

Sound of Music
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Company
Grey Gardens
Hello Dolly!
Light in the Piazza
Jersey Boys
Coast of Utopia


Edit: Should I skip out on Billy? Is that general consensus that the show will be around for a while and it doesn't really matter which cast?

Updated On: 4/10/09 at 09:15 PM

#14

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/10/09 at 9:41pm

Next to Normal or Exit the King

and yes billy is good but a it is expensive and b it will be around for years

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Updated On: 4/10/09 at 09:41 PM

#15

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/11/09 at 12:34am

#16

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/11/09 at 3:26am

Next to Normal! I saw Billy and N2N in the same weekend and, although Billy was great, I enjoyed N2N a lot more. And, as ratherbewhaling said, Billy's prices are crazy!!

#17

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/11/09 at 10:50am

From your favorites it sounds like you like things a bit more on the straightforward/traditional side...so I'd say skip Next to Normal.

Also, I agree BE will be around forever...so I'd go with Exit or Blithe, leaning to Blithe if you like Angela Lansbury at all...because she's a rock star in that show!

#18

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/11/09 at 3:18pm

Thanks so much for all your help!

I've taken Billy out of the running so now I am between:

Exit the King
Next to Normal
Blithe Spirit


(What about Waiting For Godot? Is that worth it)

Anybody have anymore thoughts?

#19

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/11/09 at 3:22pm

My vote would go to Next to Normal.

#20

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/11/09 at 4:53pm

Alright.

Next to Normal or Exit the King?

#21

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/11/09 at 5:15pm

Next To Normal all the way!

#22

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/11/09 at 6:13pm

I'd say put Billy Elliot back on your list.
Yes, you'd have to pay full price, and it will be around for years, but here's your chance to see perhaps the best new musical to come along in years early in its run, and then go back home and watch the Tonys show and brag to everyone "hey, I was there".
It's a moost see!

#23

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/11/09 at 6:17pm

Since we're all just confusing you now, I say you just go to TKTS and go to whatever show has the best seats available!

#24

re: Need help choosing a show!

Posted: 4/11/09 at 6:28pm

Next to Normal!

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