New Follies discount!

[madbrian]

New Follies discount!#1

Posted: 9/22/11 at 9:54am

Folks have been pining for a new discount, and this should make them happy:
Follies

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[dshnookie]

New Follies discount! #2

Posted: 9/22/11 at 10:23am

if you live in the city, you can save a little more by getting your tickets at TKTS when it's 50% - since opening night it's been wavering between 40% and 50% depending on the day.

[nealb1]

New Follies discount! #2

Posted: 9/22/11 at 10:44am

Damn. When I saw this thread, I was hoping the discount would go further into Nov. Playbill also has the same discount, ending on 11/6. I'll be there the weekend before Thanksgiving. Just have to wait.

I'm seeing the show on Sat night again, and I'm so looking forward to it.

[uncageg]

New Follies discount! #3

Posted: 9/22/11 at 11:31am

Theatermania still has mid mezz for 65.00. I am glad I got in on that 1st discount. I paid something like 46.00 for mid mezz.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[binau]

New Follies discount! #4

Posted: 10/2/11 at 9:19pm

I'm surprised that a discount hasn't appeared on Broadwaybox etc..the advance for the upcoming week is the lowest I've ever seen for the show so far. I guess they know what they're doing right?

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

[aasjb4ever]

New Follies discount! #5

Posted: 10/2/11 at 9:26pm

Well BroadwayBox is just a compilation of all of the current discounts from various sites, so they wouldn't have their own discounts.

[TracyLord]

New Follies discount! #6

Posted: 10/2/11 at 9:44pm

I don't need to see this show again. I don't need to see this show again. I don't need to see this show again.

[PalJoey]

New Follies discount! #7

Posted: 10/2/11 at 10:28pm

I just bought two house seats at full price for Friday the 28th. I'm going with my first boyfriend. We saw the original production together on our last date, in September 1971. I was 15, an aspiring actor; he was 17, a beautiful ballet dancer. We had been inseparable all summer long...that is, until the last production, when the choreographer decided it would be great fun to come between us. Which he did.

Brokenhearted, I arranged that when we were back in the city, we would meet and he would finally see my beloved. Follies. I had gone and on about it. It would be my final gift to him.

We didn't see each other again for 37 years. We each thought the other was dead, but we found out we were not. I called him up and said, Wanna go see Follies? We haven't seen it together in over 40 years."

When we found each other again, we were each thinking, "No! Don't look at me." He's very aware that he no longer has a "dancer's body." I'm very aware that I'm probably the only person in the world who still sees him the way he was. He still sees me as a cute, smart, talented boy. (I'll take that!) The "Bens we'll never be..." We remember each other as those Bens. We even think we loved them once.

But it feels like just yesterday when we saw the show 40 years ago. Just yesterday when I told him how much I loved the show--and how much more I loved him. And just yesterday when he broke my heart.

As Phyllis would say, "Oh, Buddy, that was a million years ago!"

We'll be double-dating that night, my first bf and I...along with the ghosts of our old 15- and 17-year-old selves.

Updated On: 10/3/11 at 10:28 PM

[RainbowJude]

FOLLIES Experience#8

Posted: 10/2/11 at 11:01pm

Quite sincerely, that's one of the most touching stories I've read.

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[charlesjguiteau]

FOLLIES Experience #9

Posted: 10/3/11 at 2:52pm

Wow, Joey, I think nothing cements a life-long love affair with a particular musical so much as having had your own heart broken back when you first saw the show. When you and your first love revisit Follies this month, you'll be like a walking talking doppelganger for the very characters onstage.

And I think how did any of us survive the pain and longing of unrequited loves we went through at the age of 15 or 20? We sang torch songs written by Sondheim, of course.

[PalJoey]

FOLLIES Experience #10

Posted: 10/3/11 at 3:14pm

Well...torch songs and "Could I Leave You?"

[jacobtsf]

FOLLIES Experience #11

Posted: 10/3/11 at 3:16pm

PalJoey- I know I have said it before, but thank you for being such an amazing writer and sharing your gifts with all of us here. You are able to bring such powerful emotions out of the words you write.

David walked into the valley With a stone clutched in his hand He was only a boy But he knew someone must take a stand There will always be a valley Always mountains one must scale There will always be perilous waters Which someone must sail -Into the Fire Scarlet Pimpernel

[steven carter]

FOLLIES Experience #12

Posted: 10/3/11 at 9:58pm

Pal Joey: It's insights like that that make this board worthwhile. I hope you had a wonderful night.
And it's exactly that interaction between our real lives, and the art created by Sondheim (et all) that is the reason so many of us are theatre lovers. You understand your own life better because you watch what is enacted onstage. And it's different when one is 15 or 17 vs. when one is 50. Not better or worse. The more complex the work (and "Follies" qualifies here) the more likely that it will resonate differently at different times in one's life. It's not "nostalgia"-that's too simple. It's something far deeper. And I'm not just talking about "Follies"....many plays and musicals will reward rewatching through the years.