ON THE TOWN Reviews — Page 7

David Alvarez, one of the original Billy Elliots on Broadway, joined the cast the night we saw this show last week.

Wow, that's a lot of outrage. He's a swing. They don't want to say something like, "Come see now-grown, Tony Award-winning David Alvarez, but only if someone else is out!"

http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/56409/David-Alvarez

Ahhh the drama of we theater folk! Outrage? Really? Statements of fact and legitimate questions. Nothing more.

And I didn't realize he was a swing, as the "Official" OTT website lists him as an Ensemble member. So, you are right. Why write anything about that? And boo to OTT for potentially misleading Billy Elliott fans into thinking he'll be in every performance. (Not everyone looks at the Playbill Vault.)

I had to laugh at your use of "outrage," which I admit it could seem like it - it's hard to read tone on a computer screen, after all. I laughed because as a show I don't think i could care less about what happens to it. It was, as they say, "meh" to me. But before you inevitably ask, "If you don't care, why did you bother to reply?" It is simple: the business (and it IS a business) side of things fascinates me. A struggling show and/or its fans shouldn't be surprised when that show is overlooked or lacking in buzz when that show's producers/press people are apparently doing little to "keep it out there." Whether I like it or not doesn't matter - I adored The Visit, and it struggles. If the public at large has forgotten it, then it can't be a surprise that it is struggling at the box office, or that a columnist has left it out of an article about the Tony race. And if people aren't lining up to see it now, will Tony nominations REALLY make that much of a difference long-term?

I keep forgetting (as I just pointed out to someone else on another thread) that you can now easily use italics and bold and underlining to emphasize words. My bad!

(And I appreciate the civilized banter we are sharing here! Seriously! )

For my upcoming trip to NYC, I'd been deeply considering seeing On the Town but had been wary of purchasing the tickets (between May 28-June 1) for fear of the show closing before I arrived and leaving me with an empty slot in my schedule. With An American in Paris opening and getting the raves it has, should I just see AAIP and skip OTT?

What the heck is it about?

Like a play within a play? It's about a comedy?

Go with your gut feeling and add to it what you consider to be of personal interest.

When I was researching these same musicals prior to my trip to NYC last week, I found split feelings on almost every show. For every person who thought OTT was a bore and dated, there were others who loved it. For every person who fell asleep in Neverland, there were others who liked it. I found the same to be true with Paris, Visit, Rotten and even OTTC.

The only one that seemed to hold the predominant percentage of favorable reviews from the people on the boards was Fun Home.

I ended up liking them all in their own ways.

The one thing I can say is every show was very well-received by the audience. I concur with the poster who observed much the same.

I'm sure there were individuals in the audience who didn't like this one or that. But overall, the theaters for all the shows I saw were almost completely full in the orchestra and mezzanine and the shows were highly appreciated by the audiences.

For my upcoming trip to NYC, I'd been deeply considering seeing On the Town but had been wary of purchasing the tickets (between May 28-June 1) for fear of the show closing before I arrived and leaving me with an empty slot in my schedule. With An American in Paris opening and getting the raves it has, should I just see AAIP and skip OTT?

See On The Town. It is an absolutely glorious production.

See On The Town!!!

It's so good. Everything about it is perfection.

Don't miss your chance to see this amazing production.

A lot of shows were doing well last week, including On The Town, as it was an Easter week holiday for a lot of folks. I'm sure most shows fell off to their regular levels this week.

That said, I've seen the show five times, with varying degrees of capacity, and I will say even with the theatre half full, you'll never see a crowd show so such much love for a show that you'd swear the theatre was filled to the gods. It's simply a wonderful show that I think really surprises people, who feel they are rewarded for coming into a show without familiarity, a star or a gimmick or fall in love with it.

The first time I saw it I said at intermission that I didn't want to go back in and see the second act--I wanted to go back in and have them start the first act all over again from the beginning and then do the second act.

just noticed this on Ticketmaster, but does anyone know why OTT is dark from May 7 - 12??