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pagereynolds
Featured Actor Joined: 1/1/22
#125OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/6/25 at 10:41am
yyys said: "Didn't think it would be easy to win lottery but I just won for tomorrow's show..(!)"
Seems unlikely since the drawing is at 3pm.
#126OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/6/25 at 10:45am
Probably won the 10 AM draw. Congrats!
Well, I’ll be. That bird really did it.
#127OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/6/25 at 11:04am
pagereynolds said: "Seems unlikely since the drawing is at 3pm."
According to Playbill, EDSOSLO858 is correct and the first drawing is at 10:00 am. You may want to do a little research next time before you call someone a liar.
#128OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/10/25 at 8:04am
Anyone catch a performance over the weekend. Curious (…and hoping) Washington is improving.
#129OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/10/25 at 6:34pm
Play Esq. said: "Anyone catch a performance over the weekend. Curious (…and hoping) Washington is improving."
I find the lack of reports odd. Is it the ticket prices?
What I want to know is, who is TweetyPie1?
CoffeeBreak
Broadway Star Joined: 3/30/17
theblackumbrella
Stand-by Joined: 5/30/19
#131OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/11/25 at 10:31am
I have a ticket for tomorrow’s matinee March 12th 2pm - front center mezz - row A seat 106. $521 - what I paid. Message me if you are interested.
#132OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/11/25 at 10:33am
With $2,818,297 made for the week ending 3/9, this is now the highest-grossing week for any play in Broadway history.
Well, I’ll be. That bird really did it.
JSquared2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/17
#133OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/11/25 at 11:47am
theblackumbrella said: "I have a ticketfor tomorrow’s matinee March 12th 2pm - front center mezz - row A seat 106. $521 - what I paid. Message me if you are interested."
Your best bet is trying to sell it on the Theatr app. Be prepared to sell it at a loss.
getatme
Leading Actor Joined: 6/14/11
#134OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/11/25 at 4:14pm
Saw this over the weekend after getting very lucky with a great orchestra seat on StubHub for a fraction of the original price.
Overall, it's the definition of middle of the road. There are certainly some good performances -- Gyllenhaal, Burnap, and Sprawl -- but by and large it feels like Leon and the producers went, "Great, we got the stars, we don't need to do anything else."
The set is unattractive and looks like it cost about $50 to put together, the lighting is standard, the direction virtually nonexistent. The event is seeing Gyllenhaal and Washington go toe-to-toe, and unfortunately even that is a bit of a letdown.
Gyllenhaal is very good in his first Shakespeare outing, he has a command of the language and clearly understands what's saying and how it feeds into the larger scope of the show. They've shaved his head (sadly) and he largely wears various forms of army fatigues. He has a more boyish take on Iago that I think works, or could work if his Othello wasn't noticeably about 30 years his senior. Always a treat to see Jake onstage.
Washington is fine. There's nothing outwardly bad about his performance. He has presence and stature, but he mumbles a lot, says many lines barely above a whisper (I had a friend in the rear mezzanine at the same performance and she struggled to hear him at times). I had not seen Denzel in any of his previous stage work, and it was certainly exciting to see him here, though I think his time to play Othello has come and gone. He is 70 and while he looks great for his age, he looks his age. And I don't entirely buy him as an officer regularly fighting in combat alongside the rest of the men in the company. He and Jake have really minimal chemistry and connection, due in some part to the age gap, I think. He has a few moments of true Denzel ACTING, but largely it just made me think of how great Sterling K. Brown could be as Othello.
Andrew Burnap and Kimber Elayne Sprawl really make the most of their time onstage, imbuing supporting roles with depth and feeling that largely lacks across the rest of the production. Both are instantly engaging and likable the second they enter, and Burnap finds humor and levity in surprising ways.
Molly Osborne feels like a by the books Desdemona, I'm a little surprised they were so taken by her audition tape they needed to fly her and house her in NY. She's not bad, but nothing about her performance truly stood out aside from the really bizarre way they've styled and costumed her.
This should feel like a real event, but instead it sort of washes over you and then you leave thinking "okay." I wish that this production had taken more risks because they could've really gotten away with doing anything and not had to worry about making money with Denzel and Jake attached. But instead we get a projection letting us know this production is arbitrarily set in October 2028 and that's really it. There's no perspective, there's no point of view. It's just 2 famous people doing Othello.
Dreamboy3
Stand-by Joined: 10/8/18
#135OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/12/25 at 8:00am
Can anyone say whether Leon is doing his usual thing — having the actors speak so fast as to make the lines unintelligible? I don’t think I’ll ever see another play he has directed given this tendency. Even when his productions are relatively successful - like Purlie Victrious — I still missed half the dialogue.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#136OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/13/25 at 8:12pm
Can anyone that's been recently given me a run time? I have a friend that's claiming it's running 3.5 hours but everything I've seen claims 2.5.
TIA.
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Meyerschultz
Chorus Member Joined: 6/17/09
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#138OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/14/25 at 12:40am
Thanks!
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#139OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/14/25 at 7:57am
NY Post critic "uninvited" from Othello after gripe about $900 ticket prices
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#140OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/14/25 at 8:34am
Hopefully NYPost will still have at least $900 in its budget to buy its critic a ticket to see Othello and review it for NYPost's readers. The seat may not be orchestra center row G though.
#141OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/14/25 at 8:46am
The article states that the Post has bought Johnny Oleksinski a ticket to review the production. In his original column, he makes the point that most critics don't consider cost when writing their reviews:
Generally, critics, who go for free, don’t factor the cost for the general public into their opinions. To be consumer advocates, some feel, cheapens what they do. They believe they are the spawn of Aristotle. George Bernard Shaw 2: Electric Boogaloo.
They are mistaken.
If Broadway is going to charge more than Le Bernardin for a less filling experience, reviewers should hold them to the fire for it.
Because mediocre for $1000 is a lot less appetizing than horrible for $100.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
MemorableUserName
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/27/19
#142OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/14/25 at 8:52am
Yeesh, with the odious Post, the insuffable Oleksinski, and anyone who would say this:
The production didn’t comment, but an insider said: “The play’s the thing, and a seat to Othello is worth the ka-ching.”
Everyone involved in this story seems terrible.
MasterThespian 2
Stand-by Joined: 3/22/22
#143OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/14/25 at 11:30am
To the folks who have seen this in the last night or so, has it gotten any better? Is Denzel still struggling? Are too many actors still mumbling and speaking too fast? Are audience members still laughing during the supposedly tense moments?
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#144OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/14/25 at 12:25pm
It's the Post, they only employ garbage people.
Regarding Denzel, that's just how he talks. He mumbles. He did that when I saw it and my friend reported he was doing that earlier this week as well.
lila12
Chorus Member Joined: 8/3/16
#145OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/15/25 at 2:36am
getatme said: "t's just 2 famous people doing Othello."
Saw this tonight and this is a fantastic summary.
Musigamist
Understudy Joined: 2/5/23
#146OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/15/25 at 9:10am
With $921 Seats, a Star-Powered ‘Othello’ Breaks a Box Office Record
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/theater/othello-broadway-tickets-denzel-washington-gyllenhaal.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4.r5sP.nY_EQD35W708&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#147OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/15/25 at 1:08pm
Can anyone tell me when the intermission takes place? Thanks!
MemorableUserName
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/27/19
#148OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/15/25 at 4:19pm
The petty Olensinki and the Post posted his review early since his press ticket was canceled. He predictably didn't like it.
‘Othello’ review: Denzel Washington’s dull Broadway show isn’t worth a $921 ticket
“Othello” opens next Sunday on Broadway. But The Post has decided to review the show a week early after the production rescinded critic Johnny Oleksinski’s ticket because he wrote a column blasting their $921 prices. That’s OK. We bought our own.
#149OTHELLO Previews
Posted: 3/15/25 at 4:46pm
That review though, does sum up basically everything I’ve heard from friends who’ve seen it. Getting really antsy myself to get over to the Barrymore soon to see it, myself.
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