On The Twentieth Century Previews — Page 9

That's so strange! Ripple down effect? Danger? What exactly were they talking about?

EDIT: Danger because of the moving parts, I understand now.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/ON-THE-TWENTIETH-CENTURY-Cancels-Saturday-Night-Show-Due-to-Ill-Peter-Gallagher-Kristin-Chenoweth-Performs-for-Sold-Out-Audience-20150221

Updated On: 2/22/15 at 08:22 AM

Singing Smile was just a slap in the face to the suffering audience. A full house at 8:00 P.M. was told there would be no show would have caused a riot 120 years ago.The theater would have been burned down and those actors that didn't flee would have been tar and feathered. Ah ! The good olde days.

As far as anyone knows is today's matinee still on or will they not offer any information until the audience has arrived and taken their seats? Seems like this would be an great opportunity for the dopes at Roundabout to take to their Twitter or Facebook accounts and offer some information or reassurance.

Naw... not Roundabout.

if they do decide to pull a Pal Joey, I'm sure Matthew Risch is available. Now that he and Mantello are no longer together, I'll wager he's got a lot of free time...

Call Scott Bakula.

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The show is back on with Peter's understudy today.

glad the show was able to go on today. They must have been rehearsing with James Moye all morning(& Ben Crawford who u/s Moye's role).

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I'd love to hear what Jeff McCarthy's voice could do with the material, personally.

I image what they meant with "ripple down effect" is, that it doesn't only concern Peter Gallagher's understudy.James Moye is an understudy, not a stand-by, a swing must be able to go into his normal track as well. Maybe that posed a problem in addition James not being fully rehearsed yet.
Like somebody said before, I assume they rehearsed until the very last minute last night, trying to full it of, but eventually had to admit it wasn't possible. Of course that's terrible for the audience but I wouldn't want to be in the understudies shoes.
I heard he rehearsed all last night and this morning and I'm glad to hear that he did a great job this afternoon!

As far as seating and view goes, I've seen Violet from General Rush seats in that theater last year, Rear Side Mezz, the view was okay but not great. I'd sat Row D Center in the Mezz a few days earlier (HipTix) and that was fantastic!
For cheap-ish Orch seats, you can sign up for HipTix Gold (costs $75 once), and then pay the normal $25 for your tickets. That still makes it much cheaper than normal tickets and you can get Orch seats for all Roundabout shows for a year.

The reason why the shows doesn't sell out completely is entirely Roundabout's fault. Most of front center orch section was never on sale to the public. It was explained to me that block it for subscribers, and only release the seats 1-3 days in advance if they are not taken up. Hence those scattered empty seats. Pretty annoying.

I was there this afternoon as well. James Moye, after a tentative beginning, was terrific; he sang it beautifully, and with more rehearsal could/would be a dynamite Oscar.

It's Kristin Chenoweth's show though, and she is absolutely brilliant. It's the perfect marriage of actress and role; she knows it and appears to be having a ball with it. Having seen the wonderful, if inconsistent, Madeline Kahn, I imagine Cheno's performance is what Hal Prince was hoping to get from Kahn and didn't.

I could nitpick here and there, but what would be the point? The show itself is as spectacular, funny and entertaining as the original; one might miss the cinematic sweep of Prince's staging, but Scott Ellis has given us something just as shiny, just as funny, but perhaps a little bit warmer and with a little more heart.

And I left the theater this afternoon with exactly the same high I had when I first saw the show, exactly 37 years ago today, on February 22, 1978.

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I'm sorry, but yes.

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After Eight-you seem to delight is controversy.
There is no need to be rude about anothers' opinion-you don't agree-no problem-but no need for personal attacks--you don't know the person and your comments were cruel--you should apologise.

"The reason why the shows doesn't sell out completely is entirely Roundabout's fault. Most of front center orch section was never on sale to the public. It was explained to me that block it for subscribers, and only release the seats 1-3 days in advance if they are not taken up. Hence those scattered empty seats. Pretty annoying."

Ugh, I know that they do this. We are trying to go Saturday night or Sunday and I've been checking the website everyday. It's amazing how many seats are released the day of in front orchestra. I'm just nervous that it won't work! Woe is me, to be a theatre fan!