Posted: 5/5/19 at 1:46pm
Dear New Group:
It's just not working. I think it's you. Or it could be me. Or it's us. But we're done.
You sucked me in a few years ago with Sutton Foster in Sweet Charity. The reviews weren't amazing, but we loved the show. Love Sutton, love Neil Simon. It really worked for us. But the rest of the subscription that year had two total dogs (All The Fine Boys, and Whirligig), and one show that was ok (Evening at the Talk House). 1 out of 4 just doesn't cut it, so we didn't renew.
And then this season you did it to me again. We love the movie "Clueless", so as a musical? Sign Me Up! And Alan Cumming, too? TAKE MY MONEY!! So we took a mini subscription (we are 200 miles away, after all) to make sure we could get tix. And OMG was Clueless terrible. Barbie Doll star with songs rewritten by someone with limited talent (hint: If you want to write song parodies, get Randy R.). And then you screwed up the tix for Daddy (the Alan Cumming show) so we were severely view-restricted and show was a total bore anyway.
Then last night we were back for Happy Talk. What a terrible title of a show. OK, better than the original title of "Yea, Sister", but still. Jeez, what a dreadful show. One interesting character out of the five in the play, and that character has the least amount of stage time. None of the others gives you ANY reason to root for them (ok, maybe grandma, but you never see or hear her . . . . hmmm . . . that might mean something) and we were mostly just hoping the show would end and the rain would have stopped. And both happened, so we got to celebrate some minor victories.
Love Pershing Square. Comfortable theaters, mostly good sightlines, and a great waiting area/gift shop/snack bar. So it's not the surroundings. And we've liked most of the other shows we've seen recently, like Constitution and Network, and True West (ok, not Gary, but everything else). So it's not us.
It's you.
Let me know if you can duplicate the Sutton Experience and I'll figure out a way to see that show. But you are NOT sucking me back into another relationship/subscription. Uh uh. No way. Not even with names like Cumming and Sarandon.
I wish you well. More theater options are always better than fewer theater options. Become a producer of better shows. Make me proud to say "I knew it when".
Updated On: 5/5/19 at 01:46 PM
