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Updated On: 3/23/08 at 04:19 PM

For those who have yet to take advantage...

Updated On: 3/23/08 at 11:34 PM

not sure what you consider primo but only first and last row of orchestra center has been available since they went on sale after am ex presale.....could it be all other rows are premium seating?? I grabbed 2 in front center mezz instead

Third row Balcony is fine at the Lyceum, BwayBaby18. It's high up but still very close. There are decent sight lines throughout the balcony (even in the last rows). The worst part about the balcony is really the climb up to the top of the theater...the stairway to the balcony at the Lyceum leaves something to be desired, and you get an excellent view of the chipping paint and seemingly endless dust bunnies throughout the theater. For being Broadway's oldest house, it's also the dustiest! Check out what used to be the smoking lounge, but is now unused...it's in the basement. The Shuberts should really use that space better.

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The stage at the Lyceum is so freakin' high that I don't know if you'll be able to see the elevator at the rear of the stage from the front row.

Updated On: 3/24/08 at 03:41 PM

I think D would be perfectly fine. I wouldn't go closer just because of the height of the stage. I couldn't tell you which row is the first row for this production because they might have altered the seating from the previous production. The regular seating chart has seats in row AA for center orchestra only, but the Macbeth seating chart shows seating beginning with row B, so who knows? This production has an elevator at the rear of the stage and makes extensive use of projects against the back wall and the side wall on stage right, so if you are extremely close the projection may be distorted.

frogs, it's really not all that 'freakin' high' at all - I don't know where you got that from. I have the same seats I had for IS HE DEAD? - same exact seats and they were perfect ... especialy for someone who's visualy impaired like myself. Thanks for the concern though.

Updated On: 3/24/08 at 05:23 PM

I know it's not that high (although it's probably among the highest along with the Cort), I was just using the height of the stage to illustrate a point based on the particular staging of this production, specifically the elevator that is at the rear of the stage.

Granted they might have a changed a few things for the Broadway production but here we go. The set is basically two walls, on stage right and a back wall. On the back wall is a gate behind which is an elevator that is used for entrances/exits. There is a set piece along the back wall that acts as a refrigerator among other things. There is a heavy use of projections that cover the entirety of the two walls. A TV placed against the back wall appears during the projections giving you a clear view of the images being projected. They use a lot of movable set pieces, mainly tables to represent different settings. The show starts in a hospital, but then moves into the kitchen at Macbeth's house. I cannot give you a good answer on running time, but there were signs throughout BAM stating it was three hours long. I did not stay for the second act as I got really bad stomach pains during the first act so I left at intermission. There are quite a few instances of loud noises, particularly at the beginning of the show, which features a lot of gun shots, while a lot of stock military footage is projected. I really can't give a fair assessment of the show as I only saw the first act, so I might go back and see this if they offer rush or if it appears on TKTS... based on what I saw I wouldn't be willing to shell out a lot of money. Maybe it was the distance from the stage (fourth row of the gallery) or my stomach pain but I could not become engaged in the production at all. I did really enjoy Kate Fleetwood as Lady Macbeth. The character of the Porter, while played incredibly lewdly (like urinating in a sink at the front of the stage lewd) was quite amusing. I hope you enjoy the production.

Just brace yourself as soon as the blackout starts and you should be fine for the gunshots. Again I was fairly far away so the blood didn't have too much of an impact on me. After Macbeth kills Duncan he comes back and his hands are red and so are the knives. After Lady Macbeth comes back after she orchestrated the scene, she is covered in blood: arms, hands, and chest. I did not get to see the much talked about gimmick involving the sink, which I totally forgot to mention before, as that happens in the second act. There is a sink that sits downstage right that actually now that I think about it be an obstruction to people sitting on house left. It wasn't a problem at BAM because the seats are level with the stage. At the Lyceum that might cause some sight-line problems. I hope they changed the positioning of that sink. When Banquo gets his throat cut it gets a bit graphic, as well as his reappearance at the end of Act 1, when he... wait I'm not giving that away and I definitely cannot ruin that part of the show.

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