#26
Posted: 1/18/16 at 8:01pm
I'm glad to hear the show received a warm send-off. It was one of my favorite best musical winners in recent memory.
RIP "Gentleman's Guide" — Page 2
#27
Posted: 1/19/16 at 12:34am
I'm sad that it had to close, but I'm grateful that I got to see it twice. The second time was a few days before Jefferson Mays' birthday, so I got to wish him a happy birthday. He asked how I knew that, and another cast member said that everything is on the Internet now. Such a friendly cast!
"I have maggots in my scrotum!"
#28
Posted: 1/19/16 at 12:42am
saw it 4 times. i truthfully liked it more each time I saw it. Awesome show.
#29
Posted: 1/19/16 at 2:04am
They are a lovely cast aren't they?? I took my mom to stage door--it was my mom's first stage door experience--and I know she loved it! Jefferson Mays was super friendly and he kept coming back up the line. I'd see him go down the line, then boop, he'd be right back at the front. Then when Bryce Pinkerton finally came out, he stuck around for a long, long time! Eventually all the barricades went down and he was still hanging about, chatting with a family. Then my mom wanted a solo photo with him against the D'Ysquith backdrop, didn't like his pose in the first pic and asked him to re-pose, and he was like, "Of course! Anything you want!" I was like jeez, this is a lot of attention! I was getting embarrassed, but he didn't mind. :)
That being said, I didn't love the show, which for some reason made me feel really guilty. Everyone who's asked me about it has been like, "Have you seen it? Didn't you just LOVE it? Wasn't it GREAT?" I wanted to feel that I was having a personal off-day. I mean, I didn't laugh once. Maybe if I got to see it again... Still the cast was lovely as heck though, and for that I will always be very fond of it!
#30
Posted: 1/20/16 at 10:24am
I found this show delightful from start to finish. IMHO Jefferson Mays was robbed of the Tony. Long may it live on the road.
#31
Posted: 1/20/16 at 5:24pm
I suspect that either Mayes or Pinkham might join the tour for the Los Angeles stop in March. What do you think the odds are of that occuring?
#32
Posted: 1/20/16 at 5:24pm
I suspect that either Mayes or Pinkham might join the tour for the Los Angeles stop in March. What do you think the odds are of that occuring?
#33
Posted: 1/20/16 at 5:39pm
ChairinMain said: "I suspect that either Mayes or Pinkham might join the tour for the Los Angeles stop in March. What do you think the odds are of that occuring? "
IMO, I don't think that the odds are very high. Both John Rapson and Kevin Massey are doing a swell job in the roles and Jefferson and Bryce aren't necessarily large names to warrant them headlining the tour to get people in the seats.
#34
Posted: 1/21/16 at 1:11am
Gentleman's Guide is not a star driven vehicle and the touring company seems to be opening to raves in every city. I think Rapson and Massey will more than satisfy the Los Angeles critics and audiences.
Beyond that, I can not see Mays jumping back into that marathon quite so rapidly. If anyone remember, he was out of the show for an extended time over the summer - an injury of some sort - and to the best of MY knowledge never returned to a full eight show a week schedule.
#35
Posted: 1/21/16 at 1:40am
Mays was out for a while over the summer (i was at one of them) and saw it 2 more times after, and he did return to a regular 8x a week schedule. you stand corrected.
#36
Posted: 1/21/16 at 1:53am
That was a very recent, recent development in that case, because I do for a fact that stand-by Greg Jackson was doing two performances a week for a number of months after Mays returned to the show. It was not billed in the program, it was treated as an understudy performing. If Mays returned to a full 8/week schedule, as you say, it was during the last 3 months of the run.
#37
Posted: 1/26/16 at 1:32pm
@z5 said: "Mays was out for a while over the summer (i was at one of them) and saw it 2 more times after, and he did return to a regular 8x a week schedule. you stand corrected."
Wow, sassy...
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