Rank These Shows

[tombomb31]

Posted: 5/23/19 at 9:24pm

I had to postpone my trip a few weeks and am redoing my show list. Having trouble deciding on the last slot or two. These are shows Im interested in but dont yet have tickets for. Rank them and please give me your thoughts! Yall are always so helpful! Plz note that if I didnt list the show Im not into seeing it.

Beetlejuice
All My Sons
Tootsie
Gary
Aint Too Proud
Frankie and Johnny
Happy Talk
Network
Hillary and Clinton
Constitution
Be More Chill

I have tickets for The Cher Show, The Prom, Kiss Me Kate and Burn This so far.

[InTheBathroom1]

Posted: 5/23/19 at 9:34pm

1) Constitution
2) Gary
3) Network
4) Beetlejuice
5) Tootsie
6) Be More Chill
7) Ain’t Too Proud
Hillary & Clinton
9) Frankie & Johnny

Have not seen Happy Talk or All My Sons. A lot depends on your personal taste but the absolute must see out of these is Constitution. Don’t miss it.
 

Updated On: 5/23/19 at 09:34 PM

[victoriafr]

Posted: 5/23/19 at 9:36pm

Can't rank them, as I haven't seen all of them, but my opinion on All My Sons is this: if you have never seen a production of All My Sons, go see it, just because it is an amazing, amazing play. If you have previously seen a production of it, don't go to see it, because the directing is mediocre, and I thought Annette Bening was just okay. Tracy Letts and Benjamin Walker, however, were both stellar!

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 5/23/19 at 9:41pm

I won’t be a lot of help:

GARY is fabulous, we loved it to death, but I know it has detractors in all corners.
NETWORK is not great but Brian Cranston alone is great in it.

Haven’t seen any others on your list as most posters on BWW haven’t shown great enthusiasm for those shows.

[Robbie2]

Posted: 5/23/19 at 9:41pm

tombomb31 said: "I had to postpone my trip a few weeks and am redoing my show list. Having trouble deciding on the last slot or two. These are shows Im interested in but dont yet have tickets for. Rank them and please give me your thoughts! Yall are always so helpful! Plz note that if I didnt list the show Im not into seeing it.

Beetlejuice
All My Sons
Tootsie
Gary
Aint Too Proud
Frankie and Johnny
Happy Talk
Network
Hillary and Clinton
Constitution
Be More Chill

I have tickets for The Cher Show, The Prom, Kiss Me Kate and Burn This so far."

 

What about HADESTOWN? That you should be on the top of your list.

 

9-Beetlejuice
7-All My Sons
3-Tootsie
4-Gary
6-Aint Too Proud
2-Frankie and Johnny
10-Happy Talk
5-Network
8-Hillary and Clinton
1-Constitution
11- Be More Chill

[DoTheDood]

Posted: 5/23/19 at 9:48pm

victoriafr said: "Can't rank them, as I haven't seen all of them, but my opinion on All My Sons is this: if you have never seen a production of All My Sons, go see it, just because it is an amazing, amazing play. If you have previously seen a production of it, don't go to see it, because the directing is mediocre, and I thought Annette Bening was just okay. Tracy Letts and Benjamin Walker, however, were both stellar!"

I would honestly disagree with this. I was completely unfamiliar with All My Sons (and really all of Miller's work, for the most part) and it was mediocre. I would really only call Benjamin Walker a standout, but that's it. There are probably better far introductions to All My Sons than that production.

Updated On: 5/23/19 at 09:48 PM

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 5/23/19 at 9:52pm

^^^^ I was surprised that posters on another thread thought "there wasn't much to Annette Benning's part". I worked on a production starring Jack Klugman and Sada Thompson back in the 1970s and I promise you Thompson was a dominating presence (in the best sense of the term) on that stage.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/23/19 at 10:58pm

If you only had a change of plans from a few weeks ago, why aren't you just sticking with that list?

[UncleCharlie]

Posted: 5/24/19 at 2:43am

I think if you revisit "5 shows" "Kong or Lear" and "One final slot" the other 3 threads you've started asking people what you should see on this trip, you'll find some additional helpful responses there.