SPRING AWAKENING revival flailing at box office — Page 5

TerrenceIsTheMann said: "It shouldn't have extended as they can barely sell it already."

It extended by two weeks, not sure why that is such a big issue.

No, no one else was moved to my knowledge. The producers give out a pair of orchestra upgrades at each show. He was standing next to me outside the theater, must have memorized my seat number (he was looking at my ticket) and the. Appeared there and gave me two upgraded seats

DramaMama writes:

"Hansen's masturbation scene was sublime. But I also felt so number of scenes didn't climax well...."

Question: Did the masturbation scene climax well?

It sounded more like the producers were just doing a random upgrade for two people per show from the cheaper seats to orchestra seats, more like a promotion than anything else, no?

This was always a 'prestige' transfer. And I think they will still end up getting some nice Tony nominations out of it.

I saw this show last Sunday, and I had some issues with it. I loved the idea, but there seemed to be a serious disconnect at times between the deaf and hearing actors playing the same role. In particular, the two Moritz' seemed to offer two distinct portrayals of the character, with the hearing actor vocalizing an intense need and urgency in everything he said while the deaf actor didn't have that same focus. Both portrayals were perfectly valid, but having both of them attached to the same character at the same time was confusing to me. It almost seemed like the two Moritz' were struggling to communicate, which may have been a powerful underscore to the themes of the musical if not for how clear it seemed to me that this was not intentional (mainly, how much it interfered with understanding the character, at least coming from an audience member who hasn't seen the show before).

As a side note, I sat in the rear mezzanine. Don't do that. If you're going to spend money on this show, you have to spring for the orchestra - you simply must see facial expressions on the deaf actors/actresses faces. I feel like I missed out on a lot not being able to do that.

Great! Thanks for the tip -- I've wanted to go back since I saw it in previews, but have been too busy or stalled out.

I was there tonight, as well, and was really taken with the production. I think I heard so much about the challenges of staging this, from how to cue the cast for different things, doing choreography to music you can't hear, and on and on... I sort of quickly realized that for the audience, it is just Spring Awakening with a different framing device. Any other challenges were all on the cast, not the audience... and I found that even as things switch from being projected, signed, and on and on, it seemed to be done in a way that you were always drawn to where you were supposed to be looking very naturally.

I did watch Joshua Castille during Purple Summer at the end, and it was sort of transformative how much musicality and emotion he was able to channel through his entire body and signs. Highly recommended...

Only downside was I booked this because I saw Camryn was going to be out through the 14th, so I booked the 15th, and she wasn't on tonight, either. And I chatted with her at Barbecue about the show, we have a mutual friend we discussed for a while, and then I ran into her on the street, and we chatted again, where she said to make sure I find her afterward and say hi. Maybe I'll go again, if TodayTix is plentiful and the mezz is selling that poorly... I cashed out some Audience Rewards points to be in the second row orchestra tonight, since this is one of the shows I was most looking forward to seeing right now.

Polka Dot2 said: "Sam2 - how did you get a $27 ticket on TodayTix? It says that the cheapest is $47"

There were $37 tickets for a bunch of dates for sale earlier this week. Since I don't have people who want to spend their life saving's on tickets so they can give me a ten dollar discount, I used the SUBWAY-code. I believe it's for first time users only, or that u can only use it once, but creating a new account can't be that hard, I suppose. (Sorry for being a bastard)

Haterobics, how did you like the view from the second row? I sat at the extreme side of that row during previews and it is not until going back sitting in the mezzanine before I realized how much I had missed. But much has to do with your position in the row, off course.

^It's one of the guilty pleasure highlights of the show. Besides Austin McKenzie's entire appearance, off course. I would have loved to hear more of his falsetto, by the way. It sounded very promising.

VintageSnarker said: "That's very strange. Does anyone have an explanation for this or know if they're doing anything to resolve the issue?"

The wire into Krysta's mic pack was seemingly loose, so it would make noise as it was moving around, until it finally came out entirely. Nothing systemic that needs resolution, just one of those things that happens, live theater and all.

So, they are running a special ticket price in honor of the ADA, which doesn't include any of the accessible seating? Only rear mezz... D'oh! So it's in tribute of the accessibility, not for anyone who needs accessibility, heh.