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STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#50
Posted: 4/30/24 at 10:21am
We ARE getting a full version of “East of Eden”????
OMG OMG OMG
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/19
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#51
Posted: 4/30/24 at 12:55pm
Just reporting on here that 13 Tony nominations and all of your influence made be book a ticket for this, finally. Will be seeing it on one of Wednesday matinees in May. Even took a personal day to thoroughly enjoy the experience. Very, very excited and intrigued.
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#52
Posted: 4/30/24 at 12:57pm
8 full songs. I really can't wait.
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#53
Posted: 4/30/24 at 1:11pm
Jordan Catalano said: "8 full songs. I really can't wait."
I'm so excited!!! Very curious about Bright specifically. Is it the (superior) version that starts on the 3rd verse or the full 6 1/2 minute version or both. I'd also love the acoustic version we hear at the beginning.
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#54
Posted: 4/30/24 at 1:20pm
The podcast Decoder Ring did an episode on creating the music for the show, and it features two different versions of “Bright” at the end. One is the start of the acoustic version and one is the uptempo version. Episode link for Spotify is here.
Neither sound like the second (“final”) recording session version we hear, so I’m assuming we’re getting two or three versions of it on the cast recording. At the very least, we’ll have the uptempo and “final” versions.
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#55
Posted: 4/30/24 at 2:25pm
Did anyone get the vinyl they were selling at the theater? Curious to know what's on there and if it includes everything we'd get on the cast album release
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#56
Posted: 4/30/24 at 2:30pm
chrishuyen said: "Did anyone get the vinyl they were selling at the theater? Curious to know what's on there and if it includes everything we'd get on the cast album release"
It’s a single that includes “Masquerade,” not the full album.
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#57
Posted: 4/30/24 at 3:06pm
I think I'm most excited for East of Eden as well as Holly's song. The first time I heard Juliana Canfield sing was pure bliss. I'm so ready for next Friday~
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#58
Posted: 4/30/24 at 3:37pm
I just bought a partial view rear mezz ticket to tonights performance thinking the energy will be really electric...hope i dont come to regret the partial view
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#59
Posted: 5/1/24 at 11:22am
Helen Shaw in the New Yorker:
“Stereophonic” and “Cabaret” Turn Up the Volume on Broadway
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/stereophonic-theatre-review-cabaret
It's highly positive, and this was an interesting observation:
"The sound designer Ryan Rumery has a nearly impossible task, which he executes with ambition and finesse, but he’s trying for needlepoint accuracy in a Broadway house, which sometimes fights back. The way that music stays alive after being electronically organized into tape is one of the play’s core mysteries, but there are places in the Golden where the sound goes a little sour. Playwrights Horizons’s compact, wood-walled venue functioned as a well-balanced listening room, whereas the sprawling new venue is a gamble, seat by seat. That’s Broadway for you: everybody pays a toll to get there."
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#60
Posted: 5/1/24 at 6:47pm
This show has too much hype around it rn. Went this afternoon expecting an 11/10 experience but got a super long play that was just good with some *wonderful* musical moments. By far the best parts of this show revolve around the music. But for me there were absolutely no stakes to the plot and many of these characters were so one dimensional. I think this would have been much more powerful if this was edited down. I will undoubtedly look forward to album release tho!! Also Sarah Pidgeon is a star!!
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#61
Posted: 5/2/24 at 12:21am
Wow! We saw completely different shows. I loved it! You have to go in knowing that you are being dropped into a recording studio in the mid-70's and then just be a voyeur/fly on the wall. Such a cool experience and the songs are amazing. Can't wait for the cast recording.
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#62
Posted: 5/3/24 at 2:05pm
The company will perform from the show Monday night on Jimmy Fallon.
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#63
Posted: 5/3/24 at 2:18pm
EDSOSLO858 said: "The company will perform from the show Monday night on Jimmy Fallon."
If they're doing performances for late night now, I feel like they have to be able to do a Tony performance...
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#64
Posted: 5/3/24 at 2:20pm
Also, I may or may not have gotten the chance to listen to some songs already... y'all are in for such a treat. Absolute chills. These are by far the best songs of this Broadway season. The question to me is just, do Tony voters see it as a "score?"
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#65
Posted: 5/3/24 at 2:31pm
There will absolutely be some bristling at a play being nominated for Best Score and suggestion that it's somehow a lesser accomplishment because it's a play and not a musical- I've already seen it, despite the fact that the score is overwhelmingly praised and the category is very explicitly not Best Original Score of a Musical.
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#66
Posted: 5/3/24 at 2:45pm
I’m thinking Suffs winning Best Musical will be enough to get them Score and Book and Featured Actress
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#67
Posted: 5/3/24 at 2:46pm
Stereophonic is not in the Book category because it's a play
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#68
Posted: 5/4/24 at 11:23pm
One Man's Opinion Season 3 Ep. 93: Stereophonic on Broadway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cio5328Bk7s
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/30/17
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#69
Posted: 5/4/24 at 11:26pm
Broadway Flash said: "I’m thinkingSuffs winning Best Musical will be enough to get them Score and Book and Featured Actress"
Suffs isn't winning Best Musical. Illinoise is.
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#70
Posted: 5/4/24 at 11:48pm
That will be ridiculous if that happens. Suffs needs to win because they are the superior musical. They’re drafting a victory speech.
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#71
Posted: 5/4/24 at 11:51pm
“Illinoise” SHOULD win but I think it’s the longest of long shots that it does.
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#72
Posted: 5/6/24 at 1:12am
Interesting that Eli Gelb was the show's sole winner at the Lortel Awards.
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#73
Posted: 5/6/24 at 8:32am
I know that this show is positioned as a play, but is it the kind of thing that could have gone in as a musical in another year/with a different set of producers or is it very much a play?
Broadway Star Joined: 10/14/21
STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews#74
Posted: 5/6/24 at 8:39am
Broadway Flash said: "I’m thinkingSuffs winning Best Musical will be enough to get them Score and Book and Featured Actress"
If Suffs wins anything (big "if" in my opinion), Featured Actress ain't going to be one of them.
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