STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews — Page 3

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.

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. 

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

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~

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."

 

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.

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... 

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.

Updated On: 5/3/24 at 02:31 PM

Stereophonic is not in the Book category because it's a play

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.

“Illinoise” SHOULD win but I think it’s the longest of long shots that it does. 

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?