STEREOPHONIC Opening Night Critics’ Reviews- Page 3

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/30/24 at 10:21am

We ARE getting a full version of “East of Eden”????

OMG OMG OMG

[gibsons2]

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.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/30/24 at 12:57pm

8 full songs. I really can't wait.

[jkcohen626]

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. 

[ColorTheHours048]

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.

[chrishuyen]

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

[ColorTheHours048]

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.

[jasmiinda]

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~

[bwayobsessed]

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 

[MemorableUserName]

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."

 

[ShowBro]

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!! 

[Bill Snibson]

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.

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 5/3/24 at 2:05pm

The company will perform from the show Monday night on Jimmy Fallon. 

[jkcohen626]

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... 

[jkcohen626]

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?" 

[Kad]

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.

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

[Broadway Flash]

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 

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 5/3/24 at 2:46pm

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

[Robbie2]

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

 

[CoffeeBreak]

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.

[Broadway Flash]

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. 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/4/24 at 11:51pm

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

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 5/6/24 at 1:12am

Interesting that Eli Gelb was the show's sole winner at the Lortel Awards.

[binau]

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? 

[ElephantLoveMedley]

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.