Shows for Days Previews @ LCT — Page 2

The posted running time (per LCT's website) is 2:10. I saw the second preview and it ran closer to 2:25, so I guess they've pared things down a bit.

I think we should get Kelli, Kristin, Sutton, Patti, and Donna and do a revue called "Brantley's Girls"?

Updated On: 6/30/15 at 12:15 AM

Brantley's review may be a rave for LuPone, but he's pretty cool towards the play itself. I don't see a transfer happening without significant rewrites -- and even then, it seems unlikely.

anyone have seating advice? row F is what is showing up as available and they are telling me that is the first row by stage? Does that make sense? How is it staged? Thanks

If the seats in Row F that are showing up as available are F15 through F20 (and possibly F13 and F14), they're just above the passageways through which the actors enter and exit, so there are no rows of seats between them and the stage, so technically you could call them "first row" (although I wouldn't describe them as "by the stage"). For a clearer description of what I'm trying to describe, see

Newhouse seating chart

I think the show has been extended another week.

F is fine although leg room might be compromised a bit

I saw it in previews and Lapone was very good. It was almost like the part was written for her. I did not care for the memory monologues to the audience. They were executed fine but the set changing was tedious, it slowed everything down and some of the information seemed redundant. Act 2 went a whole different direction than I expected. I thought it would be more like Noises Off. I was disappointed that I did not get to see the rendition of the narrators play. Urie was solid but a little too good looking for the part. And I found the supporting characters a little cartoonish.

So I finally saw this yesterday.

And I loved it. Every single persons acting was brilliant. In the beginning, when (SPOILER, I guess) Patti's character takes her first pill, she actually dropped it down the front of her dress and had to shimmy to get it out. It was hilarious and I'm pretty sure not part of the script, haha.

I didn't get many of the references seeing how I only got into theatre 3-4 years ago (and was born in 1991), but the delivery was perfect enough to at least make me realize semi-what was going on in those jokes that went over my head.

The older women behind me were not impressed one bit. They decided to spend the entire intermission talking about how awful they thought it was, how there was no plot, how they wanted to sleep, etc. It actually reminded me of these older women who sat behind me when I went to see the recent production of Simply Sondheim complaining that they don't understand the plot line and couldn't find the story.

I attend a ton of regional theatre, so I loved the actual set moving by Urie during the play, and the little background information we were given throughout for the lines of tape on the ground. A LOT of great one-liners, I'm sure people could relate what they were saying about theatre then, to the present day.

Overall, I absolutely loved it. It was so amazing to see Patti in a straight play. Urie was golden. Everyone else was amazing. At the curtain call Patti LuPone made everyone stay on stage just to say, "How does it feel to have a cell-phone free show?!" and the audience went wild. It was pretty hilarious.

We also had a full page-length flyer in the Playbill telling everyone to silence their phones, etc. Has it always been this big or did they just start doing that after the incident?

Updated On: 7/26/15 at 05:59 AM