Sondheim and Ives' HERE WE ARE at The Shed — Page 21

Scored a $129 ticket for Sunday, October 29.

A client called 3 minutes before public sales opened. Cussed under my breath. Worked with client for 10 minutes, then dove into queue.

For my end of October trip, this off-Broadway show is costing more than any of my Broadway tickets -and I don’t mind at all.

The cast makes me think it's sort of going to be like those Agatha Christie movie adaptations with huge all star casts. Except there won't be any mystery plot, or you know, plot that makes sense at all.

We don’t even know how finished the show was before Sondheim died. I’m sure this is something of a tryout as opposed to opening cold on Broadway. I wonder what the preview people will be like.

Given the subject matter, who knows if this show will ever be able to thrive on Broadway?

Is anyone else shocked this didn't sell out?

The last Sondheim musical with a great cast.

I bought a ticket on line this afternoon and never got to promised confirmation email.

Anyone else experience this?

denali.fire said: "I bought a ticket on line this afternoon and never got to promised confirmation email.

Anyone else experience this?"

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denali.fire said: "I bought a ticket on line this afternoon and never got to promised confirmation email.

Anyone else experience this?



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Not sure what email you use, but for Gmail, the confirmation went to my "promotions" folder instead of my regular inbox.

Has there been much in the way of promotion for this show? It feels like the folks in charge have done as much as possible to avoid giving out information. For a long time, it just had a director attached. We just got a cast list this week, along with the two Bunuel films it’s inspired by, and that’s pretty much it. Ticket prices were a guess until the night before tickets went on sale for members.

No one really knows much of anything about Here We Are. It could be a half-completed mess of a musical. It could be surprisingly good. Who knows? I wasn’t even sure whether to get tickets, given all the uncertainty, but my wife - less of a Sondheim fan than me - persuaded me that I would be bummed if we we were in New York City and passed up the chance. The Broadway transfer rumors are just that. Maybe it happens, maybe it doesn’t.

The cast announcement, and the subsequent information that $129 tickets would be available in such a small space, made up my mind.

The $10 to get tickets a day early worked out for me. I would have had to pay more otherwise for the October date that was my only realistic option. However it turns out, I know that I’ll be surrounded by a bunch of Sondheim fans in a small New York City theater watching a talented cast and creative team do their best with what he left behind.

That’s all I can ask. As my wife texted after I got the tickets: ‘It will be an experience.’

Updated On: 7/20/23 at 11:21 PM

and performances don't start till the Fall. It will eventually sell most of the tix prior to opening and we will all be there for the ride. Not really surprised that the process was easy with so many seats remaining. Like the previous poster said. We are "Niche." Proud f***ing Niche. But alas, we don't totally represent the majority of New York Theatre goers....at least not at the moment. I loved watching Straight Line Crazy in this space so a bare bones concert of a production with a small orchestra (which I am imagining...perhaps erroneously) sounds real good to me.

The tickets are pretty cost prohibitive - $129 it out of reach for a lot of people

BETTY22 said: "Is anyone else shocked this didn't sell out?"

Not really. IMHO, just the sheer number of available tickets for this show, most of which are at rather steep prices, did not bode well for a quick sellout. I posted the following a few days ago (Post #406) and I think this week's onsales pretty much confirmed what I said then:

"...if you run the numbers, the chances of this being a sellout this week seem pretty low. Please check my math: There are 8 shows a week, with roughly 500 seats per show. That's 4,000 seats in a week. With an advertised 15 week run that translates into approximately 60,000 seats, which is roughly the equivalent of U2 selling out Madison Square Garden three times over.

Even for those of us who are ardent Sondheim fans, does it seem likely that a show that has never been seen or reviewed (or for that matter even finished by SS himself) is going to move that many seats in just a few days? Yes, I realize there are holdbacks, and the occasional week where they play less than 8 shows, but for those reasons even if you knock out 10,000 seats from the equation, that still leaves 50,000 seats up for grabs."

It was shelved during Covid, but they restarted it in 2021, which led to the workshop with BP and NL right before Sondheim’s death.

I don't see any suggestion that this is going to look like a concert/reading/sitzprobe.