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Sondheim and Ives' HERE WE ARE at The Shed
#500Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/20/23 at 1:44pm
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.
lapinitsa
Understudy Joined: 12/29/13
#501Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/20/23 at 2:45pm
Based on the above reports, and our own experience, seems there were plenty of tickets to go around and there are still more. I hope everyone who wanted tickets got them.
inception
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/13
#502Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/20/23 at 3:10pm
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.
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#503Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/20/23 at 5:43pm
Random q, if they have a confirmed Broadway run hypothetically why would they bother to mount this off Broadway first? (I had the same question about Merrily when the rumours started). While they can start lining up the pieces surely it would only truly be confirmed once investors are confident in the audience response to the material and the critical response. I guess it gives them more time to think about the material especially if they need to be clever with the book or orchestrations or whatnot to fill unfinished gaps. But could it really be so easy for it all to be booked especially with these challenging economic conditions? I wonder if that reflects aspirations only.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 7/20/23 at 05:43 PM
#504Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/20/23 at 6:10pm
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?
SisterGeorge
Broadway Star Joined: 5/8/19
#505Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/20/23 at 6:27pm
lapinitsa said: "Based on the above reports, and our own experience, seems there were plenty of tickets to go around and there are still more. I hope everyone who wanted tickets got them."
Talk about false alarm. There are still so many tickets available throughout the run at all prices. I'm glad my anxiety level was somewhat contained leading me to only spring for the $100 membership. I seem to remember that the pre-sale for Flying Over Sunset generated somewhat similar hysteria.
Sister George
BETTY22
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/29/13
#506Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/20/23 at 7:00pm
Is anyone else shocked this didn't sell out?
The last Sondheim musical with a great cast.
yyys
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/29/14
#507Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/20/23 at 7:31pm
well it's expensive and no one is familiar with the score....it's a blind purchase for most.
BETTY22 said: "Is anyone else shocked this didn't sell out?
The last Sondheim musical with a great cast."
#508Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/20/23 at 7:35pm
I bought a ticket on line this afternoon and never got to promised confirmation email.
Anyone else experience this?
To seek revenge may lead to hell yet everyone does it but seldom as well......
bear88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/26/16
#509Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/20/23 at 7:55pm
I got the confirmation email and have the tickets in Apple wallet. You might want to check with The Shed or double-check your spam folder.
ijest22
Stand-by Joined: 4/14/17
#510Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/20/23 at 8:15pm
denali.fire said: "I bought a ticket on line this afternoon and never got to promised confirmation email.
Anyone else experience this?"
happened to me. Spam filter
#511Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/20/23 at 8:23pm
Y’all are acting like it’s opening night tomorrow and they’re going to play to empty houses. They literally just announced the cast a few days ago. Tickets will sell.
Broadway61004
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/11
#512Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/20/23 at 8:29pm
denali.fire said: "I bought a ticket on line this afternoon and never got to promised confirmation email.
Anyone else experience this?
"
Not sure what email you use, but for Gmail, the confirmation went to my "promotions" folder instead of my regular inbox.
JasonC3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/21
#513Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/20/23 at 9:13pm
This was never going to sell out right away this week despite those confidently asserting it would.
bear88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/26/16
#514Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/20/23 at 11:21pm
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.’
pethian
Leading Actor Joined: 5/23/22
#515Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/20/23 at 11:23pm
JasonC3 said: "This was never going to sell out right away this week despite those confidently asserting it would."
I thought so too when I read those posts but they were so emphatic, and given the small theater, great cast and the significance of the event, I entertained the possibility there was something to it. Now I see this episode is a reminder of exactly how niche we are--enthusiastic but niche. Well, the Shed made some money on all those new memberships and there are still plenty of seats for people to see Sondheim's last.
nycward
Stand-by Joined: 4/7/16
#516Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/20/23 at 11:41pm
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.
#517Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/20/23 at 11:59pm
Yeah, there are a lot people who fall in between normies/tourists and theatre people who will be very interested in this, but not "buy in the first hour tickets are on sale" interested. For example, there's a self-described Sondheim fan who I work with who had maybe a vague idea the show was happening no clue tickets were going on sale, and didn't rush to make room in her schedule to buy them when I told her they were.
Once they start marketing, those type of people will start to buy. They'll most certainly get features written about them, hopefully media appearances, crossing my fingers for some performances, throw in some social media and traditional marketing as well and buzz will build.
B212323
Featured Actor Joined: 12/7/21
#518Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/21/23 at 12:58am
The tickets are pretty cost prohibitive - $129 it out of reach for a lot of people
#519Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/21/23 at 3:30am
I thought demand might have been slightly higher but overall I don't know how this can be seen as a disappointment - the advance appears to be very very strong. And some of the early concern/predictions about early performances selling out, especially the first preview, have somewhat come true (ok there appears to be a few tickets to the first preview left, which I would have thought would be gone by now, but they will be gone soon).
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
TarHeelAlan
Featured Actor Joined: 4/1/20
#520Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/21/23 at 9:04am
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."
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#521Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/21/23 at 9:25am
I'm going to mention, not only was it not finished, it was abandoned. The last we had heard was that they shelved it - which means it wasn't working.
Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled it's not lost forever and I'm going in October - and looking forward to it - but Im not expecting this to be a masterpiece, nor that it something that should have a broadway run. (I'm not saying it won't or shouldn't, just that it might not be.)
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#522Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/21/23 at 10:26am
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.
gibsons2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/19
#523Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/21/23 at 10:38am
B212323 said: "The tickets are pretty cost prohibitive - $129 it out of reach for a lot of people"
That and the fact that this production might look like reading/sitzprobe, especially in that space. With the very famous and talented cast, but nevertheless... I paid my $10 right before the price range got posted, and already knew I'm not ready to spend that much on something possibly underwhelming. But I definitely understand the enthusiasm of die hard Sondheim fans and looking forward to their first feedbacks. I'm rooting for this show to be a hit and a potential transfer.
#524Sondheim's Final Musical HERE WE ARE will premiere at The Shed this fall (No, really!)
Posted: 7/21/23 at 10:53am
I don't see any suggestion that this is going to look like a concert/reading/sitzprobe.
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