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Sondheim and Ives' HERE WE ARE at The Shed
MVintheheartland
Featured Actor Joined: 11/19/13
#825Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 8:12pm
Assuming I will wake up around 2AM like I always do,I will probably log in to read your reports. Have fun, everybody!
forfivemoreminutes
Featured Actor Joined: 9/24/21
#827Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 8:22pm
The stage looks pretty high in the photos. Does it look high in person? Would you have to crane your neck?
#828Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 8:32pm
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
Updated On: 9/28/23 at 08:32 PM
#829Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 8:33pm
Love the Damien Hirst on the wall. I know I’m gonna spoil myself every day until I see the final preview. I can’t help it.
#830Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 8:55pm
So how soon do they announce a Broadway transfer?
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
JasonC3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/21
#831Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 9:01pm
ACL2006 said: "So how soon do they announce a Broadway transfer?"
At intermission no doubt. {sarcasm}
#832Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 9:11pm
The coolest girl character is no longer Natalie in next to normal or Lydia in beetle juice it’s DiamondMs character in here we are.
"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
#833Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 9:13pm
Intermission
THIS SHOW IS BONKERS!!! I am so intrigued where it will go in Act 2.
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Wasn’t on my bingo card to see Tracie Bennett, in one of her many scene stealing characters, walking through the audience holding a stuffed sheep dressed like a mixture of Lucille Ball and Little Orphan Annie.
#834Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 9:13pm
Wow. This is 2023 Sondheim. It is so modern, sleek, polished, edgy, and extremely funny and WEIRD. The set is is absolutely marvelous.
Every actor is perfectly suited in their role, they are all hilarious. Cannavale and Jones are the “‘main couple.”
The score is light, funny, and very Sondheim. Jin Ha has a number with Diamond that is both wacky and beautiful. This isn’t going to go down as one of his greatest scores, but it is so refreshing and exciting to finally hear it.
Ives book is PERFECT.
#835Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 9:16pm
Do we know who's playing who?
Updated On: 9/28/23 at 09:16 PM#836Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 9:18pm
FolliesCabaret said: "Do we know who's playing who?"
Yes, but no song list.
Georgeanddot2
Leading Actor Joined: 2/20/20
#837Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 9:23pm
Is the score a new sound for Sondheim or is it very much that classic Sondheim style?
#838Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 9:46pm
wish i were here2 said: "Intermission
THIS SHOW IS BONKERS!!! I am so intrigued where it will go in Act 2.
Wasn’t on my bingo card to see Tracie Bennett waking through the audience holding a stuffed sheep"
Hey - Spoiler! ^^^^^^^^
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
#839Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 9:48pm
I mean, you’re in the previews thread. Enter at your own risk.
tmlnr
Swing Joined: 5/30/23
#840Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 9:49pm
ljay889 said: "Wow. This is 2023 Sondheim. It is so modern, sleek, polished, edgy, and extremely funny and WEIRD. The set is is absolutely marvelous.
Every actor is perfectly suited in their role, they are all hilarious. Cannavale and Jones are the “‘main couple.”
The score is light, funny, and very Sondheim. Jin Ha has a number with Diamond that is both wacky and beautiful. This isn’t going to go down as one of his greatest scores, but it is so refreshing and exciting to finally hear it.
Ives book is PERFECT."
Can you tell us more about the set? do all those white walls move?
#841Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 10:01pm
I’m interested in the run time, if anyone can report back!
Hunter: Your teeth need whitening./ Heidi: You sound weird./ Jeff: You taste funny.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.
#842Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 10:10pm
suicidalmickeymouse said: "I’m interested in the run time, if anyone can report back!"
site states
- Running time: 2 hours and 20 minutes, including one intermission
- There is no late seating and re-entry is only permitted during intermission.
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
MemorableUserName
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/27/19
#843Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 10:15pm
eta: didn't realize this had already been linked to. Updated On: 9/29/23 at 10:15 PM
#844Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 10:41pm
Act 2 DOES begin with some singing but it turns into a straight play with underscoring and it ends that way.
StylishCynic
Stand-by Joined: 7/5/16
#845Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 10:45pm
“Well, that’s that.”
🌷
BoringBoredBoard40
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/27/21
#846Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 10:54pm
Respectfully, I still don't believe for a second that the original intention of this piece was for the second act to have almost no music and the fact the estate and creative team are pushing that narrative for some reason is confounding and disingenuous
#847Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 10:59pm
BoringBoredBoard40 said: "Respectfully, I still don't believe for a second that the original intention of this piece was for the second act to have almost no music"
To be fair, the creative team is not actually claiming that this was the original intention. What they've said is that, at some point, they thought they had a viable show without additional music for the second act, and Sondheim gave his blessing to move forward with it.
BoringBoredBoard40
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/27/21
#848Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 11:04pm
Right which means Sondheim didn't think it was finished to his standard but got talked into it by other people and at this point he is dead so who knows what is actually the real story
#849Sondheim/Ives HERE WE ARE @ The Shed
Posted: 9/28/23 at 11:07pm
BoringBoredBoard40 said: "Right which means Sondheim didn't think it was finished to his standard but got talked into it by other people and at this point he is dead so who knows what is actually the real story"
But why does it matter? As long as it works (which we will know soon enough), it won’t matter. Sondheim shows often have broken from the standard form over decades and his final one may do it again.
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
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