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!
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?
Posted: 9/28/23 at 8:32pm
Updated On: 9/28/23 at 08:32 PM
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.
Posted: 9/28/23 at 8:55pm
So how soon do they announce a Broadway transfer?
Posted: 9/28/23 at 9:01pm
ACL2006 said: "So how soon do they announce a Broadway transfer?"
At intermission no doubt. {sarcasm}
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.
Posted: 9/28/23 at 9:13pm
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, 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.
Updated On: 9/29/23 at 09:13 PM
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.
Posted: 9/28/23 at 9:16pm
Do we know who's playing who?
Updated On: 9/28/23 at 09:16 PM
Posted: 9/28/23 at 9:18pm
FolliesCabaret said: "Do we know who's playing who?"
Yes, but no song list.
Posted: 9/28/23 at 9:23pm
Is the score a new sound for Sondheim or is it very much that classic Sondheim style?
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! ^^^^^^^^
Posted: 9/28/23 at 9:48pm
I mean, you’re in the previews thread. Enter at your own risk.
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?
Posted: 9/28/23 at 10:01pm
I’m interested in the run time, if anyone can report back!
Posted: 9/28/23 at 10:10pm
suicidalmickeymouse said: "I’m interested in the run time, if anyone can report back!"
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Posted: 9/28/23 at 10:15pm
Updated On: 9/29/23 at 10:15 PM
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.
Posted: 9/28/23 at 10:45pm
“Well, that’s that.”
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Updated On: 9/28/23 at 10:45 PM
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
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.
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
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.
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