Sondheim and Ives' HERE WE ARE at The Shed- Page 57

[StylishCynic]

Here We Are#1400

Posted: 12/15/23 at 10:46am

Does anyone know what the very first line of the show is, spoken by the female housekeeper? It's what's uttered before the music plays.

It sounded to me like she was speaking in a different language (maybe Polish?) but the start of the show took my audience by surprise as we were the first preview so there was still some audience murmurs. 

[Valentina3]

Here We Are#1401

Posted: 12/15/23 at 1:31pm

This thread is so long now lol. I was hoping for some seating recommendations! Is there any spot which is an absolute no? Hoping to catch the matinee tomorrow

Caption: Every so often there was a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.

[Owen22]

Here We Are#1402

Posted: 12/15/23 at 1:40pm

Loved the first act. Was jet lagged so couldn't concentrate wholly on the second. Rachel Bay and David Hyde for the win, however! I should see it again...

[bwayphreak234]

Here We Are#1403

Posted: 12/15/23 at 1:45pm

Valentina3 said: "This thread is so long now lol. I was hoping for some seating recommendations! Is there any spot which is an absolute no? Hoping to catch the matinee tomorrow"

I would just avoid the far sides of the two side sections. I sat in the last row dead center in the center section, and it was a great view.

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

[bwayobsessed]

Here We Are#1404

Posted: 12/15/23 at 10:17pm

Saw the show tonight. It was so very weird but so very good. I found it very affecting. I echo some above posters who felt the book was stronger than the score. I think it’s a very dynamic play, most of the songs didn’t stick with me but I think they worked within the piece. 
 

I couldn’t help thinking while watching how much I want to see Michaela play Dot in Sunday. 
 

Forgive me if this was discussed—the fire over David and Rachel’s scene? Is there something to it I’m missing or was it just to add to the chaos end of the world ness of the moment? 

Overall, really glad I got to be here. Design was gorgeous, direction and acting sharp, Dennis O’hare has such a command of the stage. 

 

[binau]

Here We Are#1405

Posted: 12/16/23 at 10:42am

I know some may roll eyes but I'd love to see Michael Arden direct Sunday with Ben Platt & Diamond. 

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

[bwayobsessed]

Here We Are#1406

Posted: 12/16/23 at 10:54am

binau said: "I know some may roll eyes but I'd love to see Michael Arden direct Sunday with Ben Platt & Diamond."

I for one would go to anything Michael Arden helmed and this sounds excellent.

[Dylan Smith4]

Here We Are#1407

Posted: 12/16/23 at 11:18am

binau said: "I know some may roll eyes but I'd love to see Michael Arden direct Sunday with Ben Platt & Diamond."

I just cannot see Ben as George but Michaela as Dot, I would sell my soul to see! Maybe Jeremy Jordan as George!

The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes. -Harold Prince

[RippedMan]

Here We Are#1408

Posted: 12/16/23 at 11:52pm

I finally saw this today as last minute rush ticket. $40 dead center. Very happy. 
 

Loved the first act. Weird. Absurd. Loved the music and the book. 
 

Act 2 was insufferable. I wasn’t bored just not engaged. 
 

I don’t see any reason why this would ever go to Broadway. To me it was fun but it just didn’t say anything 

[MezzA101]

Here We Are#1409

Posted: 12/17/23 at 4:12pm

A look behind-the-scenes of "Here We Are"

 

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/on-stage-episodes/2023/12/15/a-look-behind-the-scenes-of--here-we-are-# 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Here We Are#1410

Posted: 12/17/23 at 4:21pm

Have many of the understudies gone on? How have they been? Attendance seems to have been quite strong in this.

[Falsettolands]

Here We Are#1411

Posted: 12/17/23 at 4:23pm

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Have many of the understudies gone on? How have they been? Attendance seems to have been quite strong in this."

The only absence I've heard thus far was Denis O'Hare for a couple performances. Any others folks can speak to?

[broadfan327]

Here We Are#1412

Posted: 12/17/23 at 8:36pm

RippedMan said: "I finally saw this today as last minute rush ticket. $40 dead center. Very happy.


Loved the first act. Weird. Absurd. Loved the music and the book.


Act 2 was insufferable. I wasn’t bored just not engaged.


I don’t see any reason why this would ever go to Broadway. To me it was fun but it just didn’t say anything"

I think it says something, it just doesn't hit you over the head with its message like a show such as Jagged Little Pill.  I went in thinking I would hate the piece, but I didn't.

Updated On: 12/17/23 at 08:36 PM

[CityofStrangers]

Here We Are#1413

Posted: 12/17/23 at 8:52pm

Saw the show Saturday afternoon, and I was absolutely floored by how much I enjoyed it. The first act was hilarious, and I really enjoyed the music during the road sequences as well as during the passages of time in the second act. I really hope they make a cast album for this show! The set and sound design was also really impressive. 

[TotallyEffed]

Here We Are#1414

Posted: 12/17/23 at 11:11pm

I feel bad for anyone who for some bizarre reason chooses to miss this. It doesn’t feel like the event everyone is talking about that I’d imagine it would be. But it is so special and so singular beyond being Sondheim’s last show. I feel really lucky I’ve gotten to see it twice.

[RippedMan]

Here We Are#1415

Posted: 12/18/23 at 12:02am

Oh I absolutely did not hate it by any means. I loved what I saw. And was very entertained. Just think it’s very special for what it is. And I kept reminding myself of the talent and skill on stage.  But I’m not sure it needs another life. But I loved it and very happy to get a rush seat literally hours before center section for $40. 

[bear88]

Here We Are#1416

Posted: 12/18/23 at 1:55am

TotallyEffed said: "I feel bad for anyone who for some bizarre reason chooses to miss this. It doesn’t feel like the event everyone is talking about that I’d imagine it would be. But it is so special and so singular beyond being Sondheim’s last show. I feel really lucky I’ve gotten to see it twice."

Tickets seem reasonably easy to get at this point. Even if people find it flawed, it’s still such a terrific production with wonderful direction, set design, and acting. Rachel Bay Jones gives a wonderful performance and it’s worth seeing just for her. There’s plenty to mull over afterward, including whether it’s actually a really good show or just a very well-presented one. My reaction after seeing Here We Are was to feel a bit envious of people like you who could see it again.

As a transfer seems unlikely, and even a cast recording - much less a professional taping - is uncertain, everyone near New York City should get a cheap ticket and check it out while they still can. 

[CityofStrangers]

Here We Are#1417

Posted: 12/18/23 at 9:42am

Part of me is surprised it has flown so much under the radar that it has. I am trying to see it in January again before it closes. If there will be no cast album, then there are one or two pieces of music from the show I want to hear again before it disappears! 

[signorafosca2]

Here We Are#1418

Posted: 12/18/23 at 4:04pm

There’s definitely going to be a cast album. Denis O’Hare said it bluntly at the stage door, totally unsolicited, on 10/27. I told him how much I enjoyed the show and his performance and he said, “We’re going to record it.”

[berniesb!tch]

Here We Are#1419

Posted: 12/18/23 at 4:13pm

I won the lottery for the Saturday matinee and went for the 4th time. As with all of Sondheim shows, it grows on me more and more every time I see it (and I liked it a lot the first time).  The cast is just so damn good and the production so flawless. This past time was the funniest time I had seen it. I had always found it humorous, but this was the first time I was actually laughing out loud. 

Between rush and lottery being much easier to get now, I definitely plan on seeing it once or twice more.

Also I have done a full 180 on Bobby Cannavale. I was not into him my first few times, but his performance has really grown on me.

[TotallyEffed]

Here We Are#1420

Posted: 12/18/23 at 4:35pm

The idea of this not receiving an album is hilarious. Patience, my dears.

[dramamama611]

Here We Are#1421

Posted: 12/18/23 at 6:30pm

I don't think it's patience we need just confirmation that either it has been recorded or is scheduled to be so. One actor saying it back in October isn't very confidence instilling. I'll can wait for an album, I just want to know it's actually coming. Right now I'm thrilled to be going to see it in the New Year. 

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.

[CityofStrangers]

Here We Are#1422

Posted: 12/18/23 at 7:23pm

berniesb!tch said: "I won the lottery for the Saturday matinee and went for the 4th time. As with all of Sondheim shows, it grows on me more and more every time I see it (and I liked it a lot the first time). The cast is just so damn good and the production so flawless. This past time was the funniest time I had seen it. I had always found it humorous, but this was the first time I was actually laughing out loud.

Between rush and lottery being much easier to get now, I definitely plan on seeing it once or twice more.

Also I have done a full 180 on Bobby Cannavale. I was not into him my first few times, but his performance has really grown on me."

 

Couldn't agree more. The audience was absolutely eating it up when I saw it Saturday (in particular, a certain fourth wall-breaking joke in the first act brought the house down in laughter). The first act is really one of the most funny things I've seen in a long time (and I saw Spamalot the night before!). I thought Bobby Cannavale was good. Honestly not a single weak link in the bunch. For an unfinished, Surrealist film-based Sondheim musical, this production was the absolute best possible outcome. Taking a friend to see it again in January before it closes, and I am super excited. 

[Robbie2]

Here We Are#1423

Posted: 12/18/23 at 7:31pm

Everyone relax because a recording is happening and is forthcoming........heard that just now

"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new." Sunday in the Park with George

[dramamama611]

Here We Are#1424

Posted: 12/18/23 at 8:07pm

There is (almost) never a reason to tell anyone to relax. No one is freaking out.  And you "hearing" it's forthcoming is no different then anyone else saying it's coming.

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.