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Sondheim and Ives' HERE WE ARE at The Shed
StylishCynic
Stand-by Joined: 7/5/16
#1400Here We Are
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.
#1401Here We Are
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/11
#1402Here We Are
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...
#1403Here We Are
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
Broadway Star Joined: 5/28/13
#1404Here We Are
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.
#1405Here We Are
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.
"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
bwayobsessed
Broadway Star Joined: 5/28/13
#1406Here We Are
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.
#1407Here We Are
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#1408Here We Are
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
Broadway Star Joined: 3/29/23
#1409Here We Are
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#1410Here We Are
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
Leading Actor Joined: 11/18/13
#1411Here We Are
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
Broadway Star Joined: 3/20/08
#1412Here We Are
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.
CityofStrangers
Swing Joined: 11/23/23
#1413Here We Are
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.
#1414Here We Are
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#1415Here We Are
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/26/16
#1416Here We Are
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
Swing Joined: 11/23/23
#1417Here We Are
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
Chorus Member Joined: 10/6/22
#1418Here We Are
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
Stand-by Joined: 5/23/21
#1419Here We Are
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.
#1420Here We Are
Posted: 12/18/23 at 4:35pm
The idea of this not receiving an album is hilarious. Patience, my dears.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#1421Here We Are
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?
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CityofStrangers
Swing Joined: 11/23/23
#1422Here We Are
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.
#1423Here We Are
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#1424Here We Are
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.
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