This show is so hysterical. I was one of the lucky lottery winners tonight, and I'm so glad I got to see it again with the original cast (I once saw the show when it first opened). I kept watching the cast on the bleachers because they were trying so hard to hold caricature expressions and not to laugh. Dan Fogler covered his face at one point with his contestant number. The Rent/Phantom/Ave Q/Cats referencing was great, as was Dan Fogler's obscenity shouting and gesturing, Olive's realization about the "silent" word she could call her mother, Leaf Coneybear's fall off the bleachers, and yes, those crazy pandas...
I like this version of the show is better (I found the second half to be more consistently funny this way), and the audience was as excited as the cast tonight too. I'm so glad it was still as good as I'd remembered it.
"I thought that that was just going to be a like one shot deal for me, you know, but they kept talking about it like, 'when we do the production, when we do the production', and I was like, 'yes, yes, when you do the production, cool, I will come and see it'". - John Gallagher Jr. on SA