Sufjan Stevens & Justin Peck's "Illinois"- Page 5

[yyys]

Posted: 3/13/24 at 8:15pm

It was RippedMan who suggested the Booth, not me.

 DaveyG said: "yyys said: "not this season.. Akimbo is there til April 28th.”

Rumor is the St James.

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[yyys]

Posted: 3/13/24 at 8:24pm

I kinda don't wanna see it just because no one can do justice to Sufjan's vocals.

TaffyDavenport said: "Fairly negative review from the NYT dance critic:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/arts/dance/illinoise-dance-justin-peck.html"

 

[BJR]

Posted: 3/13/24 at 10:16pm

St James is the plan and they very much have made it thinking it was a musical, like Contact or Moving Out.

[pathman2]

Posted: 3/14/24 at 8:29am

Are they trying to open at the St. James by the Tony deadline (4/25)? Is that even possible?

[Sammy232]

Posted: 3/14/24 at 8:31am

yyys said: "I kinda don't wanna see itjust because no one can do justice to Sufjan's vocals.

TaffyDavenport said: "Fairly negative review from the NYT dance critic:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/arts/dance/illinoise-dance-justin-peck.html"

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If you love this album I can't imagine that you would dislike the music here. Especially fully orchestrated with a large-ish pit (I think I read 14?) The three vocalists were incredible and very much fit - they are not your typical broadway voices.

The NYTimes had both theater and dance review? I wonder if that's typical for a show like this? Their reviews couldn't be more different, Jesse Green's was a rave. 

[RippedMan]

Posted: 3/14/24 at 9:09am

Yeah, I said the Booth since it'll be vacant, and would create a "hot ticket" situation. I don't see this selling out the St James or even filling it up that much. But if it's just for ten weeks I think it'd do fine. 

[BETTY22]

Posted: 3/14/24 at 9:32am

I don't think I have seen this before - a rave by the theatre critics and a pan by the dance critics in the same paper....NYT.