Sweeny Todd at the Tilles Center.
Sweeny Todd at the Tilles Center.
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#1Sweeny Todd at the Tilles Center.
Posted: 1/29/09 at 9:34pm
Is anyone else going?
I wasn't even aware that we got national tours here on Long Island but opened my local newspaper and saw and ad for it, I just snagged a second row, centre front orchestra seat. I'm so excited!
If anyone else wants tickets, it's...
Sunday, February 22nd 7:00 P.M.
http://tillescenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&id=271
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#2re: Sweeny Todd at the Tilles Center.
Posted: 1/29/09 at 9:45pmI am from Long Island but I can't see it at the Tilles Center due to the fact that I am in college. However, I am very happy that the same tour is coming to my college town in the middle of February. I am very much looking forward to seeing this particular production of Sweeney even though it is equity. The first and only time I saw it on Broadway was the day after I found out that I needed glasses and before I got them. I was in the mezz via TKTS and my eyes were trying to focus themselves so that I could see and I ended up having a headache trying to watch the show during the first act. In the second act, I closed my eyes and just listened to the story via the music. I thought that that was a better way to enjoy the show since it is mostly if not all sung through and the music for the show really tells the story. I wanted to go back and see it but I never gout around to doing so before it closed.
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#2re: Sweeny Todd at the Tilles Center.
Posted: 1/29/09 at 9:49pm
I just checked the site, we're also getting Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Spelling Bee. Why I never knew the tours came around here, I will never know, but I'm happy I know now.
Winston, I'm happy you get to see it again.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#3re: Sweeny Todd at the Tilles Center.
Posted: 1/29/09 at 9:52pm
My problem with the Tilles Center is that the acoustics are dreadful. It's like attending a performance in a warehouse--tin roof and all!
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#4re: Sweeny Todd at the Tilles Center.
Posted: 1/29/09 at 10:03pmDollypop, I agree with you. The only events I have ever been there for were for both of my brother's high school graduations. This is because a lot of schools on Long Island rent out the Tilles Center to have the graduation at, and the acoustics there were in fact dreadful.
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#5re: Sweeny Todd at the Tilles Center.
Posted: 1/29/09 at 10:11pmI was there a few years back on New Year's eve for the philharmonic(sp?), I don't remember the acoustics that well but I hope I'm close enough that it's not that bad.
#6re: Sweeny Todd at the Tilles Center.
Posted: 1/29/09 at 10:40pmWinston, this tour is NON-Equity.
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#7re: Sweeny Todd at the Tilles Center.
Posted: 1/30/09 at 12:00amYes, I know that the tour is non equity. What's your point. I am under the impression that the equity tour of the Doyle became non equity and that is what I am going to be seeing next month. Trust me, The Garde Arts Center in New London, CT could never house an equity tour.
SweeneyPhanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 1/4/06
#8re: Sweeny Todd at the Tilles Center.
Posted: 1/30/09 at 12:03amHe's just pointing out that you forgot to type the 'non' in your first post.
#9re: Sweeny Todd at the Tilles Center.
Posted: 1/30/09 at 8:10pm
WishingOnlyWounds2, I'm probably going... I should probably go get tickets this weekend.
And the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels performance is actually happening right now.
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#10re: Sweeny Todd at the Tilles Center.
Posted: 1/30/09 at 8:28pmI checked last night, after I got mine, there's a row AAA (first row) centre front orch seat available.
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#11re: Sweeny Todd at the Tilles Center.
Posted: 1/30/09 at 9:32pm
The Mrs. Lovitt, Carrie Cimma seems phenomenal, they have videos on the site...
sweeneyontour.com
#12re: Sweeny Todd at the Tilles Center.
Posted: 1/30/09 at 9:42pmIt's also up on TDF, I think I might go that route just to save myself 50 bucks.
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#13re: Sweeny Todd at the Tilles Center.
Posted: 1/30/09 at 9:43pm
Are you kidding me? That woman is awful!
And I have no idea why she has Pink's haircut. ALso, why is Judge Turpin about 30 years old?
Ah, well. It's non-Equity.
#14re: Sweeny Todd at the Tilles Center.
Posted: 1/31/09 at 12:20am^ Because these aren't the real people. It's a recreation put on by patients & staff in Tobias' Asylum.
#15re: Sweeny Todd at the Tilles Center.
Posted: 1/31/09 at 9:28amAnd I would say she looks more like Cyndi Lauper than Pink... regardless of that she sounds very good.
#16re: Sweeny Todd at the Tilles Center.
Posted: 1/31/09 at 10:28am
I don't really sense any emotion from this cast.
I can't put my finger on what's lacking.
I just don't sense a 'connection' between them
and their material. Just my .02.
#17re: Sweeny Todd at the Tilles Center.
Posted: 1/31/09 at 11:31am
I wouldn't judge too much from promo videos. Plus a sense of detachment could really work in this version of Sweeney because of the fact that they're all supposed to asylum inmates acting out the story as opposed to living the story.
I'm looking forward to it a lot more now actually. Watching those videos reminded me how much I really miss this show. And I don't have to travel across the country like I've done the past two years to see the tour, so that's a plus!
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