TABOO Reunion

[wonkit]

Posted: 1/11/14 at 2:26pm

54 Below site says both shows are sold out in pre-sale. Anyone manage to get tix?

[Taryn]

Posted: 1/11/14 at 2:50pm

There WILL be a few more tickets released on Wednesday at noon to the general public, although with the size of the venue numbers are obviously limited all around. Not quite as crazy as Aaron Tveit's presale, but people are definitely excited!

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 1/11/14 at 2:54pm

I will be at the 8 p.m. show. Thanks to a friend who got the pre-sale email.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 1/11/14 at 3:34pm

WHY DO I LIVE IN MASSACHUSETTS?!?!?!?!

[wonkit]

Posted: 1/11/14 at 3:52pm

I am still not convinced that the "big names" will show up. It can't be worth their while financially, and it will not be with any kind of orchestration in that small a venue. Which is not to say the music won't be wonderful to hear.

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 1/11/14 at 6:04pm

Taryn, I may very well be wrong, but as far as I know, 54 Below put all available seats on sale for the pre-sale and both concerts are truly sold out already.

Updated On: 1/11/14 at 06:04 PM

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 1/11/14 at 6:42pm

I can't believe that thing sold out in less than ten minutes from when the email went out. So pissed.

[wonkit]

Posted: 1/11/14 at 7:56pm

It is such a small venue for something with that much pent up demand.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 1/11/14 at 7:59pm

Is it going to be the Broadway song-stack or the London version?

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 1/11/14 at 8:03pm

Given that it's the Broadway cast, gonna say Broadway even though most of the songs are in the London version anyway.

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 1/11/14 at 8:50pm

Esparza and Morton were the only two good things about this show. I couldn't imagine paying to see it without knowing they were going to appear.

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/11/14 at 10:14pm

I'm not going to this, but I'll be devastated if Raul is in it and sings Petrified and I'm not there. oh well…..

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 1/11/14 at 11:35pm

"Esparza and Morton were the only two good things about this show."

In your opinion.

[Taryn]

Posted: 1/12/14 at 12:07am

Taryn, I may very well be wrong, but as far as I know, 54 Below put all available seats on sale for the pre-sale and both concerts are truly sold out already.

I can tell you with 100% certainty that that is not the case.

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/12/14 at 12:57am

"Esparza and Morton were the only two good things about this show."

Seriously? I thoroughly enjoyed Liz McCartney, Jeffrey Carlson, and yes, I love seeing Boy George.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 1/12/14 at 3:28am

Liz. McCartney and Sarah Uriarte Berry WERE that show.

[wonkit]

Posted: 1/22/14 at 12:11am

No big names as the leads after all. Anyone still planning to go?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/22/14 at 12:36pm

I couldn't justify the expense of flying in to see this without Euan and Raul (I never assumed there was a snowball's chance George would do it), so my decision was made for me a while ago, but I honestly think Jeremy Kushnier is a really good choice. He's always been one of my favorites, and could make an interesting Philip.

That being said, if I were in town, I would have been there in a heartbeat just to hear the score live again (and to be fair, they did get a lot of the OBC, and those supporting performances were fantastic) - and so I suspect, "names" or not, there are plenty of people who will be happy to go just for the show. It did, after all, sell out after Euan had already publicly said he wasn't doing it. And frankly I think most people knew Raul was a longshot anyway. Dude's a little busy.

Updated On: 1/22/14 at 12:36 PM

[newintown]

Posted: 1/22/14 at 12:43pm

I'm looking forward to the 54 Below anniversary concerts of Metro, In My Life, Harrigan 'N Hart, Glory Days, Lennon, and Scandalous, too. They were all such misunderstood masterpieces.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 1/22/14 at 3:54pm

Sorry Newintown but Taboo does not deserve to be in with the like of those shows. It had one hell of a score and where the book collapsed at times it was still one of the most exciting new shows around.

[newintown]

Posted: 1/22/14 at 3:57pm

Oh, I imagine if you looked hard enough you'd find people who liked each of those shows as much as you like Taboo. It's all subjective, y'know. For me, the quality of them all was equally low; for you, it's not.

Chacun à son goût.

[VIETgrlTerifa]

Posted: 1/23/14 at 2:28am

I think Taboo's score was probably the strongest or second strongest score the season it came out (I'd probably put Caroline, or Change as the strongest). Boy George's lyrics with his music (with Kevan Frost
John Themis, and Richie Stevens) outshines the other 80s pop star/Broadway composer, Cyndi Lauper's work in Kinky Boots. Shame that the show was sort of a mess apparently.

[newintown]

Posted: 1/23/14 at 10:17am

Having seen it both in London and the US, I will say that it was a much better show in the US, aided by Charles Busch's much better (if still untenable) book. In London, it was an unending, unintelligible bore; in fact, all I can really remember (other than wanting to escape) was Boy George in his Leigh Bowery drag, camping his way through that effective, if entirely irrelevant song, "Ich bin Kunst."

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 1/23/14 at 8:04pm

Has a full cast been announced?

Without Euan it's really a bust.
And The Raul is too bus? Really?
Though I don't think he would be well received by the survivors.

[wonkit]

Posted: 1/23/14 at 11:12pm

Esparza is filming two different TV series in Toronto and in NYC - if that doesn't constitute "busy," I don't know what does.