TAKE ME OUT Fall 2022 Thread

We’re heading to extra innings!

A return engagement of last season’s Tony-winning Best Revival of a Play, Take Me Out, begins performances tomorrow night at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Most of the cast from last spring’s run at the Helen Hayes is intact, with Bill Heck replacing Patrick J. Adams as Kippy; Jesse Williams and Tony winner Jesse Tyler Ferguson lead the company. Take Me Out is written by Richard Greenberg, and direction is by Scott Ellis; it will play a limited run set to conclude on February 5.

I included a brief synopsis in the March preview thread for this revival and will not do it here, since it may still be fresh in everyone’s heads.

Who’s stepping up to the plate?

Updated On: 10/28/22 at 12:00 AM

I hope to see it a few times (gotta check the quality of the water in those showers!)

I have tickets for the October 30th Sunday matinee through TDF. I checked the ticket site and there are tons of unsold premium and orchestra tickets for that performance. Hoping it means I might end up with a great seat!

A couple new production photos... performances begin tonight!

Any first performance thoughts?

I also want to mention that the spring run began just as the MLB ended their lockout; as this fall engagement commences, Game 1 of the World Series is tomorrow night. 

Updated On: 10/27/22 at 11:38 PM

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I revisited the show again on Wednesday.

Everyone remains in top form and the show has adjusted well to its larger theatre.

Williams and Ferguson remain stellar, with Williams definitely sinking more into the role emotionally. To me, the afternoon belonged to Heck and Oberholtzer. Patrick J. Adams was great, and Heck seems like a step up from him. There was a lot more empathy in his Kippy and a very world-weary intelligence that is needed to really sell the character as a narrator. 

Oberholtzer - my god. He has gotten so much better since the first run (and he was my MVP the first time around). The final scene in the police station, opposite Heck and Williams, was perfectly pitched and him screaming “I WANNA PLAY!” as he’s being carried off sealed the fact that he has created a character you care about despite being a rather unsavory person.

If you missed it the first time, GO NOW

I saw this the other day. I’d seen a community college production of it a while back and was so bored by it and by the community college-level acting that I eventually just stopped paying attention. With this production, I paid attention but was still pretty bored. I just don’t think it’s a very good play, and the acting wasn’t good enough to carry it. Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Bill Heck were the standouts for me. I’ve never thought Jesse Williams is a very good actor and I still don’t think so. He doesn’t have the presence or the swagger that the character requires. (He’s also too old for the part. It makes no sense when he’s told that he’s too young for retirement when clearly he’s not.) Michael Olberholtzer does little more than speak in a stereotypical accent and then yell really loud for his big “Tony, please?” scene. There’s no nuance to the performance at all. The direction by Scott Ellis was fairly rote and uninspired.

Updated On: 11/4/22 at 04:20 PM

Dollypop said: "Saw the play this afternoon with a TDF ticket. I was in the very first row dead center I had no problem assessing the quality of water in the shower scenes."

You noticed the water? 

Dollypop said: "From the first row I npticed EVERYTHING."

Yes, I got wet. Y’know…the water. 

I saw Jesse Williams was out for both shows today and Blake Russell was on. Would love to hear if anyone saw his performance.

ACL2006 said: "I'm just curious as to why this was brought back? The return doesn't seem to be selling well."

Maybe because it's a riviting theatrical experience?