hearthemsing22 said: "Dirty Rotten Scoundrel said: "Saw this tonight and had a blast. I'm not super familiar with Huey Lewis and the News' music apart from his big singles but thoroughly enjoyed myself. The cast was giving it their all - especially with some very physical choreography - and the vocals were top notch. There was a minor issue with the sound mixing at the top of Act 1, but they quickly fixed it and the show sounded great for the remainder. While I think it'll be an uphill battle for this production on Broadway, especially in such a crowded season,I could see this being pretty successful on tour. I'd also be remiss if I didn't give a special shoutout to Corey Cott's arms because my goodness - even from the balcony they looked phenomenal. That does bring me to my main complaint - which isn't to do with the show but with the theater...and please indulge me while I go on a brief rant about an experience we had this evening.
If you're over 5'3", avoid the front row of the balcony; it offers virtually nolegroom, perhaps 7", which is about 40-50% less than other rows.My boyfriend and I were experiencing discomfort, bridging on pain,due to ourshins being shoved against the railing. The balcony was only about 40% full, so we quickly moved ourselves across the aisle and a row back midway through Act 1, and were immediately reprimanded by an usher. We quietly explained that it was physically painful for us to sit in those seats, but she said it didn't matter and that we couldn't switch. While I normally wouldn't argue, I gestured to all of the empty seats in the balcony and asked if we could please stay, butshe insisted we go back to our original seats, so we did. We were on the aisle so my boyfriend was able to cross his leg into the stairs, buthis foot wound up being slightly against the railing. We were then reprimanded by a different usher due to this. We apologized and said there was literally nowhere else for us to put our legs. He left and then seemed to reconsider because he came back 5 minutes later to tell us we could move.
If the balcony was more full, we would have been fine to grin and bear it, but given how empty it was, it seemed ridiculous.AndI'm a bit miffed because I hate disrupting fellow theatergoers - and after multiple disruptions we wound up right in the exact seats we'd moved to earlier. Had they just let us stay, there would've been no disruption to anyone else. This wasalso made more bizarre due to the fact thatthere were multiple audience memberstalkingor on their phones during the performance, none of whom were reprimanded.Anyway, myapologies if anyone here wasin the balcony this evening that we may have disturbed!"
If you moved during the first act, it's very likely that they were ensuring no one came in late. Even if there were empty seats around you, the people paid for those seats and they would want to sit there. You'd cause a disturbance to the people around you with moving and the latecomers getting settled too. It's likely the usher checked with house management to make sure those seats were open."
I think it’s a rule regardless of the number of people seated in a section. Years ago my friend and I had comps to a Wednesday matinee of Rocky. We were in the front row of the center section of the mezzanine, and we were the only two people in that section. There were probably fewer than eight people in the entire mezzanine. Twenty minutes into the show we decided to move back a row, and an usher pounced on us. We didn’t even respond to her, but just looked at each other and simultaneously said, “Do you want to leave?”and we both walked out and had a long lunch.
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