THE MUSIC MAN Previews- Page 15

[Kad]

Posted: 12/28/21 at 8:28pm

This is a major setback for a production so early in previews and with a lot of expectations riding on it. Instead of being able to work out kinks and tightening up the show, they’ve got to focus solely on being able to have the show run at all. Hopefully they can overcome it. 

[poisonivy2]

Posted: 12/28/21 at 8:38pm

There are plenty of $99 seats available for the Jan 2 - 5 performances ...

[cambell22]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 8:50am

Wick3 said: "Yep I also checked tix for Jan 2-6 and they're still selling orchestra seats for $699. I wonder if we'll see Music Man on TKTS."

After the 12/21 eve performance of Assassins was cancelled I got a ticket to The Music Man for that night! The cost was $279, row N seat 112. So they do lower the prices.

 

[Wick3]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 9:04am

cambell22 said: "Wick3 said: "Yep I also checked tix for Jan 2-6 and they're still selling orchestra seats for $699. I wonder if we'll see Music Man on TKTS."

After the 12/21 eve performance of Assassins was cancelled I got a ticket to The Music Man for that night! The cost was $279, row N seat 112. So they do lower the prices.

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That's awesome! Yeah that makes sense as that seat would have gone unsold at $699.

 

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 9:20am

pmensky said: "One of the merchandise sellers at the Winter Garden wrote a scathing Twitter post about the working conditions on and off stage at the theater. He said there were 14 actors out yesterday as well as crew, wardrobe, musicians, etc., and swings were split tracking up to 5 roles."

Do you have the link to this post?

I highly doubt the show will play without Hugh, and now without Max. The cast is obviously overworked and dropping like flies, and the number of cancellations from Hugh being out will just lead to cancelling the shows outright. There's a reason Boy From Oz went dark when he was out.

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 10:03am

Now it’s dark until he feels better. 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 10:32am

Having the u/s go on for a few performances instead of the producers paying the actors to sit home is the lone reason to have performances those days. It also gives people the opportunity to see the show without paying top dollar.

[babykitty_00]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 12:00pm

ACL2006 said: "Having the u/s go on for a few performances instead of the producers paying the actors to sit home is the lone reason to have performances those days. It also gives people the opportunity to see the show without paying top dollar."

Yes, but to be brutally honest, does anyone really want to see this without Hugh Jackman?? Like a previous poster said, there is a reason Boy From Oz was dark when Jackman was out.

[Wick3]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 12:32pm

I don't really see any discounts for Jan 2-5. Orchestra seats are $279 and cheapest regular price tickets are side mezz seats at $99. Everything else in between those price ranges.

I'd consider those prices to be top dollar given the headliner won't be performing.

 

[George in DC]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 12:33pm

Given a real good discount, I would travel north to see Max Clayton do the role. I refuse to pay the prices to see Hugh Jackman do it - I'd like to , but I'm on a budget.

Updated On: 12/29/21 at 12:33 PM

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 12:51pm

I couldn't care less about seeing Hugh, it's sad they canceled these performances as a lot of people would pay to see this production at much lower prices. What is the point of having understudies/alternates if they are not being used? Lame. 

[adotburr]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 1:16pm

SouthernCakes said: "Now it’s dark until he feels better."

Unless you know something Telecharge doesn't, tickets are still being sold from Sunday, January 2, through Wednesday, January 5, 2022..

[ACL2006]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 1:23pm

babykitty_00 said: "ACL2006 said: "Having the u/s go on for a few performances instead of the producers paying the actors to sit home is the lone reason to have performances those days. It also gives people the opportunity to see the show without paying top dollar."

Yes, but to be brutally honest, does anyone really want to see this without Hugh Jackman?? Like a previous poster said, there is a reason Boy From Oz was dark when Jackman was out."

 

Definitely think there's enough interest from the theater community to grab a cheap ticket to see Clayton or Sean Montgomery in the role for these select few performances.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 1:33pm

I think you are over exaggerating how much Max Clayton and Sean Montgomery are able to sell the show. Not even Donna Murphy, a major Broadway star, was able to sell out her performances as Dolly Levi. I think the show should really consider bringing in a Broadway star for Hugh’s future absences. Like Brian d’Arcy James or Norm Lewis.

[Highland Guy]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 1:46pm

Deleting my post

Updated On: 12/29/21 at 01:46 PM

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 2:20pm

If Sutton is on, people will still come to see her with Sean Montgomery as Harold Hil (sounds like it has to be Montgomery since Clayton also has COVID). She has a huge fan base and is a true Broadway star. If both leads are out though, they will need to be practically giving out tickets for free for those days.

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 3:02pm

Yikes...

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 3:16pm

Yep, I was just looking at Telecharge and came to comment the same. Sunday evening is just as bad; the Tuesday and Wednesday shows only slightly less so.

I don't really care for The Music Man as a show, but I might be tempted to see it with Sutton alone...but certainly not at those prices. That dynamic pricing better kick in soon if they don't want to be playing to near-empty houses. It's insane that it hasn't yet.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 3:17pm

I'd assume it'll be up at TKTS for those performances that Hugh is out.

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 3:26pm

Just saying I don’t think we will be seeing Hugh’s understudies. 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 3:28pm

At least both Sutton & Hugh are getting their Covid out of the way now, at the beginning of performances so they can come back and hopefully have a few months of immunity from it (if it still works that way).

[BCfitasafiddle]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 3:35pm

Jordan Catalano said: "At least both Sutton & Hugh are getting their Covid out of the way now, at the beginning of performances so they can come back and hopefully have a few months of immunity from it (if it still works that way)."

That's what I was thinking.

[SweetLips22]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 3:38pm

I am only judging from brief clips and photos but in all of them Hugh is grinning like a cheshire? cat and giving a performance like 'gee but it's good to be here' .  Shipoopi?  looks as interesting as a hall dance night.

Hugh would have been brilliant in the movie Chicago and even guest appearances in it on Broadway but nah!, not for HH the way he seem to be playing him. I would like someone a little more shop worn and  knocked around by life on the road. There would have been a 'Marian' in every town for him but something about her breaks through to find that softness that resides in all of us no matter how we try to hide it. Whether that arc is there I do not know but that's how I would like to see my HH.

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 4:34pm

I know I could simply Google this, but have the leads in this ever been award baiting roles? In the way that, say, something like Dolly and Gypsy would be.

[ArtMan]

Posted: 12/29/21 at 4:49pm

In the 2000 revival, both leads, Craig Bierko and Rebecca Luker, were nominated for lead.  Of course, Robert Preston won lead and Barbara Cook's Marian, won supporting.