THE MUSIC MAN Previews — Page 15

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. 

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.

 

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.

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.

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.

 

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. 

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.

Deleting my post

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

Yikes...

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

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).

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.

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.