THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston- Page 2

[dramamama611]

Posted: 2/20/24 at 11:43am

Pre-sale has started, for anyone that has limited availiblity to attend.  It's certainly selling, but nothing crazy.  A few dates are listed as "limited" but none as low.  (Opeining night appears to only have made the balcony available for sale.)

Prices range from 40 (rear balcony) to almost 300 (which include a "package".   I got two front row mezz tickets for 315 total, including fees.  (139 base price.)  It's a pretty big place, 1700 seats. 

For anyone interested in the access code (QOV),   ATG for tickets, easily accesible through the shows website.

[CJRochester]

Posted: 2/20/24 at 3:01pm

Here's the presale ticket link (which needs the code others have mentioned) https://www.emersoncolonialtheatre.com/events/the-queen-of-versailles/calendar/

Updated On: 2/20/24 at 03:01 PM

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 2/20/24 at 3:06pm

That's not a link to the presale. It still needs the code, which is QOV (for the third time).

Not sure if it's a fan presale thing, but the prices seem on the low side, which is great. Since it's ATG, though, I'm guessing dynamic pricing could kick in at some point, and I'd expect prices to be higher for the possible one-week extension that's built in to the run.

Updated On: 2/20/24 at 03:06 PM

[CJRochester]

Posted: 2/20/24 at 3:09pm

Correct, just use the code you already provided along with the link. I thought it would be helpful to include the link, rather than having to go back and find it on the show's website. 

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 2/20/24 at 8:19pm

For those looking to do the Gatsby/Versailles weekend, good availability in Mezz on Friday but Saturday very sold already with no matinee performance. 

[VernonGersch]

Posted: 2/21/24 at 2:27pm

Good for them for selling so well.   Scored a great pair of tickets (love me an aisle seat in the front)

Michael Arden is a genius and hello Stephen Schwartz.  Cannot wait. 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 2/21/24 at 4:14pm

Out of curiosity -- any intel on who the choreographer, designers, and music team are yet?

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 2/28/24 at 11:00am

The production will also feature choreography by Lauren Yalango-Grant & Christopher Cree Grant(Parade), music supervision by Mary-Mitchell Campbell (Some Like it Hot and Water for Elephants), scenic design by Dane Laffrey (Parade, Once on This Island), costume design by fashion designer to the stars Christian Cowan, lighting design by six-time Tony Award winner Natasha Katz (Sweeney Todd, Real Women Have Curves at the A.R.T.), sound design by Tony Award winner Peter Hylenski (Beetlejuice, Moulin Rouge! The Musical), and casting by C12 Casting.

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 3/15/24 at 10:10am

"Caviar Dreams"

 

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 3/15/24 at 10:23am

Ohhh I really like this!

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 3/15/24 at 10:31am

Didn't love that but interested in hearing more and not going to judge a score by one song.

Also...Kristin's playing child Jackie too?

[CoffeeBreak]

Posted: 3/15/24 at 10:58am

Didn't care for this either here or in workshop.

It's good Arden kept  Lauren Yalango-Grant & Christopher Cree Grant for Versailles.  They are the true "genius" behind Parade.

Updated On: 3/15/24 at 10:58 AM

[OhHiii]

Posted: 3/15/24 at 11:36am

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Also...Kristin's playing child Jackie too?"

Do you know a child who makes a minimum wage salary as mentioned in the first line of the song?

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 3/15/24 at 11:48am

OhHiii said: "ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Also...Kristin's playing child Jackie too?"

Do you know a child who makes a minimum wage salary as mentioned in the first line of the song?"

As Schwartz says around 1:10 in the video, the song is sung by "teenage Jackie Mallory" ruminating on watching Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous with her parents. I assume the pedestrian nature of the lyrics is also related to this being a child singing.

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 3/15/24 at 2:34pm

I assume the pedestrian nature of the lyrics is also related to this being a child singing.

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You’re giving a Schwartz a lot more credit and latitude than I ever could.  I already have my tickets and excited to see this because of Kristin, but those lyrics are pretty trite and the rhyme coupling very lazy. 

[Broadway Flash]

Posted: 3/15/24 at 2:45pm

I liked the melody more on the promo for the show than here. 

[ljay889]

Posted: 3/15/24 at 6:51pm

Those lyrics are dreadful.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 3/15/24 at 7:53pm

She sounded good, but oof, it sounded trite and unoriginal.

[ScottK]

Posted: 3/15/24 at 9:04pm

I'd love to know why the lyrics are "dreadful"/"pedestrian."  I actually think they're quite clever and fun--esp at the top of the song. It's VERY Wicked-ish but without the Harburg-ian word extensions of made up words to make rhymes.  Yes, its tough cause he's stuck with "dreams" and "wishes" to make couplets. But nothing was clunky. What modern scores (5 yrs or less---written by the "new" generation) have been so much better? (and, yes, there are plenty that I admire--but if these are "dreadful"---have you seen this year's new Bway shows!?!?!)

[CJRochester]

Posted: 3/15/24 at 10:00pm

I like the song. It's a great "I want" number. I got chills when she hit that high note at the end. If the show itself is any good this could get her another Tony nomination. 

[ljay889]

Posted: 3/15/24 at 10:47pm

ScottK said: "I'd love to know why the lyrics are "dreadful"/"pedestrian." I actually think they're quite clever and fun--esp at the top of the song. It's VERY Wicked-ish but without the Harburg-ian word extensions of made up words to make rhymes. Yes, its tough cause he's stuck with "dreams" and "wishes" to make couplets. But nothing was clunky. What modern scores (5 yrs or less---written by the "new" generation)have been so much better? (and, yes, there are plenty that I admire--but if these are "dreadful"---have you seen this year's new Bway shows!?!?!)"

I was finishing the rhymes in my head before they were sung. That is never a good sign. 
Adam Guettel, David Yazbek, and Jason Robert Brown are of the “newer generation” and I don’t think they would write lyrics as cringey as that song.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 3/15/24 at 11:44pm

CJRochester said: "If the show itself is any good this could get her another Tony nomination."

Big IF. Cheno has had a weird run with the Tonys. Won on her first nomination, didn't get nominated for Promises Promises or Apple Tree in weak years, lost to her costar for Wicked and, somewhat surprisingly, to Kelli O'Hara in 2015.

[Impeach2017]

Posted: 3/15/24 at 11:54pm

flaming tar pits from hell

[ScottK]

Posted: 3/16/24 at 1:38am

Thx for your reply! But by "new", I purposely wrote 5 yrs or less--I love much of the work of your 3 composers, but at this stage in their careers NONE of them are new. Esp since most of them have 3+ Bway shows each already. And, if you havent seen THE CONNECTOR yet---GO GO GO----nonetheless--the lyrics to this QoV song were not "dreadful"

[Melissa25]

Posted: 3/16/24 at 9:28am

Unoriginal originality from the flaming tar pits of hell sounds like a must buy for me. After investigating the seating/price/shlep ratio, I am waiting for it to come to Broadway though.