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THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#25
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.
Leading Actor Joined: 11/17/11
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#26
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
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#27
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.
Leading Actor Joined: 11/17/11
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#28
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.
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#29
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.
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#30
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#31
Posted: 2/21/24 at 4:14pm
Out of curiosity -- any intel on who the choreographer, designers, and music team are yet?
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#32
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.
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#33
Posted: 3/15/24 at 10:10am
"Caviar Dreams"
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#34
Posted: 3/15/24 at 10:23am
Ohhh I really like this!
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#35
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?
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/30/17
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#36
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.
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#37
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?
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#38
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.
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#39
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.
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#40
Posted: 3/15/24 at 2:45pm
I liked the melody more on the promo for the show than here.
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#41
Posted: 3/15/24 at 6:51pm
Those lyrics are dreadful.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#42
Posted: 3/15/24 at 7:53pm
She sounded good, but oof, it sounded trite and unoriginal.
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#43
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!?!?!)
Leading Actor Joined: 11/17/11
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#44
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.
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#45
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#46
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.
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#47
Posted: 3/15/24 at 11:54pm
flaming tar pits from hell
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#48
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"
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES musical will have pre-Bway tryout this summer in Boston#49
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.
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