The Public Theater - Ethan Lipton’s “The Seat of Our Pants”- Page 3

[PipingHotPiccolo]

Posted: 11/26/25 at 11:11pm

i think our seats were TDF and they were in the rear/back section--though there were plenty of empty seats in both sections if you want to bounce around.

[Jonathan Cohen]

Posted: 11/28/25 at 1:12pm

Having no prior experience with the material, this musical is both incredibly pretentious and makes fun of it's own pretentiousness, with the Micaela Diamond role pretending to break character to complain about the project. The point being it feels like any possible approach to the material was shoe horned in. It's overstuffed. 

While I enjoyed individual moments and songs, on the whole this feels like the type of overly long show you deserve a medal for sitting through to the end. To their credit, they did hand out stickers.

[Falsettolands]

Posted: 11/28/25 at 1:22pm

Jonathan Cohen said: "Having no prior experience with the material, this musical is both incredibly pretentious and makes fun of it's own pretentiousness, with theMicaela Diamond role pretending to breakcharacter to complain about the project. The point being it feels like any possible approach to the material was shoe horned in. It'soverstuffed.



While I enjoyed individual moments and songs, on the whole this feels like the type of overly long show you deserve a medal for sitting through to the end. To their credit, they did hand out stickers."

to Lipton’s credit, the breaking of the fourth wall to comment on the material is quite literally also baked into The Skin Of Our Teeth. This is not exactly a device Lipton invented- it’s in the spirit of the play Wilder wrote.

[Jonathan Cohen]

Posted: 11/28/25 at 2:01pm

That's interesting. I thought it was extremely funny in the moment, but between the time jumps, and some actors playing different characters, breaking the fourth wall made it too narratively chaotic. I'm sure that's intentional, it just didn't work for me.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 11/29/25 at 11:55am

I saw this again last night and loved it even more than my first viewing. The pace has tightened substantially, though it still slows down late into act 3, before waking up again for that banger finale.

Ruthie Ann Miles and Michaela Diamond continue to be the show’s MVPs. They’re both digging so deep into these performances, with Miles in particular bringing an attack to the material that must be incredibly therapeutic; she’s really one of our best actors working today.

If you haven’t seen it yet, you have a week left. I sat on both sides of the theater at this point, and wherever you sit is great. Rush it, buy full price, do what you gotta do.

[NativeNYer2]

Posted: 11/29/25 at 2:11pm

Could this be a contender for the Drama Desk for Puppetry?  What other shows even have puppets this season?