Twelfth Night - Shakespear In The Park — Page 4

I saw the raccoon. That was kind of hilarious. Overall I liked this production, just a little more than the 2003 one. It was a little less innovative (particularly in the set), but a little more solid and a bit funnier.

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and I can't really figure out a time when I can actually go wait and wait in the Park for tickets.

There is a whole month of performances, maybe I'll get lucky at some point.

Sorry guys, I did! But I did fail miserably at Hair like 4 times, plus the rest of my family failed the same 4 times, so we're at 20 fails?

Question about seating, is it ground or are there chairs? My grandmother's coming with me and I need to tell her if she needs to bring something to sit on or not. Thanks!

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thanks!

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I've been going to Shakespeare in the Park for many years now. In my opinion, the last few years have been the worst regarding tickets. It used to be that if you showed up early and were at the front of the line, you got the best seats (early bird catches the worm). But now they give the best seats to their corporate sponsors and so showing up and waiting on line doesn't always get you a good seat. I've gotten much better seats by getting on line at showtime and getting unused tickets.

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I was rained out of a performance of HAMLET last summer. At 7:30 p.m., the performance was set to go on. Then it started downpouring and didn't stop. They announced every few minutes that they were going to wait it out and see if the weather would cooperate.

As the production was roughly 3.5 hours long, the performance was cancelled at about 9 p.m., because everyone needs to be out of the Park by midnight.

"How far in advance of the curtain might they cancel the show because of rain?"

I think the rule is that everyone pretty much shows up no matter what and they wait it out.

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It's okay. Last year me and my roommate got up early and made the trek into the city to sit and wait. It was about 8am, and it's about an hour ride from Brooklyn. So we were up early. We got there, got settled. And the guy came down the line and was like "Yeah, it's suppose to rain horribly today, so it'll probably be canceled." And it was. Lame.

Anyone know if the show went on tonight?

Anyone go? I'm curious to know what the design is like.

i didn't realize that Hamish Linklater is the guy on New Adventures of Old Christine. he was the biggest stand out.

does anyone know if the musical numbers were added in just in the production or if any other productions have had the songs before?

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Ditto to what cubanpab said. The show was fantastic! It stopped for maybe 10-15 minutes 30 minutes into it, but it wasn't bad. I was surprised to read here that people didn't get tickets because it was pretty empty, then again it was gross out. As per the songs, most Shakespeare plays (if you believe he wrote them, which is another discussion entirely) have songs in them, and from what I remember from high school the lyrics were what were originally intended. As for the music, it was composed by HEM who (according to the playbill) "consists of songwriters/producers Dan Messe and Gary Maurer, songwriter Steve Curtis, and vocalist Sally Ellyson". If that answers any questions...
That being said, phenomenal production, and the last song was quite relevant tonight! (the word "rain" was used many times....)

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scott68, Phillip Glass is doing the music for The Bacchae, not this production.