Urgent PACIFIC OVERTURES Question(s)!!

If you really must see this production go to TKTS booth first.

A better bet, however, would be for you to scrape the idea of seeing the production.

It would cost you less, and I believe you'd get more out of it if you:

1. Buy the OBC (estimate $20)
2. Buy a copy of the book (try The Drama Bookshop on W. 40th between B'way and 8th Ave) (estimate $20)

$40 bucks total (but it'll cost less)

one ticket for this production: $50+

I got $25 general rush tickets to the matinee shortly after the box office opened on a Saturday, and the seats were not bad. I don't think you should have any problem getting tickets.

I also got $25 ticets at the box office the day of the performance. I can't imagine it being too difficult. Seats at the very top row of the theatre (row NN I believe) were only $25. I'm not sure if they still are, this was over a month ago. I recommend going to see it!

I loved this production and can only recommend it to everyone.

Studio 54 has two different rush tickets:
$25 for general rush located in the rear mezz (which is not bad at this theatre), available when the box office opens at 10am,
$46.25 for student rush, bests seats available (usually front orchestra or mezz), available 30 minutes before curtain.

Go and see it

QM

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Glebb, the words words "lavish" and "Roundabout" and "production" don't belong in the same sentence.

There is no such thing, in my opinion.

Updated On: 1/8/05 at 09:17 AM

Glebb, Webster's defines lavish as

1 : expending or bestowing profusely : PRODIGAL
2 a : expended or produced in abundance b : marked by profusion or excess

That was not in evidence in the Roundabout production of FOLLIES that I saw at the Belasco.

Maybe I wasn't wearing my rose-colored glasses that evening.

The important thing is that you saw the production and enjoyed it. To your eyes it may have been lavish, to my eyes it was not. Theatre is a personal thing. Theatre that succeeds is theatre that speaks personally to the audience. We all leave with something different, but somehow changed by the experience.

Well, it seems, as with Pacific Overtures, those who saw the original Prince production of Follies were underwhelmed by the revival.

Which makes sense.

But to all who were'nt fortunate enough to see the Oriignal Production, the Revival was stunning and glorious.

No matter what way you paint it, Sondheim is Sondheim is Sondheim, and any production of one of his shows on Broadway will be marvelous. But, for one reason or another, have its detractors. Some bash them unfairly. But it is what it is.

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I am seeing it tonight. Can't wait.

Every year, I use money from my income tax refund to buy a subscription series to Roundabout for me and my daughter. The ticket price for an adult averages out to about $50, and for anyone under 19, $25. It's quite a deal. Anyway, we were supposed to go last Sunday, and had wonderful Front Mezz seats. But due to a conflict with a memorial service for a friend, I had to trade them in (another advantage of a subscription). Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, my only option for trading (on my end) was tonight. The only seats they could give me were in the last couple rows of the balcony. Of course, better seats may open up tonight...one never knows.

Doesn't matter. I'm still excited. And off to find my binoculars.

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iflitifloat--that's where I sat the first time I saw this show, and it's really not bad. As was posted on previous threads--you will miss some of the action that is staged in the aisles, and there are some overhead effects that will (briefly) partially obscure your view, but you will also get the best perspective on the choreography and the relationship among and between the players.

I subsequently sat downstairs, and it's really 50/50.

If you have them, bring binoculars, but it's not a huge space.

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The stage is an island with water around it on three sides. You don't really get that from the orchestra seats. For this one you WANT to be in the Mezzanine.

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You don't entirely miss it, bta212, but you certainly don't get a full view of it from the Mezz. Still, I think the stage pictures are, in general, best appreciated upstairs.

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