West Side Story revival?- Page 18

[joevitus]

Posted: 9/14/19 at 9:53pm

Dolly80 said: "There will be LOTS of video in the show and also a lot of rain on stage. That’s all I’ve managed to get out of my friend working on it so far."

The rain is particularly odd, as there was no storm in the Laurents script. May work, though.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 9/15/19 at 7:41am

Pretty sure weather doesnt affect original intent...its not a huge thing.

I also find rain on stage breathtaking.

[Dolly80]

Posted: 9/15/19 at 7:59am

Yes good point... didn’t it rain blood (tomato soup) at the end of A view from the Bridge?

[Steven A2]

Posted: 9/15/19 at 8:08am

Dolly80 said: "Yes good point... didn’t it rain blood (tomato soup) at the end of A view from the Bridge?"

Yes. It was a stunning end of a captivating production. Updated On: 9/15/19 at 08:08 AM

[BJR]

Posted: 9/15/19 at 11:43am

Count me intrigued. I'm usually think video is used poorly in theatre, but with such an unexpected treatment for West Side, I'm intrigued.

What Ivo and his partner do best is storytelling in primal colors and use space to convey character, so extremely intrigued to see how video and rain might do that...

[Johnsylva]

Posted: 10/30/19 at 8:49pm

Is there a fluke with Telecharge going on -- or is this show actually selling like CRAZY? I'm looking at tickets for 12/28, 12/29, and 12/30, and there are maybe 10 total seats available among all of those performances... what!?

https://www.telecharge.com/Broadway/West-Side-Story/Overview

[ModernMillie3]

Posted: 10/30/19 at 9:05pm

So, the busiest month of the year for NYC, leading up to New Years Eve.....you don't think it would be busy?  Why don't you check some dates for anything past the first week of January. 

No, it's not selling like crazy and no, there's nothing wrong with Telecharge. 

[magictodo123]

Posted: 10/30/19 at 9:06pm

I don't think  there's a fluke--it seems like this show is actually selling out!! Exciting for the team, very interesting. 

[ModernMillie3]

Posted: 10/30/19 at 9:11pm

[Johnsylva]

Posted: 10/30/19 at 9:16pm

ModernMillie3 said: "So, the busiest month of the year for NYC, leading up to New Years Eve.....you don't think it would be busy? Why don't you check some dates for anything past the first week of January.

No, it's not selling like crazy and no, there's nothing wrong with Telecharge."


Why the attitude? The fact that it's sold about 90% more seats during those dates than MOULIN ROUGE!, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, and TINA is pretty remarkable to me...I see at least seven shows every New Year's week and this is by far the strongest seller I've seen this far out. Also if you've never experienced an issue with Telecharge properly showing seating availability, then...you must be truly entitled to be so rude. Bravo.

Updated On: 10/30/19 at 09:16 PM

[ModernMillie3]

Posted: 10/30/19 at 9:17pm

As mentioned in the other thread, many seats are being held back. Someone mentioned probably hundreds of them. It hasn't sold more than anyone, especially Moulin Rouge. Trust. 

[LuPita2]

Posted: 10/30/19 at 9:20pm

Yes, I heard that as well. Not uncommon for a show in previews for a lot of seats to be held back or held for special guests of the production. 

[Johnsylva]

Posted: 10/30/19 at 9:25pm

A-ha...makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!

[Highland Guy]

Posted: 10/30/19 at 9:28pm

ModernMillie3 said: ""

THIS  is how you respond to Magic's comments?  Very telling.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 10/31/19 at 11:11am

While West Side Story is absolutely a well-known property and will most likely sell better than people are expecting (at least until it opens), you have to understand that unless a show is obviously a blockbuster (like Moulin Rouge), the producers are definitely holding seats for later release. It may be selling better in the week between Christmas and NYE simply because of that being the busiest week of the year in the city, but it’s pretty naïve to think this is genuinely selling out in advance.

And I’m actually excited for this production, before anyone says I’m being a pessimist about it.

Updated On: 10/31/19 at 11:11 AM

[Kad]

Posted: 10/31/19 at 11:13am

Productions hold a couple dozen seats, not the majority of a house. They need to make money and creating artificial scarcity isn't a way to do that. 

Updated On: 10/31/19 at 11:13 AM

[ljay889]

Posted: 11/9/19 at 10:38am

Well it’s as terrible as we thought
One act
I feel Pretty and the full Somewhere ballet cut

https://www.vogue.com/article/west-side-story-broadway-ivo-van-hove

[JBroadway]

Posted: 11/9/19 at 10:39am

ljay889 said: "Well it’s as terrible as we thought
One act
I feel Pretty and the full Somewhere ballet cut

https://www.vogue.com/article/west-side-story-broadway-ivo-van-hove"

 

Sounds good to me! Speak for yourself! 

[binau]

Posted: 11/9/19 at 10:44am

"Van Hove has also revealed that he will utilize video to further captivate audiences.

"The biggest challenge will be to seduce them to follow our way of telling this story," he said."

It sounds awful, but I will admit at least it is Something Different. I personally wouldn't be that excited about a 'traditional' revival so soon after the last.

 

[Robbie2]

Posted: 11/9/19 at 4:40pm

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 11/10/19 at 12:06am

https://twitter.com/rachelzegler/status/1193227716050505729?s=21

[JBC3]

Posted: 11/10/19 at 9:04am

If Telecharge is to be believed, this is selling well in December. Checked for tickets on a couple of weekend dates and only a handful of the highest priced premium were available. The current discount code doesn't kick in until January ... which kind of makes sense given the typical lull at the start of the year.

[Rose2]

Posted: 11/19/19 at 5:34pm

What is the discount code that kicks in sometime in January?

[JBC3]

Posted: 11/19/19 at 7:10pm

Rose2 said: "What is the discount code that kicks in sometime in January?"

WSTMC1030 according to Theatermania

[Rosette3]

Posted: 11/19/19 at 7:44pm

Checked Telecharge for prices with code ($45 Tix only valid Tues-Thurs so not useful to out of towner me) but I noticed that the ticket limit is a whopping 25 tickets person, per 7 day period. Is this unusually high? I wonder if this will inevitably lead to a Hadestown scenario (there's was 19 ticket limit) where large amounts of tickets get scooped up for secondary market in anticipation of high demand therefore making it oversaturated and pretty easy to get last minute tickets at a deep discount on StubHub when sellers are trying to offload.