Posted: 12/17/24 at 7:49pm
BrodyFosse123 said: "FYI: today is December 17, 2024. December 12 was 5 days ago."
Such brilliance!
Posted: 12/18/24 at 11:39am
Prime seats available (in 100 section and 200 section) for $60.00 each (all inclusive with fees) by using code 60MORE - Ends Thursday December 19 at 11:59 PM.
Posted: 12/18/24 at 11:46am
So, to my understanding this is an Equity version of a previously Non-Eq tour. How does that work? Did the cast all join Equity? Is Whoopi in on a Production waiver? What's the deal with the union status of this show?
Posted: 12/18/24 at 12:08pm
'Annie’ Review: Whoopi Goldberg Is a Holiday Gift as Miss Hannigan
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/theater/annie-review-whoopi-goldberg.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iU4.s-ux.YMRocluy5y2A
Posted: 12/18/24 at 12:23pm
The code CERTK3 worked for me as well at Ticketmaster. Front of Section 200 for $51 w/fees
Posted: 12/20/24 at 5:36am
Does Whoopi do all performances each week?
Posted: 12/21/24 at 1:28am
FYI - I just received my TDF tickets for Monday night and they are rather poor given the discounts floating around. Section 202 row V. Normally I always look forward to the TDF tickets but the promoters / box office could have done better here in my view. So I recommend buying your own seats on a comparable discount. Happy holidays nevertheless!
Posted: 12/22/24 at 2:48pm
This is cute holiday fun. Nothing more, nothing less. It's a very traditional production of Annie in every way. Whoopi is fun, but it just seemed like she was going through the motions a bit. I liked the set design - it's always nice to see a solid physical set instead of a giant projection screen at the back of the stage.
A good way to spend a few hours and get some holiday cheer!
Updated On: 12/22/24 at 02:48 PM
Posted: 12/29/24 at 4:43am
They charge fees at the box office now? I bought a ticket at the box office using code 50SMILE that the site said was $39 before fees and $52.50 after fees. I went to the box office and they still charged me $50.25 for it. And they sent the ticket via text and its on ticketmaster so I guess the box office uses ticketmaster now.
Posted: 12/29/24 at 8:50am
The MSG box office is Ticketmaster and it is a nightmare. I couldn't even leave a ticket for someone at will call when they were running late, after Ticketmaster wouldn't let me send the ticket online. God, I hate Ticketmaster.
Posted: 12/29/24 at 9:41am
Scarywarhol said: "The MSG box office is Ticketmaster and it is a nightmare. I couldn't even leave a ticket for someone at will call when they were running late, after Ticketmaster wouldn't let me send the ticket online. God, I hate Ticketmaster."
Interesting. Last time I bought Rangers tickets at the Garden, I was able to use the TM app to find the seats I wanted and the box office was TM, but no fees.
Posted: 12/29/24 at 10:26am
I don't know how it is when you buy online through Ticketmaster since I was able to look at seat availability through the map but when my TDF tickets got sent to me they came through am.ticketmaster.com which seems like it's a management system that MSG uses, and it was confusing because although I logged in with my regular Ticketmaster account I couldn't see the tickets in my Ticketmaster app and had to go to that specific website. Not sure if the theater is a different system than the arena too
Posted: 12/29/24 at 8:05pm
Getting into this show was worse than going through airport security. A third of the audience wasn’t even in their seats when the show began. The theatre itself is a dump. The audience behaved like animals. Whoopi was humiliatingly bad. Glad I went!
Posted: 12/29/24 at 8:46pm
I'd be thrilled if they went through with that proposal to gut the theatre and turn it into more Penn Station space. It's a labyrinth to get in and out, it's not really appropriate for live theatre productions, the ceiling seems jarringly low, and more often than not it sits empty. (It didn't feel like a dump to me - if anything, it seemed overly sterile and characterless.)
This production of ANNIE is solid. It's an underrated score, played and performed well, the staging and design all work, but the book has so many damn hokey moments that I wish could be toned down, from FDR to some of the period-specific references.
Updated On: 12/29/24 at 08:46 PM
Posted: 1/5/25 at 8:35pm
I was at the final performance today. Whoopi's projection needs work, but she's a comedy ace as always. Hazel Vogel shines in the title role.
Posted: 1/5/25 at 10:47pm
I'm happy I only paid $38 to see this. Whoopi was bad and couldn’t project to row F, let alone row V in the back. Thankfully, there were technical difficulties at the beginning of the show, so by the time it started (30 minutes late), everyone was finally in their seats. After intermission, however, it took the audience another 30 minutes to return to their seats. Terrible theater—I would not return to any production in that dump again.
Posted: 1/7/25 at 12:29am
I enjoyed Whoopi in this when I saw it on the 2nd. What I did not enjoy, however, was the two women behind me who almost got in a fistfight, cursing each other out during "It's the Hard-Knock Life," because one of them wouldn't sit down and was shining her flashlight all over the floor. You could tell this was not a typical Broadway-going audience. Despite the announcement, people were filming, taking pictures, and just scrolling through their phones throughout the show.
Posted: 1/7/25 at 9:39am
ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "It's an underrated score."
Since when?
Posted: 1/7/25 at 6:23pm
Whoopi was fun. The show is solid. The theater and my audience were pure trash. Please forgive me. But this run was clearly marketed to the bridge and tunnel crowd that doesn’t get out much. Horrible behavior. Maybe they thought we were at the circus. No respect for each others experience. I will never ever ever see a show there again.
Posted: 1/7/25 at 7:12pm
In my experience, The Theatre @ MSG always feels like seeing a Disney On Ice show. Definitely need to keep expectations as low as possible for audience behavior. I enjoyed this production and Whoopi (also need to shout out Julia Nicole Hunter whose voice was spectacular).. but I basically missed the entirety of Hard Knock Life and patches of NYC due to the audience getting seated late, moving, arguing etc. Also, yes, tons of shameless cellphone use.
Updated On: 1/7/25 at 07:12 PM
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