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[tapfrog]

Posted: 4/4/10 at 8:51am

Can someone please tell me the run time of the show? Thanks

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 4/4/10 at 9:00am

It ended at about 10:45 on Friday.

[singtopher]

Posted: 4/4/10 at 9:24am

Which means they trimmed it down by 10 min since the first preview.

[once a month]

Posted: 4/4/10 at 9:28am

Yesterdays matinee let out at 4:45. Let me add, that I loved it.

[tapfrog]

Posted: 4/4/10 at 10:03am

Thanks, all - I'm coming from Boston for the matinee on Saturday.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/4/10 at 10:17am

I hope you enjoy it, tapfrog! It's such a fun show! :)

[adamgreer]

Posted: 4/4/10 at 11:04am

Glad they've tightened it up! It definitely felt a bit too long and labored at the first preview.

[fflagg]

Posted: 4/4/10 at 5:29pm

2 hrs., 50 mins. and it feels every minute of it

[MiracleElixir]

Posted: 4/5/10 at 2:33am

I hope you enjoy it! I didn't at all, but lots of folks at my performance did. It ended at 10:45, but I was in rear mezz and didn't get out of the theater till 10:55-11:00.

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 4/5/10 at 8:20am

Even if cuts have been made I think they're still more to be done, specifically to the first act which felt incredibly long in addition to all over the place.

[bjh2114]

Posted: 4/5/10 at 6:20pm

Run time: Long and slow. Period.

[Elphaba3]

Posted: 4/5/10 at 6:41pm

I think they should cut "A House Is Not a Home." It was boring and unncessary. "I Say a Little Prayer" is also unnecessary to the plot, but I hope they keep it because I thought it was one of the highlights of the show.

[MiracleElixir]

Posted: 4/6/10 at 8:30am

"Say A Little Prayer" is a dreadful part of the show, but they'll never cut it because it's one of the only songs in the show people actually know.

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 4/6/10 at 12:10pm

oh geez now this has become one of those threads.

A friend saw it last night, got out at 10:40 - so another five minutes down.

Hope this means they're tightening that first act! I wanna see it again...grrr...

and everyone needs to just stop about the new songs. They're staying. and honestly, they're not abysmal, and work to at least some degree, so chill.