visiting NYC from 03/07-03/13: what should I see?

[poebias]

Posted: 2/22/16 at 10:05pm

Hello all! 
I'm super stoked to be returning to NYC in a few weeks, and thought to reach out and ask for some assistance from you experts in helping me whittle down my list of shows. I'll have 5 solid days that don't include an airport, and that presents an opportunity to catch 7 shows if I really want to cram them all in. The fact that if I really wanted to see 8, I could theoretically catch something on the Monday night... but I'm not sure I'll have the energy. So! 7 or less it is. Here's my laundry-list of possibilities. I already have tickets to see "The King and I" on the 11th - so that's all well and good. 

Also, I'd LOVE some input on the best way to do this at the most inexpensive way possible. If you have any secrets to finding discounted tickets, lay them on me. I'm already a member of TDF, and regularly check out Playbill, TodayTix, Theater Mania, and Broadway for Broke People.... so I'm hoping for the really hard to find deals, if even a thing. Ha! I was happy to get the "King and I" ticket using the Lincoln Center 21-35 yr/old ticket option.

Off Broadway: Buried Child. // Hungry. 

On Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof. // The Humans. // The Color Purple. // The Crucible. // She Loves Me. // Noises Off... // Fun Home

I may have secured a comp ticket to see Eclipsed and Hamilton per industry connections. While those aren't certain quite yet, I'm still focusing on these titles for now. 

In advance: thank you thank you thank you! 

If it's any help, shows I've thoroughly enjoyed on previous trips have been Casa Valentina, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, Einstein on the Beach, Doubt, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2005 revival), Avenue Q, and while rusty Chicago was a blast. I was fond of but not entirely in love with Annapurna and The Phantom of the Opera. Could take or leave the Evita revival. Outwardly hated the play Modern Terrorism. 

Hooray! xo

 

[Phantom4ever]

Posted: 2/22/16 at 10:31pm

I am going a couple weeks after you and I am seeing Chicago, She Loves Me, Hamilton, Phantom of the Opera, and Dear Evan Hansen.   

Why not see a Monday night show?  And while you're at it, a Thursday matinee of Phantom- the only Thursday matinee on Broadway. 

Seeing shows a second time can really do wonders.  I just caught the tour of Cabaret over the weekend and when I saw it on Broadway two years ok it was just ok.  This weekend ......wow it really spoke to me.  Newsies was just ok the first time.  The second time?  Fell head over heels for it.  Hated Chicago for 10 years after I saw it once, then finally gave it a second chance and now  I'm obsessed with it.   

So see the hot new stuff but if you don't have a museum or Circle Line cruise planned, go check out Phantom on Thursday afternoon.  Or better yet, do the cruises and museums before your matinees 

Updated On: 2/22/16 at 10:31 PM