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[minnie56]

I bought through a broker, Telecharge told me that most tickets have been sold to brokers and there are no regular price tkts available until Jan 2013

 

[minijeanie]

I bought through a broker, Telecharge told me that most tickets have been sold to brokers and there are no regular price tkts available until Jan 2013

OMG I cannot imagine what you paid. YIKES
Hope seats are good and you enjoy!

 

[minijeanie]

Sister Act is closing the end of August. I'm really glad I saw it a couple months ago. It was a very good show!

I agree it was hilarious! I don't think it got enough recognition

 

[minnie56]

A lot, I think I bought the actual seats

 

[minnie56]

I really enjoyed Sister Act too!
Lot of fun..

 

[Katieinwonderland]

DH and I go to NYC a few times a year to visit family/friends and always try to see a few shows. We're going back in August and for the first time, nothing is really jumping out at us We've seen all of the big name shows (except The Book of Mormon, and although I'd love to see that, DH has no interest in it) and after watching the Tony's this year, none of the new shows really appeal to us. Had any of the newer ones (that will still be open!)?

We're also considering seeing The Best Man, purely for the cast. If anyone has seen that, I'd love feedback on that too.

 

[gometros]

DH and I go to NYC a few times a year to visit family/friends and always try to see a few shows. We're going back in August and for the first time, nothing is really jumping out at us We've seen all of the big name shows (except The Book of Mormon, and although I'd love to see that, DH has no interest in it) and after watching the Tony's this year, none of the new shows really appeal to us. Had any of the newer ones (that will still be open!)?

We're also considering seeing The Best Man, purely for the cast. If anyone has seen that, I'd love feedback on that too.

If you like Gershwin and old style musical, I would highly recommend Nice Work If You Can Get It. Wonderful music and it was hilarious.

 

[Imzadi]

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[LBIJim]

If you like Gershwin and old style musical, I would highly recommend Nice Work If You Can Get It. Wonderful music and it was hilarious.

Just saw this last night. Very funny with a great cast. Wasn't expecting all that much based on the mixed reviews, but it was a very pleasant surprise. (Like virtually all musicals, however, it has some ridiculous plot twists that you just have to play along with while enjoying the music and dancing.)

Oh yeah, chorus girls in 1920s sexy flapper costumes.

Jim

 

[Mickdeb]

We saw "Harvey" yesterday, very well done and lots of fun!

Jim Parsons is spot on and the supporting cast (Rich Sommer, Carol Kane, Jessica Hecht,...) is amazing!

see it, if you get a chance - I think it ends Aug 30th.

We are going tomorrow night, good to hear you enjoyed it. What is the theater like, did they totally refurbish Studio 54 into theater seating with a balcony, like any other theater? We love Jim Parsons, can't wait to see him.
Thanks.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

We are going tomorrow night, good to hear you enjoyed it. What is the theater like, did they totally refurbish Studio 54? We love Jim Parsons, can't wait to see him.
Thanks.

We are going in a week or so. Really looking forward to it though, I really love the movie. I am afraid I will disapointed.

 

[JenM]

I just got tickets for Harvey too! I'm seeing it August 2nd. My sister and brother-in-law saw it this week, they loved it. But they did say the seats were very uncomfortable.

I saw Carrie Fisher's show, Wishful Drinking, at Studio 54 a few years ago, and I seem to recall the seats were pretty rough. Show was great, though. I'll never watch Star Wars quite the same way again.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

We are going tomorrow night, good to hear you enjoyed it. What is the theater like, did they totally refurbish Studio 54 into theater seating with a balcony, like any other theater? We love Jim Parsons, can't wait to see him.
Thanks.

Just saw it last night.
It was great. Quite different from the movie(which is one of my favorite movies).
Jim Parsons was very good, much more slapstick than the movie. I wonder now if the original play was more slapstick than the movie. Almost like two completely different takes, but it shows you how good the dialouge truely is.

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

We are going tomorrow night, good to hear you enjoyed it. What is the theater like, did they totally refurbish Studio 54 into theater seating with a balcony, like any other theater? We love Jim Parsons, can't wait to see him.
Thanks.

I am not sure I can answer, I thought the actual Studio 54 was downstairs - and is now a cabaret, 54 Below, but I am probably wrong?! I clearly don't know much about Studio 54!

I can say it is an older (but very nice!), smaller theater - with small seats! If the club was in this space, you would never know it. It is like any other theater with a balcony. etc. I remember the lobby being very narrow. You enter the theater looking at the right wall, not down at the stage as I am used to. The bar is set up in the the back of the orchestra seats, in front of you as you enter.

Enjoy the show, it is great fun!!!

 

[AllisonK]

So I just came back from NYC yesterday and while I was there I saw Rock of Ages, Sister Act and Evita - all of which I had seen before. My friend and I specifically went for Evita, and I was hoping to see something new but my friend said that the shows I wanted to see (Newsies and Bring it On) sounded boring...

Anyway, I wasn't really looking forward to Rock of Ages because it's not one of my favorites - but it was fun. I've always found the show to be very loud and I feel that the dialogue gets muffled sometimes and it's hard to understand the book scenes.

I only agreed to see Sister Act because my friend is leaving the show on Sunday and I thought it would be nice to see her again. The last two times I saw it she was on for the lead role and the show just worked. It's still a funny show and the cast works very hard but Raven-Symoné is playing the lead and I felt like she was trying too hardtop be funny - and it just fell flat most of the time. I still love the show but this wasn't the best performance.

Evita was wonderful. I know the standby for Eva and so we picked the Wednesday evening performance to see her perform. She is wonderful and sings the role beautifully - she hits all the right notes and never sounds like she's straining. My friend thought her voice was "too pretty" for the role - which I can see why people think that. She's a natural soprano who can belt - she played Glinda in Wicked about 5 years ago and I can see how people think she is going against her type - but I just think that it proves she's versatile. Ricky Martin is nothing special - he sings well and looks pretty, but that's about it. The rest of the cast is top-notch though - and technically the shoe is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen on stage.


I do have to say that the audience was the worst I have EVER encountered in the 17 years I've been going to shows - either on Broadway or in Providence or Boston. They treated the show as if it were a Ricky Martin concert. If he wasn't singing they were all talking. It was ridiculous. There are 30 other very talented performers up on that stage working their tales off to bring the shoe to life - give them the same amount of respect you're giving to the star above the title. The couple in back of me were not only talking themselves but letting their kids (about 6 and 9) talk through the whole show. My friend said "That's ok, they're just kids. They can talk." No. It's not ok. If you can't trust your kids to not sit quietly through a performance, maybe it's best to get a babysitter. (And these people were in the "premium" seats that start at about $250 apiece - my friend Andy were in the regular full price seats and the premiums were behind ours.) and then the lady next to me was singing throughout the show. I wanted so badly to tell them all that because they're sitting in the first two rows of the theatre, the entire company on stage can - and do - see them...


I'm sorry. That was a bit of a rant. But this is one of those shows where the "star" doesn't attract the most respectful audiences. I do have to say that the audience at Sister Act was fantastic and gave rest of the cast the same amount of applause that they gave Raven, which I thought was wonderful.

 

[TifffanyD]

My theatre just announced that they've secured Book of Mormon for the next (2013-2014) season!! I am beyond excited! Just had to share with everyone!

 

[TifffanyD]

Hi all!!! More good news to share! I just got my season tickets to the 2012-2013 season in the mail this weekend!! We buy the cloud club seats (in the back) due to price BUT there were extra shows we were able to add on and we could pick any price level we wanted for those. Wellll we bought best price level for Elf and American Idiot and we got Front Row Center for both shows!!!

Both of these shows are on my MUST SEE list so I am super excited. I am addictedddddddd to the movie Elf and the show is on my husband and my anniversary!!

Now I just have to wait and see what kind of Lottery seats I get for Wicked and see about exchanging Sister Act for another date. Hopefully they can do that!

 

[Katieinwonderland]

We have tickets to see Newsies on August 6th (I think!) - I'm not that excited to be honest, but the people we know who have seen it raved about it so going in with an open mind.

We're also going to go to TKTS to see about getting seats for The Best Man for Tuesday 7th - we were going to buy tickets in advance, but now the cast has changed we're not as excited to see that as we were. Still, seeing John Stamos can't be bad!

Now looking forward to schelpping my six-month pregnant butt around NYC in the summer weather!

 

[TifffanyD]

We have tickets to see Newsies on August 6th (I think!) - I'm not that excited to be honest, but the people we know who have seen it raved about it so going in with an open mind.

We're also going to go to TKTS to see about getting seats for The Best Man for Tuesday 7th - we were going to buy tickets in advance, but now the cast has changed we're not as excited to see that as we were. Still, seeing John Stamos can't be bad!

Now looking forward to schelpping my six-month pregnant butt around NYC in the summer weather!

I'll be interested to know what you think of Newsies... some of the shows I wasn't that excited for were the biggest surprise hits. Of course, there were some I was pretty darn sure I wouldn't like... and I was right. We've left 2 shows at intermission (Dreamgirls and Peter Pan... the latter wasn't terrible but it was very juvenile and we were both under the weather so it wasn't worth staying to us).

 

[gometros]

I'll be interested to know what you think of Newsies... some of the shows I wasn't that excited for were the biggest surprise hits. Of course, there were some I was pretty darn sure I wouldn't like... and I was right. We've left 2 shows at intermission (Dreamgirls and Peter Pan... the latter wasn't terrible but it was very juvenile and we were both under the weather so it wasn't worth staying to us).

We saw Newsies on June 4th and absolutely LOVED it. There was a slight change from the movie, mostly a change to Bill Paxton's character, to give Jack a love interest, but that didn't ruin the underlying story at all. The dance numbers were fantastic and as a SYTYCD fan, it was great to see some SYTYCD alumni. It was a very energetic movie and the familiar songs will have you humming as you leave the theater.