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Yes! Of course that's true. I've just only ever had trouble with SeatGeek shows. It may actually be Ambassador Theatre Group. Since I think they're behind both Sunsent and Cabaret (and the show I tried to buy last year with similar issues).

Regardless. Bummer. Haha. 

That is an intentionally inflammatory title. But. 

My husband is legally blind and needs to sit in the first few rows or it might as well be an audio recording. In the past we've always bought front row seats way ahead of time and there's been no issue. It used to be that front row seats were "regular" price which we're more than willing to pay. This has changed in the last few years and many shows now price the front row at "premium." 

No intermission is WILD! There's supposed to be two. And it plays beautifully that way.

The book was a little wobbly but goodness gracious did this give me a high for days. If I lived in the area I'd have gone back again and again.

Natalie Venetia Belcon was EXTRAORDINARY.

In Chicago the book wasn't just bad but deadly. The direction, performances, and music were all pretty terrific but it just hung there like a sad, raggedy drug store pinata. You could feel the audience wanting to love it and erupting whenever the music and performers did their thing. I'm not sure adding directors is the move. 

"Also, the punctuation goes inside the quotation marks, a mistake people on here make constantly."

Questions marks don't go inside the quotation marks if the quote is not a question.

The Broadway Gatsby is a nice pop musical that betrays its source material. The ART Gatsby is currently a failed work of art. Hopefully they can make it a success.

 

About five or six years ago I would agree with you... but after the last several years this has become not all that uncommon. It's also fairly standard that understudies aren't rehearsed until after opening... sometimes not even hired until the start of performances. 

Just got an email and bought a ticket. Pretty darn expensive but that is the way of all things these days.

Exactly that. And you said it much more succinctly! 

I realize its already been said but I feel like we can't mention War Paint enough. On paper everything looked extraordinary. From creatives, to director, to casting and concept. What we ended up with was just awfully inert. Wrong choices made at every turn. Changes made from Chicago to Broadway made things worse. 

There's no indication this is being staged anywhere except in the theater. The director even comments that the hobbits will be in the theater when you enter. It appears they've restaged this conventionally.

I LOVED this. I found it deeply moving, very funny, and speaking to exactly what it's like to live in the world right now. 

 

It looks like The Outsiders have already raised their ticket prices? Is that possible? My husband is visually impaired, and we need to sit in the front row (usually not premium). It was 229$ yesterday, and those same seats are now premium priced at 349$. Obviously, they can change whatever they want... and good for them... but that's wild. 

Is it weird tickets aren't on sale for this... or that we haven't received any more information? 

It doesn't LOOK immersive at all. At least from the very standard proscenium seating chart. I suppose they could still have the audience start in an alternative location... but I'm not sure where they would do that? 

Weird there's no mention of Stephin Merritt and David Greenspan's adaptation. Granted, that's an unconventional adaptation but... I feel like it's fairly successful. I love the source material so I guess the more the merrier.