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re: Bullets Over Broadway tonight (Spoilers and VERY long)

Posted by: AlanScott 06:16 am EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: re: Bullets Over Broadway tonight (Spoilers and VERY long) - DistantDrumming 05:32 am EDT 03/18/14

• A mixed bag that I think may be a hit. It's so hard to tell.

• Some good staging and choreography from Stroman, whose work I've never loved.

• A few numbers that work well either because they fit the situation just well enough (sometimes with the help of rewritten lyrics) or because the staging and performance is enough fun. But too many others seem unnecessary and simply too nonspecific, especially in the second act.

• The book has been cut down too much to create room for the numbers. Coherence is lost. Some plot points changed in ways that do not help. Some good new lines, with others that sound like the work of some hack gag-writer.

• Thoroughly professional performances, some of which seem a bit too closely modeled on those in the movie.

• Try to avoid sitting closer than the fourth row.


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Thanks for the thumbnail review

Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 10:16 pm EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: re: Bullets Over Broadway tonight (Spoilers and VERY long) - AlanScott 06:16 am EDT 03/18/14

I'm also in spoiler-avoidance mode until I see it! :)


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Cheers! (nm)

Posted by: DistantDrumming 02:17 pm EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: re: Bullets Over Broadway tonight (Spoilers and VERY long) - AlanScott 06:16 am EDT 03/18/14

nm


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re: Bullets Over Broadway tonight (Spoilers and VERY long)

Posted by: BDBoston 11:34 am EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: re: Bullets Over Broadway tonight (Spoilers and VERY long) - AlanScott 06:16 am EDT 03/18/14

A great assessment. Could you let us know which "letter" row you were in? I know you said fourth, but the old and new Telecharge sites have differing seating charts (one indicates the rows start with AA, then BB, then A, B, C...; the other shows rows starting at BB, then A, B, C...).

Thanks!


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re: Bullets Over Broadway tonight (Spoilers and VERY long)

Posted by: AlanScott 04:46 pm EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: re: Bullets Over Broadway tonight (Spoilers and VERY long) - BDBoston 11:34 am EDT 03/18/14

I was in row C, so I think BB must be the first row.


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Will box office exchange tickets?

Posted by: seeseveryshow 10:48 am EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: re: Bullets Over Broadway tonight (Spoilers and VERY long) - AlanScott 06:16 am EDT 03/18/14

They charged me premium price ($167 each) for front row center orchestra for Sat Nite March 29, and now I've heard from several folks about the high stage platform and undesirability of close up orchestra seats. When I pressed the box office guy about this possibility when I bought them, he shrugged and said the seats should be okay and the show producers set the ticket prices, and that if I didn't like the view when I got there I should seek out the House Manager for re-seating.

Since that may be too late, I am heading back to St. James today to try to switch my tickets for non-craning seats. I hope the box office will be helpful.

Just don't understand how they could extract premium prices for those seats.


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