| re: If you saw Yiddish Fiddler... | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 12:30 pm EST 12/29/18 | |
| In reply to: re: If you saw Yiddish Fiddler... - NewtonUK 10:32 am EST 12/28/18 | |
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| "I also wonder about the intimacy of this production in the vast confines of Stage 42. And I mean VAST." I'm not sure why some people have this idea that Stage 42 is "vast." Neither the stage nor the auditorium is unusually large. There are just under 500 seats, as has been often reported. It is true that there's no mezzanine and no overhang, just one rising level of stadium seating. So yes, people seated in the very back rows might feel SOMEWHAT distant from the stage. But the same is true for lots of other theaters, including the theater where the Yiddish FIDDLER is currently playing, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Although that theater does have fewer seats, I can't imagine anyone who sees the show from the last row of Stage 42 will feel significantly more removed from the action that someone who saw it from the last row in the theater at the museum. And, to make another comparison, the back rows of Stage 42 can't feel any more remote from the stage than the back rows at Second Stage's Off-Broadway space on 43rd St. Stage 42 has has some major issues, all of which have been discussed previously on this board, but I don't think. P.S.: Although I think I know what you mean about intimacy, the Yiddish FIDDLER has a cast of 29, so it is not a small show in that respect, and I think it should fill the Stage 42 stage very nicely. |
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