| isn't this likely more to do with Covid than reviews? | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 11:41 pm EST 01/04/22 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 11:36 pm EST 01/04/22 | |
| In reply to: “Flying Over Sunset” Closing Jan 16th - Singapore/Fling 07:01 pm EST 01/04/22 | |
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| How often, if ever, does Lincoln Center end a scheduled run several weeks early? Am I completely ignorant in thinking that non-profits with this kind of money almost always have their shows play the originally scheduled run as part of the season program? I'd also like to suggest that as bizarre, and perhaps unsatisfying, as so many have found this show... I think if there were no pandemic making people think twice about sitting in a theater, this show might not have struggled to fills seats or find more of its niche audience. (for what it's worth, the matinee I saw the week of opening was full) I would say I liked the show a lot and am very glad I saw it, I've been recommending it to anyone I speak to about nyc theater. Beyond the impressive creatives and cast, it's a new musical at LCT (with 2 of the 3 writers being Pulitzer Prize winners, and the 3rd doing Pulitzer worthy work in his most known show). I would think in a normal season there would be more anticipation and less indifference, even if people don't like it. What an amazingly bittersweet season for Tom Kitt... with TWO new musicals with his music, at probably the two most revered non-profit theaters in NYC, one off broadway and one on, working with amazing collaborators and cast. To have even one like either of these in any season, let alone in your career, would be amazing. He has both, at once, in the most irregular season to ever exist (since the last major pandemic, I assume)... and both are panned and/or met with indifference and head-scratching by most. I didn't get to see The Visitor and nothing I heard from friends or read made me think I needed to see it, neither did the two songs I saw performances of online... but had they mounted it 5-10 years ago it might have met a more receptive audience/critic base, in 2021 it didn't stand much of a chance given the subject/perspective (though again, I don't hear good things about the material, "problematic" problems aside, though I remember the original film was good and acclaimed at the time). But I think he did some wonderful work in Flying Over Sunset. At least that got a cast recording so the show might have another life... it doesn't seem like The Visitor got so lucky. |
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