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| re: Encores: Isn't the Final Performance Always the Best? What Is the Reason for Attending Earlier Ones? & My Experience at The Tap Dance KId | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 12:31 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 12:30 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Encores: Isn't the Final Performance Always the Best? What Is the Reason for Attending Earlier Ones? & My Experience at The Tap Dance KId - NoPeopleLike 12:18 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
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| Encores would seem to be the exception to the rule because there are so few performances. So many folks see disappointing performances and then complain about it on ATC. I've never seen a bad Encores show when I attended a final performance. The Tap Dance Kid is the most recent example. |
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| re: Encores: Isn't the Final Performance Always the Best? What Is the Reason for Attending Earlier Ones? & My Experience at The Tap Dance KId | |
| Posted by: NoPeopleLike 01:29 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Encores: Isn't the Final Performance Always the Best? What Is the Reason for Attending Earlier Ones? & My Experience at The Tap Dance KId - BroadwayTonyJ 12:30 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
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| If you've never see a bad Encores show (including Tap Dance Kid), my guess is you're not very picky. | |
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| re: Encores: Isn't the Final Performance Always the Best? What Is the Reason for Attending Earlier Ones? & My Experience at The Tap Dance KId | |
| Posted by: FinalPerformance 08:42 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Encores: Isn't the Final Performance Always the Best? What Is the Reason for Attending Earlier Ones? & My Experience at The Tap Dance KId - NoPeopleLike 01:29 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
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| They're not picky their asleep. | |
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| re: Encores: Isn't the Final Performance Always the Best? What Is the Reason for Attending Earlier Ones? & My Experience at The Tap Dance KId | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 08:56 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Encores: Isn't the Final Performance Always the Best? What Is the Reason for Attending Earlier Ones? & My Experience at The Tap Dance KId - FinalPerformance 08:42 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
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| I've never dozed at any Encores performance. Generally I have strong, black coffee beforehand. Why be so nasty? There was nothing judgmental in my post and certainly nothing offensive. | |
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| re: Encores: Isn't the Final Performance Always the Best? What Is the Reason for Attending Earlier Ones? & My Experience at The Tap Dance KId | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 08:38 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Encores: Isn't the Final Performance Always the Best? What Is the Reason for Attending Earlier Ones? & My Experience at The Tap Dance KId - NoPeopleLike 01:29 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
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| That's mean. Have I ever criticized you for any reason? I was just looking for some honest answers to a couple of simple questions. I've seen 21 Encores productions. I just reviewed them all. Many were excellent. Others very good. The rest I found to be enjoyable. I was disappointed that Olivia Dukakis in 70, Girls, 70 read directly from a script and rarely looked up, but the rest of the cast, particularly Anita Gillette, was so good that I still liked the performance. The shows I decided to buy tickets to were mostly ones I had never seen on a stage like House of Flowers, Fanny, Face the Music, Applause, Juno, Music in the Air, Lost in the Stars, Where's Charley?, Zorba!, Pipe Dream, High Button Shoes, and one or two others. Sometimes I happened to be in New York and decided re-visit a show that I was particularly fond of (Follies, 1776, The Golden Apple, Of Thee I Sing, 70, Girls, 70, Mack & Mabel). In all honesty, I have not seen a bad Encores show. I typically go to the theatre to have a good time, not to be a critic. |
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| re: Encores: Isn't the Final Performance Always the Best? What Is the Reason for Attending Earlier Ones? & My Experience at The Tap Dance KId | |
| Posted by: PlazaBoy 08:51 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Encores: Isn't the Final Performance Always the Best? What Is the Reason for Attending Earlier Ones? & My Experience at The Tap Dance KId - BroadwayTonyJ 08:38 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
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| You are taking me down memory lane. I've enjoyed most of my Encore experiences as well. The night I saw Applause, Christine Ebersole had a terrible cold. It was sad to see her struggle. You knew she would have been great, but just couldn't muster it that evening. |
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| re: Encores: Isn't the Final Performance Always the Best? What Is the Reason for Attending Earlier Ones? & My Experience at The Tap Dance KId | |
| Last Edit: writerkev 01:04 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
| Posted by: writerkev 01:03 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Encores: Isn't the Final Performance Always the Best? What Is the Reason for Attending Earlier Ones? & My Experience at The Tap Dance KId - BroadwayTonyJ 12:30 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
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| With all respect, what you’re saying makes very little sense. Are you suggesting the first several performances play to empty houses? That absolutely everyone tries to see the same show? How would that work? As for your idea that people don’t like the shows because they see early performances, you have no way of knowing that. (And it’s highly unlikely. Things don’t truly improve that much in a matter of a few performances to change from an F to an A.) The only way you could make your case about “Tap Dance Kid” with any confidence is if you’d seen both the first and the last shows and could speak to the difference in quality. As it is, you may have simply liked the show much better than most people did. That’s fine, but you can’t necessarily attribute it to the improvement made over a few extra shows. You’re simply speculating, and it just doesn’t seem likely. |
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| re: Encores: Isn't the Final Performance Always the Best? What Is the Reason for Attending Earlier Ones? & My Experience at The Tap Dance KId | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 08:03 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Encores: Isn't the Final Performance Always the Best? What Is the Reason for Attending Earlier Ones? & My Experience at The Tap Dance KId - writerkev 01:03 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
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| Huh? I stated what I have been doing for the past several years. Then I just asked a couple of questions. I was curious about something. I didn't criticize anyone. I liked the final performance of a show. Did you actually read my post? | |
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| re: Encores: Isn't the Final Performance Always the Best? What Is the Reason for Attending Earlier Ones? & My Experience at The Tap Dance KId | |
| Last Edit: writerkev 08:25 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
| Posted by: writerkev 08:23 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Encores: Isn't the Final Performance Always the Best? What Is the Reason for Attending Earlier Ones? & My Experience at The Tap Dance KId - BroadwayTonyJ 08:03 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
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| I did, yes. You suggest that you liked “The Tap Dance Kid,” so it must be because you saw the final performance instead of earlier performances which people have criticized. That’s what I don’t think makes sense. (And you basically ask why everyone doesn’t see the final performance, the weirdness of which is pretty obvious.) | |
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| re: Encores: Isn't the Final Performance Always the Best? What Is the Reason for Attending Earlier Ones? & My Experience at The Tap Dance KId | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 08:51 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Encores: Isn't the Final Performance Always the Best? What Is the Reason for Attending Earlier Ones? & My Experience at The Tap Dance KId - writerkev 08:23 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
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| The title of my post asked two simple questions. I was looking for honest answers. That's all. I asked a rhetorical question in my original post, i.e., Why would anyone buy a ticket to an earlier showing when the performance may well be disappointing?. You are reading things into my very straightforward questions that are not there. Please don't re-interpret. I have no hidden agenda. There is nothing offensive in my post. |
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| re: Encores: Isn't the Final Performance Always the Best? What Is the Reason for Attending Earlier Ones? & My Experience at The Tap Dance KId | |
| Posted by: Thom915 11:39 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Encores: Isn't the Final Performance Always the Best? What Is the Reason for Attending Earlier Ones? & My Experience at The Tap Dance KId - BroadwayTonyJ 08:51 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
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| Having been in or worked on several shows with very limited runs, I can say final show is not necessarily the best. There are too many variables to have any guarantee of which show will be best. You are probably correct in the likelihood that the first or second performances will improve in subsequent shows but after that it's anybody's guess. And the degree of improvement varies from production to production depending on any number of variables. You also say you didn't insult anybody and I don't believe you meant to but in truth you did namely those people who had reservations about Tap Dance Kid (and now The Life) without seeing the performance you deigned to be the best. For the record, I saw the Sunday matinee of Tap Dance Kid. That's pretty close to your hypothetical best performance but for3/4 of the show I was bored out of my mind. The last 20 minutes were terrific as were a couple earlier numbers and the mother/daughter scene was very nice and rang true. I had a friend who went Thursday evening and the thought everything was great, proving only that different people have different tastes and arguably standards. I am glad you enjoyed it. Many of the people around me did also. Others grumbled like myself. |
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