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| Is it safe to assume that cheaper tickets are being moved down to better seats? | |
| Posted by: pecansforall 03:15 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
| In reply to: Some Like It Hot --- not like the pre-Pandemic times - stevemr 01:34 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
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| I'm thinking of buying the cheapest ticket in the balcony. | |
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| re: Is it safe to assume that cheaper tickets are being moved down to better seats? | |
| Posted by: Michaels 03:39 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
| In reply to: Is it safe to assume that cheaper tickets are being moved down to better seats? - pecansforall 03:15 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
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| Not at all likely. The theater manager is the worst on Broadway, just an awful person and he likes to assert his authority. I think you'd have a good chance of getting rush ticket on the day...if you want to be certain, get there at 10. I know people were getting them virtually up to curtain at previews; I don't know if this is happening after opening. It's a wonderful show and you will have a great time as long as you avoid the theater manager. | |
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| Stop forcing woke down our throats | |
| Posted by: FinalPerformance 03:45 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Is it safe to assume that cheaper tickets are being moved down to better seats? - Michaels 03:39 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
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| It's a decent show but the romantic leads are that big a draw either. Sugar needed more to her than power Ballard's. | |
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| “Waaah! Stop subjecting me to shows that are both diverse *and* inclusive!” (nm) | |
| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 08:41 am EST 12/17/22 | |
| In reply to: Stop forcing woke down our throats - FinalPerformance 03:45 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
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| Alexis Solski’s review | |
| Last Edit: singleticket 11:58 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
| Posted by: singleticket 11:52 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
| In reply to: Stop forcing woke down our throats - FinalPerformance 03:45 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
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| Not so much a critique of “woke” on Broadway as a critique of the banalization of woke via a Broadway musical… the weary pro forma aspect of it. |
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| Link | Some Like It Hot review – Broadway adaptation is lukewarm |
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| re: Alexis Solski’s review | |
| Posted by: Ncassidine 10:17 am EST 12/17/22 | |
| In reply to: Alexis Solski’s review - singleticket 11:52 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
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| "attempt to bend the source material into shapes it doesn’t want to go. A lot of the songs sound like pastiches of other, better songs, like Let’s Be Bad, borrowed from Wittman and Shaiman’s Smash soundtrack and indebted to All That Jazz, or Ride Out the Storm, which wants to be Stormy Weather and isn’t. Some songs, like a couple of Hicks’s numbers, A Darker Shade of Blue and At the Old Majestic Nickel Matinee, shouldn’t be here at all." I actually agree with this. I enjoyed the show a lot, but many of the songs sounded like other shows or shouldn't be there at all. |
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| “… a beribboned road to truth” | |
| Last Edit: singleticket 12:15 am EST 12/17/22 | |
| Posted by: singleticket 12:14 am EST 12/17/22 | |
| In reply to: Alexis Solski’s review - singleticket 11:52 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
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| From Solski’s review: Wokeness merely refers to an awareness of systemic bias and injustice, past and present, which any revival or new adaptation should have. Here Lopez and Ruffin have written Jerry/Daphne, Sugar and the bandleader Sweet Sue as shrewd expansions of the original. But in wanting to treat the comedy of men in dresses with greater care and sensitivity – a terrific goal in and of itself – changes the meaning of Some Like It Hot itself. The original, in its sophistication and ambivalence, is a celebration of disguise, of the quick wits, silver tongues and wild cheek that let Joe and Jerry juggle their multiple fictions. Yet in this version (as in López’s earlier play The Legend of Georgia McBride), drag becomes a means to self-acceptance, a beribboned road to truth. It’s scrupulousness that’s feted here, not the scam. Here’s the millionaire’s response to Daphne this time: “You’re perfect.” |
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| re: Stop forcing woke down our throats | |
| Posted by: Gregv212 05:01 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
| In reply to: Stop forcing woke down our throats - FinalPerformance 03:45 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
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| What? | |
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| Woke means sensitive to social justice. Are you against that? | |
| Last Edit: ryhog 05:00 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
| Posted by: ryhog 04:56 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
| In reply to: Stop forcing woke down our throats - FinalPerformance 03:45 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
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| It's also a word that has been co-opted by the radical right republican crew. Also it wouldn't be a bad idea to proof what you post as it is hard to decipher the mess you've made of both sentences of your message. |
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| re: Woke means sensitive to social justice. Are you against that? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 05:02 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
| In reply to: Woke means sensitive to social justice. Are you against that? - ryhog 04:56 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
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| Yes, but we don't like the idea of power Ballards? (OK, so it was Ballard's.) If that was spell-check, it's some pretty Broadway-oriented spell-check. |
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| re: Woke means sensitive to social justice. Are you against that? | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 05:06 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Woke means sensitive to social justice. Are you against that? - AlanScott 05:02 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
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| Kaye Ballard was pretty powerful as Rosalie in CARNIVAL! | |
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| re: Woke means sensitive to social justice. Are you against that? | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 05:38 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Woke means sensitive to social justice. Are you against that? - NewtonUK 05:06 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
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| And, at this time of the year, don’t forget Lucille Ballard! | |
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| re: Woke means sensitive to social justice. Are you against that? | |
| Posted by: AnObserver 10:42 am EST 12/17/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Woke means sensitive to social justice. Are you against that? - KingSpeed 05:38 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
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| Or the cinematographer Lucien Ballard. | |
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| re: Stop forcing woke down our throats | |
| Posted by: Commopics 03:53 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
| In reply to: Stop forcing woke down our throats - FinalPerformance 03:45 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
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| How much wokeness do you think is in the show? It seems a few lines in the first act dealing with racism and then the biggest change, Jerry embracing their own Daphne in one number. The latter, to me, doesn't move the material in an unnatural direction from its premises. I assume it does for you. | |
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| re: Stop forcing woke down our throats | |
| Posted by: AnObserver 11:01 am EST 12/17/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Stop forcing woke down our throats - Commopics 03:53 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
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| Search for the Vulture (nymag.com) review. It addresses the "woke" issue from a different and intelligent viewpoint than Solski's. It says something like: "a work that's so defensive about its own existence." Not saying Solski isn't intelligent. |
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| What are you talking about? | |
| Posted by: Ann 03:49 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
| In reply to: Stop forcing woke down our throats - FinalPerformance 03:45 pm EST 12/16/22 | |
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| I think the adjustments to the plot are wonderful, and I applaud efforts made to be more inclusive. Especially when the person performing the role is non-binary. How does this ruin your day? And nothing is being forced. | |
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