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re: Fat Ham - has anyone seen Off and on Broadway?
Posted by: oddone 11:00 am EDT 04/12/23
In reply to: Fat Ham - has anyone seen Off and on Broadway? - Ann 09:32 am EDT 04/12/23

Agree with previous poster. More crucially, it feels broader now. The performances are ‘bigger,’ and not (in my mind) a good way. It’s like they’re playing to the back row, hamming it up (if you will) so that we all get it. The audience seemed to eat it up but I found it much less compelling.

Otherwise it’s more or less the same staging. Some of the ghost effects are tweaked, and perhaps a tad more impressive here. But I didn’t notice any major differences.
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re: Fat Ham - has anyone seen Off and on Broadway?
Posted by: Singapore/Fling 11:59 am EDT 04/12/23
In reply to: re: Fat Ham - has anyone seen Off and on Broadway? - oddone 11:00 am EDT 04/12/23

I saw the third preview on Broadway, and my main takeaway was that it needed to become broader, especially during the beginning, to fill that space. Once Benja Kay Thomas came on stage the show began to feel like it was scaled to Broadway, and the new version of Juicy’s karaoke truly filled the space in all the Rufus ways. So I’m glad to hear that they kept working on scaling up.

That said, I loved it on Broadway, and I thought they did a great job of maintaining the connection to the audience while making it a proscenium event. I’m tempted to go back and catch it again.
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