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Post by princeton on Jan 10, 2024 16:51:25 GMT
On Broadway, they cancelled performances when SJP got Covid, they weirdly didn't cancel when Matthew Broderick tested positive. Not quite the full story. Matthew Broderick missed three performances because of Covid, then SJP also tested positive with so they cancelled a week of performances, whilst they were both out He then returned to the show and did two performances before she returned. So each did some shows opposite a standby (who were Tony award-winner Michael McGrath and Tony nominee Erin Dilly). |
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Post by bigredapple on Jan 10, 2024 17:03:12 GMT
Interesting that they’re running their own lottery, away from TodayTix. Sign of what’s to come from ATG?
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Post by raiseitup on Jan 15, 2024 13:38:31 GMT
I actually won the first lottery! Can't believe it
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Post by matildaswinton on Jan 15, 2024 13:50:20 GMT
I actually won the first lottery! Can't believe it Same here! Didn’t realize the first row is split between AA and BB… Interested to see how this is. |
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Post by zahidf on Jan 15, 2024 14:03:51 GMT
ah i didnt win:-(
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Post by A.Ham on Jan 15, 2024 14:11:07 GMT
Congrats to raiseitup and matildaswinton! Did you get to click through and select your seat/s via a link in the email?
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Post by matildaswinton on Jan 15, 2024 15:28:31 GMT
Congrats to raiseitup and matildaswinton! Did you get to click through and select your seat/s via a link in the email? Yes! |
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Post by gmoneyoutlaw on Jan 16, 2024 0:10:16 GMT
I have a crap seat on Thursday night. Glad to finally see it as it was impossible in NY. Didnt win lottery and cant afford $200 tickets
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Post by dannimaria on Jan 16, 2024 16:34:50 GMT
Anyone get an email regarding sightline issues with certain seats for 2-3 minutes during the second act? I assume I got it as it affects my seats, but it's hard to know whether to change tickets or not based on such little information.
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Post by andrew on Jan 16, 2024 16:56:37 GMT
Anyone get an email regarding sightline issues with certain seats for 2-3 minutes during the second act? I assume I got it as it affects my seats, but it's hard to know whether to change tickets or not based on such little information. Are they offering you a switch? I wonder what it could be. |
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Post by dannimaria on Jan 16, 2024 18:41:56 GMT
Anyone get an email regarding sightline issues with certain seats for 2-3 minutes during the second act? I assume I got it as it affects my seats, but it's hard to know whether to change tickets or not based on such little information. Are they offering you a switch? I wonder what it could be. Yes, you have to fill in the alternate dates form on the atg website or I guess you could ring them for a seat swap. I tweeted/Xd them and they said the new restrictions have now been added to the website, but apart from the normal ATG view picture I can't seem to see anything. I'm L and M in the stalls on different dates, maybe it's just the long overhang of the circle at the Savoy they're talking about... |
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Post by A.Ham on Jan 17, 2024 17:37:40 GMT
First performance in a couple of hours! Anyone there tonight?
I’ve just bought a front row seat for next week so I’m excited to be in the presence of SJP! And genuinely interested in the play too, I should hasten to add - the three act / same actors playing three sets of characters intrigues me and the plot of each act sounds good. Hoping it’s better / funnier than some have suggested it was on Broadway.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jan 17, 2024 22:29:50 GMT
I had a friend in watching tonight and I got an interval message saying
“Absolutely dreadful. I’m leaving”
I’m going tomorrow .. I have very low expectations.
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Post by Rory on Jan 17, 2024 23:09:02 GMT
I had a friend in watching tonight and I got an interval message saying “Absolutely dreadful. I’m leaving” I’m going tomorrow .. I have very low expectations. I could be wrong but I thought you saw it in New York? |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jan 17, 2024 23:11:25 GMT
I had a friend in watching tonight and I got an interval message saying “Absolutely dreadful. I’m leaving” I’m going tomorrow .. I have very low expectations. I could be wrong but I thought you saw it in New York? No! |
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Post by Rory on Jan 17, 2024 23:12:31 GMT
I could be wrong but I thought you saw it in New York? No! I'm now imagining stuff! Sorry lol, just thought you had from a previous post! |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jan 17, 2024 23:33:27 GMT
I'm now imagining stuff! Sorry lol, just thought you had from a previous post! Unless I did and I was drunk? This is possible. |
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Post by A.Ham on Jan 18, 2024 8:12:47 GMT
I had a friend in watching tonight and I got an interval message saying “Absolutely dreadful. I’m leaving” I’m going tomorrow .. I have very low expectations. Eeeek!! |
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Post by Steve on Jan 18, 2024 23:40:23 GMT
I had a friend in watching tonight and I got an interval message saying “Absolutely dreadful. I’m leaving” I’m going tomorrow .. I have very low expectations. In my opinion, whatever you do, do NOT make this decision, to leave at the interval. . . Instead, if you are the kind of person who leaves at the interval, having little patience for average material, have dinner from 7pm - 8pm, and show up at 8:30pm for the second half, which plays from 8:45pm to 10pm. The difference between before and after the interval is chalk and cheese, where the first hour is whiny chalk screeching across a wizened blackboard, and the second half is a delicious comic cheese platter to be savoured. I really enjoyed myself tonight, feeling that the first half was decidedly average, with skilful performances lifting intrinsically poor material, but found the second half was very funny, with skilful performances lifting good material towards excellence. Some spoilers follow. . . The three plays presented are essentially three two-handers, one before the interval, and two after. The connection between the plays is that they are all set in the same suite at the Plaza Hotel in the late sixties, and although the plays do not feature the same characters, they all explore the role of communication in middle-aged relationships. The first play is about a failure of such communication, the second about successful communication, and the third about something in between, as well as about how communication styles might be passed from one generation to the next. Throughout the evening, Matthew Broderick, who I found to be a sensitive and emotive actor in "The Starry Messenger," at Wyndham's Theatre, just gets funnier and funnier. In the first play, Broderick gets more comic mileage than Walter Matthau got out of the same material, in the film (which I saw a couple of decades ago, but in which I recall Matthau being unpleasantly and off-puttingly abrasive), by channeling a kind of Wallace Shawn drony drollness, a much more pliant and comic doormat approach of dealing with the wife he can't agree with about anything. Sarah Jessica Parker spends the duration of this first play desperately and tragically trying to penetrate the drone, but as an audience member, I found the most memorable moment of the play was when Parker threw a paper plane across the room for it to land precisely on Broderick's lap. Cue cheers. Despite a couple of laughs, and an effective moment of melancholy, I'd rate the first play 2 and a half stars, raised from a 2 star text by the performances. After the interval, the second play is an insightful comedy zinger, with both Sarah Jessica Parker and Broderick fizzing comically with desire for each other, after seventeen years of not seeing each other, though they now speak completely different love languages, with Parker desirous only of hearing about her former beau's Hollywood star connections, as he is now a big producer, and he desirous solely for her straightforward simplicity. The way these two love languages play off each other is utterly delightful, and both actors elevate good material into the stratosphere, with Broderick's Wallace Shawn comic whininess now informed by a youthful Woody Allen (before he got a bad rep lol) comic lustiness. For me, this is the best play of the evening, as the play is the match of the performances, and I'd give it 4 and a half stars. The third play is the broadest comedy of all, about a couple who can't talk their daughter out of a bathroom on her wedding day. Now Broderick fires on more comedy cylinders than ever before, dressed in humorously grotesque grey aging makeup, getting more and more frenetic, a Wallace Shawn crossed with a young Woody Allen crossed with a Basil Fawlty crossed with the aging waiter who stumbled around in "Man with Two Guvnors," a comedy character par excellence. Unfortunately, SJP's straight woman character, albeit well done, gets a bit sidelined by Broderick's bravura comedy performance, so overall the play is not as interesting in what it has to say as the second play, but moment for moment it is the funniest, and I give it 4 stars. Play 1: 2 stars; Play 2: 4 and a half stars; Play 3: 4 stars. Overall, 3 and a half stars, but taken by itself, AFTER the interval rates a dynamic and winning 4 and a bit stars for me! So, in my opinion, don't miss the second half.  |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jan 19, 2024 0:52:22 GMT
Well that was indeed absolutely dreadful.
What on earth possessed them to revive this clunky, unfunny and faintly offensive play. Not a laugh to be had throughout. I didn’t think Act 2 improved much at all personally.
Sarah Jessica Parker does admirably with the woeful material, closely followed by her husband, but their efforts are all for nothing.
What a wasted opportunity to have her gracing our stages in this absolute turd of a piece.
I will be fascinated to see what reviewers make of it.
For anyone who’s paid £300 a ticket- my thoughts go out to you. Get drunk beforehand. Or during.
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Post by theatrematty1 on Jan 19, 2024 10:00:32 GMT
Well that was indeed absolutely dreadful. What on earth possessed them to revive this clunky, unfunny and faintly offensive play. Not a laugh to be had throughout. I didn’t think Act 2 improved much at all personally. Sarah Jessica Parker does admirably with the woeful material, closely followed by her husband, but their efforts are all for nothing. What a wasted opportunity to have her gracing our stages in this absolute turd of a piece. I will be fascinated to see what reviewers make of it. For anyone who’s paid £300 a ticket- my thoughts go out to you. Get drunk beforehand. Or during. Eek! Your review doesn’t sound great, where did you sit? Considering going but not sure on where to book? And if the price is worth it? |
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Post by dip on Jan 19, 2024 11:31:10 GMT
My partner went last night and thought it was brilliant, while her play-adverse sister also really enjoyed it
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Post by ladidah on Jan 19, 2024 13:43:58 GMT
Such mixed reviews!
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jan 19, 2024 20:51:33 GMT
My partner went last night and thought it was brilliant, while her play-adverse sister also really enjoyed it That’s worrying |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jan 19, 2024 20:52:26 GMT
Well that was indeed absolutely dreadful. What on earth possessed them to revive this clunky, unfunny and faintly offensive play. Not a laugh to be had throughout. I didn’t think Act 2 improved much at all personally. Sarah Jessica Parker does admirably with the woeful material, closely followed by her husband, but their efforts are all for nothing. What a wasted opportunity to have her gracing our stages in this absolute turd of a piece. I will be fascinated to see what reviewers make of it. For anyone who’s paid £300 a ticket- my thoughts go out to you. Get drunk beforehand. Or during. Eek! Your review doesn’t sound great, where did you sit? Considering going but not sure on where to book? And if the price is worth it? I wouldn’t go and see it if I knew how bad it was. We sat centre dress circle at the front |
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