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Post by Merge on Feb 16, 2016 23:36:35 GMT
We bought resale tickets through Ticketmaster for the end of July. Maybe a month ago. I'm glad we got them now because they're certainly not getting any cheaper.
As for not listening to the soundtrack - why? I love it. And I agree that in a show with so many words, going in somewhat prepared will let me relax more. It's a lot to take in!
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Post by tracym1 on Feb 17, 2016 0:01:54 GMT
AH I forgot about School of Rock.. it is supposed to be fantastic.... Sutton Foster is amazing. I'm going to see Sutton Foster on Friday here in Baltimore.
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Post by epeanymous on Feb 17, 2016 0:55:32 GMT
I didn't ask dh what he paid for our (May) tickets and don't plan to.
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Post by ktdoesntscrap on Feb 17, 2016 1:12:27 GMT
AH I forgot about School of Rock.. it is supposed to be fantastic.... Sutton Foster is amazing. I've read good things about it and my daughter likes the movie, so this one should be a hit for everybody. I love Sutton Foster too, although she isn't in this one. Wish she was. I would watch her in anything. Oh its Sierra Bogges isn't it? I always mix them up.
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Post by ktdoesntscrap on Feb 17, 2016 1:13:21 GMT
AH I forgot about School of Rock.. it is supposed to be fantastic.... Sutton Foster is amazing. I'm going to see Sutton Foster on Friday here in Baltimore. Oh Lucky you!!!! We saw Kristin Chenoweth in concert a few weeks ago she was amazing. I am sure Sutton Foster will be too.
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Post by ktdoesntscrap on Feb 17, 2016 1:22:49 GMT
DS lives in NYC and can get tix to (I'm pretty sure) any show (lots of friends/roommate on Broadway) but not to Hamilton :/ When I was out last spring we tried to see it at the Public. No luck. Then DS won the lottery in September and saw it on Broadway, so when I was out later in the fall we tried, twice, with a bunch of his friends putting their names in for us. No luck. So, I went home to Seattle and promptly bought tickets for 11 months later...October 2016. If that's what it's gonna take, so be it Hoping that at least some of the original cast is still in it then. What's killing me is that everyone says NOT to listen to the cast recording until after I've seen it.... Well I haven't seen it but I have listened to the sound track. I read that there are 5 x the number of words in Hamilton compared to the average Broadway Show.. there are like 46 songs on the sound track, and every single time I listen I pick up on hear something different. I think it is one you want to know the words.. so you can sit back and enjoy the whole thing and not be thinking did he just call John Adams a Fat Mother.....
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Post by ktdoesntscrap on Feb 17, 2016 1:27:25 GMT
I credit The Little Mermaid with my daughters desire to be on Broadway, we saw it when she was 6, we had seats up high and i had to hold on rot the back of her dress as I thought she would fall into the row in front of us. When we got home she wrote her first fan letter to the boy who played Flounder. She has not looked back! She would have flipped with what I saw at the last Broadway Flea Market. They had original costumes from Mermaid on sale. I was able to totally examine the mermaid costume itself. Triton's costume was there too. There were probably be others, but those two attracted my attention. I have a ballet dancer. A crazy competitive field. Her back up plan you ask? Broadway. LOL! Crazy. She managed to get herself into a Fosse workshop last year and, had she ended up with an actual paying job, you would have said she was "discovered." These amazing people took her under their wing and mentored her, encouraging her to start auditioning when she turned 18. She still hasn't as she is riding the ballet bus for now, but maintaining her musical theater skills as much as she can while juggling full time ballet, part time college and life as an adult at 18 (you know, food shopping, laundry, etc). She would love that. Today Ursula is her dream role !! I know my daughter LOVES performing and MT, I support her 100% but there are times when I wish she loved Accounting! Any type of performing art is so competitive. Great for you daughter out there going after her dream. One thing I try to instill in my daughter is you can do Musical Theatre your entire life and love it, be in amazing shows, give amazing performances and never be on Broadway so focus on the art, and the rest will take care of its self. Will you get to go to Ohio to see your daughter perform?
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Post by bostonmama on Feb 17, 2016 1:29:01 GMT
Thanks peas. I found $277 tickets - we did not realize 10 months out was what we should have done. There are plenty of other wonderful shows we will be able to see though. We just won't be the "cool" guys. We see quite a few shows with Broadway Across America in Birmingham, I am waiting to see the Carole King Beautiful musical in Atlanta next spring. Where? When? I'm not finding any for less than around $475.
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Post by katybee on Feb 17, 2016 1:53:59 GMT
That is a sweet story. I saw Wicked right when it opened and wasn't impossible to get tickets. I didn't even want to go I just went along with the group! I was blown away. There is something about having no low expectations. I credit The Little Mermaid with my daughters desire to be on Broadway, we saw it when she was 6, we had seats up high and i had to hold on rot the back of her dress as I thought she would fall into the row in front of us. When we got home she wrote her first fan letter to the boy who played Flounder. She has not looked back! I haven't seen a professional production of Rent. Despite the fact that my BIL is Jonathan Larson's cousin. I saw Wicked when it opened too (and had discounted tickets) - glad I got that one early before it became so difficult to get tickets. Weren't Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth terrific? I saw Rent on Broadway and in Boston, mainly because I had a college friend who was a Rent fanatic and made it happen. In Boston we saw it a few times with rush tickets before that was a thing and you had to camp overnight to get them. My friend would go to the theater and see the second act when elderly people left the show at intermission and they gave her their tickets. I saw wicked in San Francisco before it opened on Broadway –because my next door neighbor happened to be a stage manager at the Curran theater. He used to get me free tickets to shows all the time. I had no idea what I was going to see that night – he was really excited and said it was really good, but I wasn't sure. Little did I know I was watching Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel in what would become such a HUGE hit! Boy do I miss those days!
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Post by melissa on Feb 17, 2016 2:43:11 GMT
Will you get to go to Ohio to see your daughter perform? Yes! I am hoping to go see her perform in Sleeping Beauty with the company later in the spring. Waiting to hear what the other performances are (I think those are not with the company) and hoping I can make some of those. Still waiting for my daughter to fall in love with something like accounting or law or computer science or anything that actually makes some money. At least she has her college acceptance and can keep working on her degree, little by little, and eventually will have a diploma to show for it.
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Post by janeinbama on Feb 17, 2016 3:01:01 GMT
Thanks peas. I found $277 tickets - we did not realize 10 months out was what we should have done. There are plenty of other wonderful shows we will be able to see though. We just won't be the "cool" guys. We see quite a few shows with Broadway Across America in Birmingham, I am waiting to see the Carole King Beautiful musical in Atlanta next spring. Where? When? I'm not finding any for less than around $475. This was weeks and weeks ago. My DDs are in their 30's. I must have mis-read Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder - I will add them back in the mix. School of Rock is another I am interested in. Just love Andrew Lloyd Weber.
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Post by pudgygroundhog on Feb 17, 2016 3:16:23 GMT
Where? When? I'm not finding any for less than around $475. This was weeks and weeks ago. My DDs are in their 30's. I must have mis-read Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder - I will add them back in the mix. School of Rock is another I am interested in. Just love Andrew Lloyd Weber. A Gentleman's Guide is closed, but An American in Paris is not.
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Post by sacteach on Feb 17, 2016 6:03:25 GMT
I'm so close to booking a quick trip to NYC to see Hamilton before the original cast contracts expire. Even though it's coming to to SF, I want to see Lin, Daveed, Leslie, Philippa, Jonathan, etc.
My tentative plan is to fly in on a Tuesday morning, buy a ticket for Tuesday night (I'm willing to pay about $600), then do the cancellation line for either Wednesday show, find something else at TKTS to see for the show that I don't get a ticket for, run in Central Park on Thursday morning, and fly out on Thursday afternoon. If I can get the entire trip for under $1500, I'm going to do it!
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Post by peabay on Feb 17, 2016 12:29:20 GMT
I paid 550 a ticket for fourth row mezz for the day after Christmas and I would do it again in a heartbeat. (thanks, Mom!)
I can't read your subject title without singing it to the tune of "He's never going to be President now..."
Why not see "Something Rotten?" It's fun and a crowd pleaser. It's not "high brow" but it's enjoyable and a big, splashy musical and it has Christian Borle, who is my favorite Broadway performer.
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Post by pudgygroundhog on Feb 17, 2016 14:57:16 GMT
I paid 550 a ticket for fourth row mezz for the day after Christmas and I would do it again in a heartbeat. (thanks, Mom!) I can't read your subject title without singing it to the tune of "He's never going to be President now..." Why not see "Something Rotten?" It's fun and a crowd pleaser. It's not "high brow" but it's enjoyable and a big, splashy musical and it has Christian Borle, who is my favorite Broadway performer. Loved Christian Borle in "Something Rotten".
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Post by betsyg on Feb 17, 2016 15:29:40 GMT
School of Rock is on my list as is The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night - not a musical but a very great play.
And, if you haven't seen Matilda yet, I highly recommend it. I know it is starting to tour next year with the Broadway Series, so it will make its rounds. Looking forward to seeing it again.
Rent is actually part of the Broadway Series next year as well for it's 20th anniversary tour.
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Post by peabay on Feb 17, 2016 16:26:43 GMT
And my .02 on listening to the Hamilton cast recording is to listen to the first act. It gets your ear attuned to the rhythm and rhyme and style. But it doesn't spoil any of the juicy stuff. You get used to how the story is told in both hip hop and traditional Broadway music, but you're still surprised by all that goes on in the second act.
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