Joe Cab

See it if IT was great to C Let's Make a Deal TV host doing Xtra long raps cause he's an Xtra guy. The human Beat box & solo fem-singer added to show.

Don't see it if Don't see if U don't like being "tricked" into believing these are actual TEN MINUTE LONG raps that haven't been rehearsed a million times??

See it if JUST GO!! One note: I noticed that SOLD SEATS (prolly to scalpers went unfilled, so at the 1st intermission moved from my CHEAP SEAT!!

Don't see it if GO if U like seeing the Laurence Oliviers of our generation Sir Simon Russell Beale. Other 2 ACTORS Top notch. If U miss this U will regret!

See it if ALL I CAN SAY IS THIS: Buy a frickin ticket in the Mezzanine or else U won't see any1 go down down down under the stage to Hadestown. Got it

Don't see it if Don't see if myths-made-real R confusin 2U. Also, there's a lot of singing, & lots of reprising of songs, so many that the Program gives UP?

See it if Not an improv show, but one that has been done so long w/ the same people that it gives the appearance of being made up on the spot. Cheers!

Don't see it if Don't C if U don't like the F-word or being forced to shout it yerself. Not for Shakespeare purists either, the bard's words R-just-a-guide.

See it if In the 1st 2-1/2 min of play, the N-word is spoken '15' times & the F-word about '5'. More profanity than every other play on Bway combined?

Don't see it if Don't see if U don't know what U R about to see. Research it, watch the Steppenwolf prod on PRIME (no charge-4-members). LIVE is 10x in10se!

See it if "A Charmed Life" should add (Mostly) to the title because the Diva's story did include a dear friend lost to AIDS. Somehow, no #BLM moments?

Don't see it if Not an Opera fan? And if so, U better like CARMEN cause a good chunk of the show is dedicated to it. Casting peeps for The Met call 4 comps?

See it if If you like close-up magic w/ a bunch of philosophical observations thrown this may be your guy. If he asks 4 volunteers for ANYTHING say NO

Don't see it if Don't see if U're expecting David Copperfield or if you prefer more magic than talking. Also, audience participation starts from the get-go?

See it if I did not see Nick Blaemire play 'Jon'. I saw the City Center Encores -Off Center! version w/ Lin Manuel Miranda as 'Jon' -June 2014 BOOM!!

Don't see it if If U don't like seeing Leslie Odom, Jr as 'Michael' or Karen Olivo as 'Susan' then U R crazy [Showscore needs to add these Off Center shows]

See it if If you never get a chance to go to the Beach, much less a Rhode Island beach like in the story, at least U can feast your eyes on white sand

Don't see it if If U don't like veteran actors like Jonathan Hadary stuck in minor roles on raked stages doing monologues about ... what? Jesus? WW2? Death?

See it if Two Tony-award winners Nathan Lane & Brit-actor Andrew Garfield carry the show, but in totally different ways. NL gets the laffs & AG tears

Don't see it if Don't see if U are homophobic or would be uncomfortable seeing a man running naked around the stage with his manhood flopping up & down.

See it if I saw this 3/4/20 after 2 main cast members departed in Feb (should have done my research?). Show is still intact w/ great voices aplenty!!

Don't see it if Hate Motown? Skip it. Hate shows that let Berry Gordy off the hook? Skip it. Hate jukebox musicals (a la "Beautiful") w/ some backstory ??

Also 1st-HIT: The Way You Do the Things You Do 2:39
Run Away Child, Running Wild 3:29
Gloria 2:00
In the Still of the Night / Speedo 2:48
Shout 4:58
I Want A Love I Can See 2:01
My Girl 3:33
Get Ready 1:41
-->Supremes Medley: You Can't Hurry Love / Come See About Me / Baby Love 2:32
Since I Lost My Baby 4:52
Ain't Too Proud To Beg 1:48
Don't Look Back / You're My 2:11
If I Could Build My Whole World Around You 2:02
If You Don't Know Me By Now 2:10
(I Know) I'm Losing You 3:03
I Wish It Would Rain 2:32
I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You) 2:17
I Can't Get Next To You 3:20
I'm Gonna Make You Love Me 2:36
War 1:18
Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today) 2:15
Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) 3:12
Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are) 1:31
For Once In My Life 2:33
Papa Was A Rollin' Stone (Pt. 1) 1:04
Cloud Nine 3:20
Papa Was A Rollin' Stone (Pt. 2) 4:59
28. What Becomes of the Brokenhearted 3:31
29. I Can't Get Next To You... Read more Read less

See it if I heard a lot of conflicting reviews about this show, but you'll only be offended if you're not a 'guy'. Porn talk is pretty normal for us.

Don't see it if Don't go if U R expecting a "sex show" or nudity. Most of it is talk-talk-talk, but it could offend people that are inexperienced sexually.

Also The PLAYROOM theater must have been an old strip joint before Actors-Equity took over the building. U have to take an elevator to the 8th fl and there's not much of a lobby area. Bathrooms are surprisingly clean. SPOILERS: As for the show, the most amazing part is THE SET, the entire show takes place in Naval Aircraft Carrier, which already makes the plot suspect, since an avg. sailor "sneaks" a local girl onto the ship without anyone knowing. That is, until the most by-the-book CPO finds them together, threatens prison time for both and then relents. On one condition, when the sailor is on deck the CPO will be with his girl below decks. A sordid deal, but they all agree. Then the major part of the show is the CPO's "training" in both Naval lingo and porn lingo since she doesn't seem to know anything about either. She does shed some clothes at one point, but is never naked or topless. The CPO speaks for about an hour about his carnal plans for the girl but she never gives in. NO RAPE.... Read more Read less

See it if 3 doors in the rear of the stage are your 1st clue that there are 3 stories going on AT THE SAME TIME. This is Mamet cubed, if U can keep up

Don't see it if Don't watch from the front row if U go, & be prepared to wait out awkward silences 2 allow others 2 speak since scenes occur simultaneously.

Also First time seeing actor Carla Gugino on stage (her character is important but spends most of the time standing in place babbling).

The Atlantic stage has been re-furbished since my last decades,-old visit... new water fountain too.🎭

ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE -
Closing date: March 15, 2020 -- Written by Alice Birch -Playwright (Off-Broadway debut)
Lileana Blain-Cruz -Director --

Actor (Main cast) - Role
Carla Gugino - Carol
Celeste Arias - Anna
Gabby Beans - Bonnie
Ava Briglia (tween) -Daisy/Anna/Child
Julian Elijah Martinez - Jamie
Jo Mei - Jo/Laura/Lola

[NOTE: Play is performed 'a la David Mamet' with interwoven dialogue & multiple scenes on stage simultaneously. A suicide is done onstage (but creatively). A LIVE rabbit appears onstage but is not harmed. The 'tween' character engages in some inappropriate behavior.

Overall, a difficult watch the 1st time thru, 2nd sitting might be better (further back from stage - I was in the front row).... Read more Read less

See it if Know this, Molly Brown's episodes w/ the Titanic briefly make up the start & finish of the show. The main story is about Molly & her hubby!!

Don't see it if Skip if U don't like old-fashioned musical revivals. Also the stage seems a bit small for an orchestra pit & U may worry 4 the safety of all

Also 9-piece orchestra sounds glorious in such a small Off-Bdwy theater way out on the LES of Manhattan. Either Uber or be prepared to walk a ways from the subway. Full-cast musical numbers are a real hoot led by Beth Malone, who knew she could do broad comedy after her intimate run in FUN HOME. David Aron Demane proves a real find as Molly's long suffering husband who tries to curb his wife's ambitions but is continually made foolish in front of his man-friends. The ensemble cast is pricelessly cast as saloon girls in the mining town and later as rich, pompous matrons in the burgeoning city of Denver. Lots of humor throughout but if U love Beth Malone this is your MUST-SEE of 2020.... Read more Read less

See it if Game cast needs stage combat training after delivering the most silent slap in stage history. Otherwise, a commendable job in a lil space.

Don't see it if Don't see if you're a feminist & despise women living with a anti-equality guy. Also if the title leads U to imagining violence onstage, not

See it if I never saw the film (or don't remember it) but StephenBelber's script seems more suited to the Stage than the Big Screen so fans might like

Don't see it if If U prefer large cast shows (only 3 here) or grow weary of watchin a director trying to maneuver actors in a tiny space strewn w/ beer cans

Also Know your Playwright Stephen Belber: "Don't Go Gentle" (Lucille Lortel/2012)
"Fault Lines" (Cherry Lane Theater/2008)
"A Small, Melodramatic Story" (Public Theater/2006)
"McReele" (Laura Pels Theater/2005) "The Laramie Project" Union Square Theater/2000/Associate Writer)... Read more Read less

See it if Got a good seat for the Wooster Group's new "experimental" theater piece. Checking that off the "Bucket List."

Don't see it if A play that defies what a play is, actors have pre-recorded their lines that they lip-sync on stage. Video is shown many times throughout.

See it if Fine cast puts across the points of the Pulitzer Prize winning play, tho it could've been updated to the next war (or even now). Racism4ever

Don't see it if Whose idea was it 2 do this play in an intimate house WITH MIKES! Especially in a military-oriented show where EVERYONE yells at one another

Also If you are offended by the N-word they only use once or twice even tho this play is based in the Old South. Back in the days before the troops were integrated. Great cast (esp. Blair Underwood) carries it off well. Poor David Alan Grier is loser of a number of altercations and nearly slides off the slick, polished, black stage at least once during the performance. Spare set allows for rapid scene changes and tightens the tension at the same time. Sadly, one actor was either miscast or was allowed to make a poor decision by acting more intelligent than his "character." If you saw the film by dir. Norman Jewison feat. Denzel Washington then U might seek that out online (as "A Soldier's Story") for a fuller expansion of the play. But see the play too, it'll demonstrate the differences a film can add/subtract. One subtraction is the amount of unaccompanied singing the soldiers do to keep their morale up. I don't remember Denzel singing in the movie at all.... Read more Read less

See it if Do you know your Samoan slang? Study the glossary in the program or just sit back absorb the tribal women's stories. Not for all tastes. Go!

Don't see it if If U can't tolerate shows with undecipherable moments, or group chanting w/ minimal percussion back-up. Cast telling stories direct address.

Also Go to this website vup.victoria.ac.nz/wild-dogs-under-my-skirt for script. The more you decipher before entering the theater the more you will understand. High energy singing combined with dramatic story-telling by 6-member cast. One man sits in front row of theater playing a single drum from time-to-time. Cast is uniformly excellent with some amateurish habits. Some over-acting but in keeping with the folktale nature of the show. Worth seeing no matter what your reservations may be. The Rock may be the biggest Samoan star on the planet but these six are worth seeing too. Just GO! #bucketlist... Read more Read less

See it if Edmund Donovan as the mentally disabled son to Judith Ivey (veteran Tony-winning actress) nearly steals the show, but Ivey is in top form!!

Don't see it if Don't C if U don't like 3-act plays that run for hours covering multiple storylines. Don't see if U don't like tragic endings.

Also Odd set involves a separate room being lowered by crane/hoist from above. It's only used twice but really takes you out of the reality of the rest of the play. MUST-SEE for Judith Ivey's mature perf. Diverse cast makes use of Asian-American and Caucasion actors due to the locale's use of a Japanese Relocation Center nearby. Play also touches on the use of Asian laborers & possibe slave-wages. Also of historical note, the play spends most of its time in a mining museum which highlights an earlier mining disaster. Somehow the playwright tries to connect the dots from the past to the present. Did not quite work for me but worth watching, might get better as the run goes along so try for Closing Night tix??... Read more Read less

See it if Playwright Horton Foote loves his characters, so much so that he carries them from play to play. Longtime fans may get it, newbies good luck

Don't see it if Skip if U don't like tragi-comedies where the hero blinded by complacency finds out (2 late) that he's in deeper than he ever could imagine?

Also Broadway theater-goers may want to see this not only for ex-movie star Quinn (he was also 'Stanley' in the 1988 Bdwy "A Streetcar Named Desire"), but longtime female character actor Kristine Nielsen (12-times on the Bway) up close on the Signature stage. Sadly, 5-time Bway vet Harriett D. Foy is relegated to playing the family "maid." If I never see African-Americans as servants again I will be grateful. Even in the slave-trading show AMAZING GRACE she stunned as an African princess. Dated material overall, not sure if this ... ATLANTA story needed to be told at all. Some "hints" of homosexual romance are never fully brought out, and worst of all, the title character appears several times "Off Stage" but never enters?? If U R heavily invested in Foote's works then U may get more from this (last?) one than I did. Cast was first-rate but wasted in my estimation. You've been warned!... Read more Read less

See it if Slice-of-life look at how a person (Chris, etc.) comes into their identity, tho each key moment is shown thru different actors over time.

Don't see it if Don't like multiple actors of different gender, race, cultural bgd playing same character. Dislike having to "find" who is Chris (SAY name)!

Also So I tried a little harder on the lottery game & scored an "Off-Broadway" ticket (for a change). Actually the 2nd show I've seen by playwright Will Eno (last year's "Thom Paine," a 1-man show starring Michael C. Hall was my 1st). Currently in Previews -- October 29, 2019 Opening date: Nov 21st -- Closing date -- Dec 15th --
Second Stage Theater -- Dir. by Kenny Leon -- Ensemble (many of male/femme characters play a version of the title character: Chris, Christine, Krista, etc.): Hannah Cabell N/A Michael Countryman, Ebony Jo-Ann, Lenne Klingaman, Lizbeth MacKay, Nedra McClyde, Howard W. Overshown, Isabella Russo, Charles Turner, Luis Vega [Note: Will Eno is a love him/hate him but sometimes entertaining writer, give him a try and report back]... Read more Read less

See it if If U find the writings of Gabriel Garcia Marquez a bit daunting then this lively production of ...MACONDO may spur U to try again. Funny too

Don't see it if Skip if characters with impossibly long names bother you, or actors playing multiple characters & switching between solo & group performance

Also If you like lovely ladies, much moreso than usual at the Russian Arts Theater & Studio, then this is a feast for the eyes. The men are a varied lot but bold in their acting choices. In fact, the entire cast makes the most of every moment of the play giving vigorous and entertaining performances. It would be impossible to read the original text that the show is based before it closes in late November, but you would be remiss not to see ...MACONDA now and try the reading later. What a cast, a director's dream!! <3... Read more Read less

See it if Oddest of oddball love triangles featuring an animal collector & his prize possession: A Woman covered head to toe with Hair. Not for all??

Don't see it if Adventurous auds only, especially Beatles fans with ideas about copyright infringement. Bald people may feel jealous of the constructed 1zee

Also There are several scenes inolving the eating of raw animals (stuffed ones with jelly or some such hidden inside to make weak stomachs queasy). Still, if you're tired of the same old seance-female empowerment plays going up around town then this ribald tale might be up your alley. Special kudos to the actor playing the hairy woman (a very hot costume for sure) plus having to eat a lot of gross stuff off the floor.... Read more Read less

See it if I've been making the Off-Off Bdwy rounds (mainly female playwrights) & POWER STRIP is the best of the bunch. Linear story w/ flashbacks. GO!

Don't see it if Don't see if you don't like seeing stories about refugees, paranoia, and romances torpedoed by religious laws & horrifying circumstances.

See it if Sorkin's adaptation really tries-2 close the gap btwn racism then & now. AND, pretty much nails it on the head. Jeff Daniels was born-4-this

Don't see it if I think 1scene could hav pumped up the action a lil more but evrythin is so good I can't complain. Bways Best USA play. Bad news-NO beer??

See it if OMG, what a nightmare, 1 guy was nice, check'd my vaccine card, THEN took my temp. THEN a granny submitted me to a quiz that is for UNvaxxed

Don't see it if Lastly, the 3rd lady had a thick KGB accent & I finally got my program & was told2 stand in A LINE OUTSIDE -Show starts 20min late -DONTGO

See it if Main character in the show is the Narrator who intro's many others, w/ some getting more stage time than others. Harmonica & guitar enhance!

Don't see it if Not for those unfamiliar w/ the gossipy the cultural of small-town life. Drink some coffee b4 the show, the vocal tone may put U2 sleep ...

See it if In the 1st 2-1/2 min of play, the N-word is spoken '15' times & the F-word about '5'. More profanity than every other play on Bway combined?

Don't see it if It was filmed 4 Amazon PRIME during a sold-out run @ the Steppenwold theater, which specializes in edgy fare. Find a pal who's seen it 1st

See it if The majority of these reviews were made Pre-Covid. I saw it last nite (7/31) & it's been updated & politicized & IT'S FANTASTIC!! Go NOW!!

Don't see it if Don't see if you're a Trumper or if U don't like drag impersonation. Sure, Peter Mac is a baritone, but the costumes & inside stories KILL!!

See it if F-words & N-words galore but this urban "Waiting for Godot" has a fantastic '3' actor cast that makes it palatable. 4get the PRIME version!!

Don't see it if If u're not hip to urban lingo dont go, but this VERSION 2.0 is more Bway friendly w/ acapella songs from OK, Wizard of Oz & more. No breaks

See it if Four femme actors onstage who seem to work in a clothing store, but most of the "work" is done off-stage. A ritual is implied, but not sure?

Don't see it if If you don't like ambiguous small-cast shows and don't want to support new theater companies trying to find a foothold in unusual spaces.

See it if I saw tPoP in 2005 at the City Center in Manhattan by the Gilbert&Sullivan Players. BUT this is a funny show no matter who does it. GO C IT!

Don't see it if If U don't like singing pirates, keystone kops, orphans, a diva named Mabel, & the very Model of a Modern Major General? Hal Linden or no-GO

See it if I came to see Epatha Merkerson (from TV's Law & Order), but this was totally outside even my minimum expectations. Couldn't hear, bad seat

Don't see it if Think notable actors like Merkerson, Daphne Ruben-Vega, Bobby Cannavale, Mos Def, & Peter Gerety can't be undone by a messy script? WITNESS!

See it if If U go to a 1-person show & the soloist is OUT, run to the boxoffice & re-book or suffer nagging doubts about what you missed. Average show

Don't see it if Skip if U don't like alt-pop music that rarely connects w/ the stories told between songs. If U heard about Young Jun Lee's perfs -long gone

Also BIG SPOILER: Playwright-performer YJL does show LIVE here: https://youngjeanlee.org/work/were-gonna-die/... Read more Read less

See it if Action shifts back & forth in Time, but justifies the backstory. 30-time Broadway veteran Estelle Parsons has a small but key role. See it!

Don't see it if Skip if U like songs to have choruses instead of listening to run-on dramatic monologues. Also if U R looking for more comedy than drama.

Also Great cast, musical writing style is bit repetitive if you like a good chorus to hum as you are leaving the theater. Not sure if this show is uptempo enough for Broadway, but with Estelle Parsons in the cast they have a selling point. There aren't that many musicals Off-Bdwy so go out and support this one, plus once it goes Bdwy the prices go UP-UP-UP!!... Read more Read less

See it if Not for all tastes, but if a Man-in-Drag is what you're looking for then you'll find none better than Charles Busch. Need I say more??

Don't see it if Don't see if you haven't filled up on caffeinated drinks just prior to viewing. Skip if slow but melodramatic pacing makes U sleepy ...

See it if Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) was a movie that travelled beyond the bedroom. Musical-remake suffers from limited staging & lack of nudity

Don't see it if Don't see if U thought the 60's was wilder than a modest pair of tighty-whities (Y R they hugging the bedsheet to their chests in an "orgy"?

Also The movie was Rated R, I give this marital comedy on stage a PG-13 at best. Also in the movie were 3-songs including this memorable tune: "What the World Needs Now Is Love (Sweet Love)" by Hal David and Burt Bacharach. Nothing half so memorable emerges from the writing team of Duncan Sheik & Amanda Green. One of the better songs (there are a few) is "A Little Misbehavior." which kind of sums up adultery for "fun." Also good is "The Wind in your Hair" but they reprise it too many times throughout the show. If you're of "age" U may find infidelity to be funnier than Millennials will so leave the teens at home. Worth a look/listen for the curious, and if U do go, get a seat in the front row & U may end up being on stage IN THE SHOW!! And if U like Jenn Damiano sit House Left, want to hang with the guys go for House Right seating.... Read more Read less

See it if NOT FOR ALL TASTES!! It's only Feb. & I've already seen TWO shows where the actors lip-synced the lines that they or someone else recorded.

Don't see it if Do not go if U are resistant to this new lip-sync trend. Also, some of the content is very graphic with description of violence & torture.

Also SPOILERS: The original show featured the real DANA H. lip-synching her own testimony since she was not a trained actor. Now they've got the luminous Deidre O'Connell playing her role with an amazing feat of physical mimicry. Much of the story revolves around Dana's kidnap & torture by The Cowboy, a main member of the American Nazi Party. Sort of like a Patty Hearst type victim's point-of-view monologue. But is she a reliable narrator? That's for the audience to decide. GO SEE IT!!... Read more Read less

See it if It's back and it'll be gone by Feb. 16th??? Catch it this weekend if you can, funnier than all the shows on the Bway COMBINED!! Amazing cast

Don't see it if Skip if U don't like to laugh, or laughing AT shows U think are perfect only to have to watch them so juicily skewered. Fans of THE FERRYMAN

Also Hadestown, Moulin Rouge, Dear Evan Hansen, Ain't Too Proud, Everything in Yiddish (not just for Fiddler), Oklahoma (the new version), The Prom, etc. etc. Many of the shows are sent up in such a way that you don't have to have seen them to be amused by the spoofing.... Read more Read less

See it if This show's bonus, if U R a fan of TV's "Blue Bloods," is actor Len Cariou starring in both, so co-stars are apt to show up in the audience.

Don't see it if 83-yr old "Harry" is fighting alzheimers & maybe LC (age 81) is a lil too. Lots of yelling & awkwardly recalling his sexual episodes w/ wife

See it if If U braved the EMOJI movie w/ your kids, then know that EMOJILAND is NOTHING like that movie & not kiddie-material either. Techno-dialogue.

Don't see it if Skip if U don't like zany, wacky characters & prefer your emoticons more realistically portrayed- Really? Tho some of them do get emotional

Also First act is over an hour (so far, saw this in Previews), so hit the bathroom before entering the theater. Plus the toilets are bit on the small side at THE DUKE. They use lasers in the show but mostly pointing up if that's a concern. Music is LOUD throughout so U don't need a hearing device. Other wise an extremely well-cast show with long-time veterans like Queen Lesli, Ann Harada (1-2nd act-song), Max Crumm, Josh Lamon, & Felicia Boswell knocks the walls down with her power-vocals. One note on the stage, it is VERY close to the first 5 rows so if U don't like fierce actors staring deeply in your eyes U might want to get seats beyond the 7th row. This cast means business, and these emoticons EMOTE like nobody's business. See it now or pay $200 later cause it looked Bway-ready last night!!! GO!!!... Read more Read less

See it if 2-handers as a rule benefit from the chemistry between the 2 actors. In this case 1 was a Bdwy debut & the other was a veteran of the B-way!

Don't see it if Well, I must have been too far back or more tired that I thought, cause Mary-Louise Parker's voice hypnotized me & off I went to La-La Land?

Also Maybe drink some coffee or soda w/ caffeine before the show. Also try to get a seat closer to the stage so you will be riveted to the proceedings. There's nothing worse than paying Broadway prices and sleeping through a show :(... Read more Read less

See it if WOW!! Forget those mimes a coupla blocks downtown, this new adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic has all the SNOW U need & dialogue too

Don't see it if If U R a Dickens purist U may have problems w/ some edits&additions. Diversity casting as well as cast interaction w/ audience is a bit much

Also SPOILERS:
What an overstuffed production that will wow some while feel like pandering to purists. 10 min. before the show starts a quartet of musicians take the stage, meanwhile actors infiltrate the audience offering packs of cookies & Clementine oranges. Some of this is entertaining as they begin to throw these items from the stage to deep in the audience (orchestra, mezzanine, & balcony). More musicians appear and actors milling about stage when they recite the title of the story and begin to tell it as written w/ each actor given a bit directly from the Dickens text. When Scrooge (Campbell Scott) appears the ensemble continues to speak like a "chorus" with more of the descriptions from the original story. Then dialogue follows between Scrooge and his office workers. All the expected dismissal of Carolers & Xmas greetings. The thrust stage keeps the audience very involved in the show kept glowing "warm" with dozens of "gas" lamps throughout the theater. See this, U could do worse!... Read more Read less

See it if '9' women take the stage en masse to re-set the play in a Nawlins Mardi Gras, but then fan out into their respective characters. Great sax 2

Don't see it if Don't bother if U R a strict Shakespearean scholar & don't like crossgender casting. Or if U don't like a little actor improv mixed in.

See it if Go see 85 yr old Eileen Atkins for the last time. Or as the play sometimes indicates, perhaps she is Dead already?? Who's dead? All of them?

Don't see it if Don't go if U like to know who is dead & who is alive with certainty. At least they change the make-up in BEETLEJUICE, but here any1 or ALL?

Also Remember the movie the SIXTH SENSE with Bruce Willis (SPOILER ALERT), well no one knew he was dead till the final "twist" of the movie. Here, the script is so vague one, two, or all of the participants could be dead and the play ends without out a twist ... just the two main participants on stage. Living & dead interact together throughout the play so it could have been a haunted house for all we know. Less confusion would have been better ... and more interesting. Noel Coward's BLITHE SPIRIT should be revived to show how it's supposed to be done. Cast-THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM Eileen Atkins as Madeleine
Jonathan Pryce as André
Lucy Cohu [Bway debut] - The Woman
Amanda Drew [Bway debut] as Anne (youngest daughter)
James Hillier [Bway debut] as The Man
Lisa O'Hare as Élise (the daughter)... Read more Read less

See it if They really should have sold the 8-show run as a "package" for fans due to the number of guests that rotated in-and-out each night. Magic!!

Don't see it if If U don't like KC why bother, unless U like 1 of her many guests: CeCe Winans, Chele Wright, Laura Benanti, etc. Also, if U dislike WICKED

Also Guests for Wknd 2:
11/15
CeCe Winans
Ginna Claire Mason (current Glinda? how did she get a Friday night off??)
11/16-mat
Laura Benanti
Jennifer Laura Thompson (2nd Glinda after KC)
11/16-eve
Chele Wright
Laura Woyasz (Glinda 2011)
11/17-Closing night
Shoshana Bean
Stephen Schwartz (Wicked composer
Jessica Vosk (Elphaba 2018)
Amanda Jane Cooper (Glinda 2017)... Read more Read less

See it if I saw the non-musical version of this on Broadway in 2003 w/ Molly RIngwald as Rose. A simple but easy-to-like story set in 1922. Homesick??

Don't see it if Although some lines R funny, they come in response to marital duress. Enchantment is in the eye of the beholder & mostly women attended.

Also Although still in previews, I'm not sure the current casting will send audiences thronging to the boxoffice. Currently starring Leah Hocking (10 roles on the Bway, mainly character parts) and tho a delight, the 2003 version contained not only Molly Ringwald (movies include "Pretty in Pink," etc.), but "name" actors like Elizabeth Ashley, Jayne Atkinson,
Michael Cumpsty & Dagmara Dominczyk. With no "names" this musicals life is going to be shortlived & they certainly need to find someone to bring investors to cover wigs, make-up, & costumes alone (not to mention a more paradisical set). I also found Act I to be quite lacking (which in some ways sets up the enchantment to follow), and needs to be shortened or sped up somehow. Even the composer has saved all the really good songs for Act 2, especially the solo's.... Read more Read less

See it if The clock's tickin folks! At the end of FROZEN's 2nd yr on Bdwy it's '2' biggest stars'll be leaving, so don't delay seeing Patti & Caissie!

Don't see it if .. if U R a man who prefers to be seated among same (theater was packed w/ adult women, some kids). If U dislike seeing Special FX on stage.

Also Caissie Levy's voice alone is worth the price of admission, but the night I was there she was OUT & her standby Alyssa Fox knocked "Let If Go" out of the park. Even the ensemble has chops to spare including longtime chorus girl Tracee Beazer & the multi-talented Ryann Redmond. See this before the end of February 2020 if U want to see an outstanding version of the show. Amazing Special FX throughout to dazzle the kiddies, plus enuf kissing to gross out lil boys for days. ;p... Read more Read less

See it if Bella Abzug was a major force for Feminism in the 70's, so it's kind of ironic her story is being told by a MAN (in the 1st person no less)!

Don't see it if Skip if U don't want to hear a feminist rant, tho U could replace Nixon w/ Trump and it would still apply to today. If U hate his voice??

Also If U don't know your NYC political history then U might want to google Bella Abzug, though much of what's said is funny for both men & women. Especially look up the "Willie McGee" trial that Bella was involved with. Also, brush up on your Yiddish (& some German) if U want to get ALL the jokes. Still plenty to laff at for non-Yids. Some weighty political issues are weighed in on, but Peace and Security are 2 things U won't be leaving the theater with. But U will have a belly full of laughs!! GO SEE IT, Harvey's WORTH IT!!... Read more Read less