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I’M GOING TO NEW YORK AND SEEING A BUNCH OF BROADWAY!!!
In an effort to actually be there, I will not be very/at all active. See you all in a week!
shows I’ll see:
HadesTown, Once Upon A Mattress (with Sutton Foster), The Great Gatsby ( with Jermey Jordan), Stereophonic, The Outsiders, Suffs, Hell’s Kitchen, and Illinoise
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I’m back, IT WAS AMAZING! little disclaimer: I am a tech student. I see pretty lights and go
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here’s my rankings. Spoiler tags are only for space, none are actually for spoilers1. The Outsiders.
SpoilerRust and Ruin. I will never see a better show. It won the Tony for best sound design, and Storms, it absolutely deserved it. The lighting and special effects blew my mind. The rumble scene and Great Expectations alone put this play so far up there, it wasn’t even a contest. I could talk about this for hours. Literally so beautiful.
2. HadesTown
Spoilera close second. Firstly, my school is performing it in the fall. One stipulation so we could put it on was we couldn’t copy anything in the show, like choreography or set. Speaking of, THE WALL IS BEAUTIFUL!!!!! I WANT IT AND I CANT HAVE AND IT MAKES ME SAD
Jordan Fisher was a surprisingly good Orpheus, but the lighting and set were phenomenal. Also, after the show we got a Q&A with one of the Fates, and that was super cool(Jordan Fisher also came to say hi. So cool)
3. Stereophonic.
SpoilerOkay, so to get this out of the way, apparently this is one of the best examples of acting ever put on broadway. I wouldn’t be able to tell you, but I loved it, The actors did a wonderful job. The set was awesome, probably the best set we saw. The sound is the big outstanding piece to me. It was literally so good! Live mixing, the power in it, and the story was great.
4. Illinoise.
SpoilerThis show is weird. The actors have 0 lines, they’re just dancers. The singing all comes from these people elevated on the set. The dancing was beautiful, obviously won best choreography. I don’t know why I liked this show I just did. It was really interesting, but I felt there were a lot of unnecessary parts of it. Still beautiful. Oh also the lights. Top tier.
5. Once Upon A Mattress.
SpoilerThis show was just really refreshing. The set was kinda lame, costumes were dull, sound wasn’t very special, and the lighting made me physically feel pain. They had lots of cool little magic tricks, but mostly, I laughed a lot. It was just fun. This was only their second showing, Sutton Foster blew it out of the water, the whole cast was stacked. It was a great palate cleanser.
6. The Great Gatsby.
SpoilerThe set and costumes. Absolutely stunning. There was so much, I struggle to believe it all fit backstage. Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada were… pretty good. Sutton Foster was better. It was cool, but I don’t think anything but the sets and costumes were outstanding.
7. Suffs.
SpoilerThis show was meh. I liked it, but it just wasn’t impactful in any specific area. I liked the theme, but it was just so average. The coolest thing was that we were sitting right behind the soundboard and after the show one of my friends ambushed the engineer, and eventually, they offered to give us a backstage tour of the show. THAT’S RIGHT. I got a backstage tour of Suffs, and it was legitimately a highlight of the trip.
8. Hell’s Kitchen.
SpoilerThis was a Jukebox Musical. I didn’t like this one. Story was dull. Songs were a bit out of place at best, it was dull tech wise, and the Tony award winners in the show weren’t even there. I heard that the show was better if you were a mother or daughter, since it focuses on a mother daughter relationship, but I’m neither, and struggled to stay awake
