Howard is correct! If you read my thread on deciding the best time to visit New York, you will see that a must-do on our list for that trip was to see The Book of Mormon. While weighing our options, entire shows went from having decent seats available to being sold out over the course of several days! There is no way to know, of course, but I theorize quite a few of those tickets end up on StubHub or other secondary outlets. That said, we have ours. We have no hotel or plane reservations, but we DO have our tickets to see The Book of Mormon! :)

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It would be helpful to note that our tickets are for May 23rd and I bought them earlier this week.

Hey, at least you have your priorities right! You're gonna love the show!

We sawFollies a couple weeks ago and loved it, so I guess I'm joining the club :)

I also want to add aplug for Other Desert Cities, which I thought was fantastic. Wonderful performances by the entire cast.

Just saw "Book of Mormon" (bought tickets in late-April) and LOVED it. Actually found the story to be rather "sweet" and somewhat inspirational, despite vulgarity (which didn't offend us, but might offend others). Also saw "Bonnie and Clyde." Now, that was awesome. The chemistry between Bonnie and Clyde was intense, the music beautiful. But if you're looking for big "song and dance" numbers, "Bonnie and Clyde" isn't for you. But a good story, great staging, great music and songs, and incredible performances from all. I'll be very interested to see the reviews after the official opening on December 1st. For what it is worth to anyone, we absolutely loved it.

Heading out the first week in Dec. Already have tickets to Book of Mormon and can hardly wait! Bonnie & Clyde? Sounds like a possibility? We are only there a few nights and want to pack in as much as possible, but DD loves musicals! I really wanted War Horse but think a musical is going to win out.

If I were there, I'd want to see this -
http://standingonceremony.net/

cat...please report back on The Book of Mormon--would love to hear what you thought of it!

A nice article about Barbara Cook -

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/84-barb...121516716.html

Thanks for the info on Bonnie & Clyde, I have tickets for the 17th, bought them early hoping the show would open to decent reviews.

Loved "Other Desert Cities", they just extended this to March, the actors/show/writing are incredible!

Starrs, thanks for the info on the Barbara Cook article. She is one of our all-time favorites. We've seen her many times. Perhaps the most memorable occurred when we had the good fortune to be in the audience when she gave a master class to three young singers. It was, indeed, a memorable, as well as thrilling, experience...and certainly made it so clear as to why she is such a great interpreter of songs.

http://www.playbill.com/news/article...-at-Feinsteins

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Since Barbara Cook came up here, I will now (shamelessly) promote another singer: Daryl Sherman.

Jazz Brunch at the Algonquin Oak Room on Saturday December 10; Daryl is my neighbor and she is really very good:




http://www.darylsherman.com/pages/calendar.php


http://www.algonquinhotel.com/jazz-brunch

And you can say hello to (the newly leashed) Matilda, the cat, after brunch.

I'd love to spend an evening at Feinstein's with one of those performers. Unfortunately I don't feel like mortgaging my house to be able to afford it.

Is anyone else looking forward to Manhattan Theater Co.'s production of Wit? This is one I want to see. Will probably get tix for preview.

My sentiments exactly, Patrick!

Though they had some good things to say about the two leads, the NY critics were not favorably inclined towards Bonnie & Clyde.

Have the New York critics EVER been kind to any Frank Wildhorn show, including Jekyl and Hyde, Scarlet Pimpernel, or Wonderland? The Broadway blog I follow pretty much predicted that the critics would hate Bonnie and Clyde. One of the funniest critic comments I read about it was that the show tries to copy the movie (in my opinion it doesn't even begin to --despite it working from the same base material. But when that critic mentioned that they even copied the title from the movie, I had to laugh. What were they supposed to call it -- "Clyde and Bonnie"?

I saw Bonnie and Clyde in Sarasota this past year -- pre-Broadway -- and found it pretty exciting as a "small" musical. I'm anxious to see it again this Wednesday night, regardless of what the critics say. But then I really liked Jekyl and Hyde (with the original cast) and even enjoyed Wonderland.

>>cat...please report back on The Book of Mormon--would love to hear what you thought of it!<<

It was wonderful! Very funny, totally irreverent, quite a fun show. The music and the acting were all really good. It would have been better had the two women behind us not kept up a running dialogue, and it was rather unfortunate that two people in our row felt they had to bold out before the end of the curtain call, but that was minor. Probably noticed it more because Eugene O'Neill is a very small theatre. I am so glad we got a chance to see it on Broadway. Heard it is coming to LA next year, and I'm sure we we will see it again.

That being said, our favorite was Godspell at the Circle in the Square. Neither of us had ever seen it before, so I con't compare it, but both my 16 yo dd and I LOVED it! The cast was so fun and exuberant, you couldn't help but smile and laugh along with them. It was very intimate, and they invited the entire audience on stage during intermission and afterward. And they all came out and signed autographs and chatted afterwards. It was not close to sold out, so I am sure discount seating is available. I highly recommend it!

Thanks...it sounds wonderful and I'm sure we will love it!

Godspell was a huge show when I was in high school (mid-70's) and I was a bit obsessed with it for a time. The local playhouse put it on one summer and I went multiple times. It sounds like a cool show--we will consider it if it is still playing in May when we are there.