We saw Harvey on Saturday night and enjoyed it. In addition to Jim Parsons, the cast includes a number of other "stars", (Carol Kane and Charles Kimbrough) but Jim Parsons was clearly a big hit. It opens officially on 6/14, I believe, and I'm interested to read the reviews.

thank you MP07950...glad you liked Harvey...have tickets for the 29th and taking my mother...hopefully she enjoys herself.

Cast change info for starrs and anyone else planning to see The Best Man this summer:
On July 10, Cybill Shepherd replaces Candace Bergen and John Stamos replaces Eric McCormack; on July 24, Elizabeth Ashley replaces Angela Lansbury. James Earl Jones and John Larouquette will remain.

Harvey is absolutely delightful; opens tonite starring
Jim Parsons, Carol Kane,Larry Bryggman

Went to Times Sq TKTS kiosk at ~10:50am on Wednesday for a matinee ticket. Almost gave up when I saw the long line. Luckily, I spotted the PLAY Express line which was much, much shorter. I wanted to see One Man, Two Guvnors anyway so it worked out. Stood in line for about 15 minutes.

Thoroughly enjoyed One Man, Two Guvnors. James Corden absolutely deserved his Tony. The play is really funny and the comic timing among the cast is impeccable. Lots of other comedies tend to reuse the same jokes and it gets old fast, but One Man Two Govnors have fresh jokes every time. LOVE it!

Am I the only one who didn't like Peter & the Star Catcher??? Actually, I know I'm not the only one because my partner didn't care for it either.

I appreciated the creativity, and I liked the ending -- but not enough to recommend sitting through the rest of it :-( .

Good reviews for Jim Parsons and Harvey from the critics!

starrs, I have the same decision to make regarding War Horse. Do I see it in NYC in September or in October when it comes to Boston?

Please let me know what you decide and why, thanks!

While the seats at the Vivian Beaumont are not the most comfortable in the world for me or my legs, it is a great venue for War Horse with its wide open stage and wrap around seating. I have no idea what the venue will be like in Boston, but I assume it is a more traditional theatre with the audience considerably more "removed" from the intimacy of the show. That's the only real reason I can think of for preferring the NYC version. I would imagine the cast and the "horses" will be equally good.

sassy cat, if you can, I recommend seeing War Horse in NYC. The Vivian Beaumont theatre is unique, and MUCH smaller in scale than the Boston Opera House. You will get a much more intense experience in NYC, even if you're sitting upstairs in the mezzanine level. The intimate experience (and seeing the horse puppets up close) will be completely lost at the Opera House. Just my 2 cents...

Another "plus" factor for the Beaumont: There isn't a bad seat in the theater.
On another front, if you want to see Anything Goes, you've only got until August 5, when it'll close.

Not all orchestra seats are created equally at the Beaumont. This was pointed out to us during intermission once by four men sitting directly behind us. Their row had far less leg room than ours. I would not have believed it had I not seen it. Strange, but true!

Just to clarify my last comment: I was referring to site lines not comfort!

Ooops, that should be "sight lines," not "site lines"!

Thanks for the update!

That was clear, Howard. I was meaning to post my comment for ages, but forgot about it. It just happened to follow yours.

Thanks Neo, yk, HowardR and CPGirl,
OK, Good to hear there's a consensus and so Broadway it is for War Horse.

Buy tickets now for mid September (Saturday night or Sunday matinee) or wait to buy from TKTS booth?
I can get front row tickets... not everyones first choice I know but I think we'll have more legroom and DH is 6' 4" so maybe a good choice. Any further suggestions welcomed.

sassy, if price is a consideration, then I'd wait for a future discount offer for your dates )probably available mid to late July). On the other hand, if your husband's comfort is an important consideration, then get those tickets now! As for TKTS, it's not a certainty that Saturday night tickets would be available there.
cpg, I didn't mean for my comment to be a response to you specifically!

sassy cat, I know for sure that the Lincoln Center Atrium box office sells same day War Horse tix at 25% off. I follow their twitter feed and the discount is pretty much offered daily including most Sat/Sun: http://twitter.com/#!/LCAtrium

Here's more about the LC Atrium discount tix booth:
http://atrium.lincolncenter.org/inde...scount-tickets
(Tickets go on sale at 12noon)

Howard and yk, thanks for the further advice.

I'm leaning towards buying in advance for the extra legroom, the convenience of online purchase and the peace of mind that we'll have seats even though @25% off we could save about $100 on 3 tickets.
This will probably be the only Broadway show we see this year.

Okay, here's the Broadway Box discount on War Horse = BroadwayBox Special: Tickets just $79/85, Regularly $125/135

Does anyone know if the TKTS prices are LOWER? If the price is close, I'd rather save time and not wait in line. Thoughts?

Depending on the performance, TKTS offers either a 40 or 50 percent discount. So, your cost for $126 ticket would be either $75.60 or $63, depending on the discount, while the cost for a $136 ticket would be $75.60 or $68. Added to the price is a minor service charge, I believe. So, you are really not saving that much.
Of course, if you get the Broadwaybox tickets in advance either on line or by phone, you're paying a service charge of around $7-7.50 per ticket. If you wait until you get here and go to the box office, then there's no service charge.

Thanks HowardR.

Laughed so hard at One Man, Two Guv'nors!! What a fun night!

Questions: and SPOILER ALERT!!



When he asked if anyone had a sandwich, did someone in the audience say they had one? This happened during our show, and he seemed so surprised, but my daughter said it happened during her show, too, so now we're wondering if this was a plant? We also had a second person say he had a sandwich, but this didn't happen during my daughter's.

Another SPOILER ALERT:



While my husband suspected that Christine (who came onstage during the dinner scene) was a plant, I have to confess that i spent alot of the second act worrying about her because i didn't see her return to her seat!

These comments about One Man, Two Guvnors illusrate one of the key reasons reasons why the show is so successful and why James Cordon is so great in the lead. You don't know whether each interplay with the audience is ad lib or pre-planned.

ANOTHER SPOILER ALERT

In the performance we saw, the susposed audience member who came onstage during the banquet scene took a bow (wearing a bathrobe) during the curtain calls.

Howard, yes, we noticed what you said in your spoiler alert! :-)

Agreed about the show: James Cordon is so fresh and engaging and seems so sincere in his responses that it seems like he's doing it for the first time, even if he really isn't!!

skatedancer, when I saw One Man, Two Guvnors, the "sandwich" question was answered by an audience member who offered a hummus (or was it chickpea) sandwich.

yk, "hummus" also was the answer when we saw the show.
Incidentally, for those who haven't seen the show, knowing that these supposed "innocent" situations are rehearsed does not detract one bit from your enjoyment.

The sandwich guy and the woman who comes out at the end in the bathrobe are part of the show. There have been a few performances where an additional unknown person has offered a sandwich as well -- after all, having a sandwich in a purse is not an unusual thing -- but the act always shifts to the hummus one.

The two guys who help with the trunk are not plants. A friend saw a performance where one of those guys was in a kilt. Boy, did James Cordon get a lot of mileage and laughs out of that one!

Hi, all. To think about for the fall...
The Steppenwolf production of Virginia Woolf will be on Broadway this fall. Website went live today... pricey. But If you mark your calendars, maybe (maybe...???) you'll be able to get discounted tickets early in the run at TKTS.

I saw this production in Chicago and it was wonderful. Tracy Letts (playwright of "August: Osage County) stars in this opposite one Tony-nominated, equally incredible Amy Morton.
http://www.virginiawoolfbroadway.com/

Hope some of you can see it! I'd love to see it again but my pockets aren't that deep. Could go either way... may be a big hit, maybe not.

First, I feel badly for bringing all this up, because I feel like I've ruined some of the fun for new attendees; I probably should have started a new thread....

SPOILER ALERT
But, just to continue what I started....:-) During our show, a boy called out that he had a sandwich, and Cordon brought him up onstage, and had him open the bag and he took a bite of the sandwich (ham and cheese). It was not an actor in the play, but a boy of probably 13 years old, and Cordon did the bit -- and then some -- that I think he was saving for the hummus guy, who did speak out when Cordon asked again if anyone had a sandwich.

Anyway, it was one of those "you had to be there," but it was hysterical (which anyone who's seen the show is sure that it would be.).

also, so glad I saw the post on Virginia Woolf: one of my daughter's favorite plays and she is so excited to see it performed! We got the Amex tickets. I usually wait for discounts, but decided to jump on this and pay full price.....

given the choice of going to TKTS or the box office, I will always choose the box office. you can choose your seats

If you can only choose one - Best Man or War Horse. I will be going with my 20 yo daughter. Kind of interested in Best Man to see Lansbury, Jones and Laroquette, but we would need to go about a week after Cybill Shepherd and John Stamos come on - will one week be enough time to get all the kinks out? We'd love to see them too.

For those who haven't seen the wonderful One Man, Two Guvnors:
You've only got 7 more weeks before its limited engagement ends on Septmeber 2. And, there's a current discount offer that will be available until it closes.

Okay. Topping because I've got to narrow down my choices. 1M2G sounds good, HowardR.

I seem to be the only one who did not like 1 man 2 guvnors. I left at intermission. I have a good sense of humor, love to laugh and have fun, but I just did not get the "humor". I recommend wAR hORSE, i SAW THAT AS A MATINEE, 1MAN 2 GOVS THAT EVENING, MAYBE i WAS JUST TIRED.

War Horse was AMAZING!!!!


Karen

Last week I saw Harvey with Jim Parsons at The Roundabout. This is the BEST production by Roundabout I've seen in years. It's amazing how well this almost 70 year old play holds up -- albeit as a period piece. The entire cast is wonderful -- including a zany Carol Kane who steals the show in her one scene.

KRNS, I get it. Slapstick and broad humor are not for everyone's taste. But for those who do enjoy those types of humor, they couldn't do better than this production of One Man, Two Guvnors.

Patrick, I second your recommendation of Harvey. I saw it a couple of weeks ago. Really wonderful. And Jim Parsons was terrific, as was almost every member of the cast.

Doug, I'm curious what you mean by "almost". The only negative performance comments I had read or heard referred to the daughter, Myrtle Mae. But I saw her understudy, who did a wonderful job with that normally very thankless and dippy role.

By the way, a couple of years ago I thought I had seen the definitive production of Harvey at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, but I think this one actually overtook even that one!