starrs

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?

HowardR

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.

starrs

Thanks HowardR.

skatedancer

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!

HowardR

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.

skatedancer

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!!

yk

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.

HowardR

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.

NeoPatrick

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!

ChgoGal

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.

skatedancer

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.).

skatedancer

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.....

Lookin_Glass

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

jgg

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.

HowardR

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.

starrs

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

KRNS

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

NeoPatrick

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.

doug_stallings

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.

NeoPatrick

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!