Once

We had a random Tuesday night open, so I got tickets for Once, a show based on a 2006 indie low budget film. Aaron was a little apprehensive about it since the music was sort of folksy and "Irish" but we went anyway. What a good story, and such talent on stage. All the actors play their own instruments, or even more than one(though not at the same time) Some of the songs were absolutely beautiful and Aaron left the theater mentioning that we should get the soundtrack! I think the lead girl will get nominated for a Tony as well as the show itself for best new musical. Not sure if either will win, but they'll probably be against Ghost and Nice Work if you Can Get It!

 We sat in the mezzanine, row G off to the left. It was behind the aisle but we had no obstructions. we definitely could've been closer, but I had a great seat. I looked at what the price normally is for these seats and on Tuesdays they're about $80, while we paid $40, so thank you TDF!

Previously at this theater we saw the Mountaintop and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson!

Newsies!

OMG I have been waiting to see this for forever! I tried to see it when it was at the Paper Mill Playhouse but they were sold out! I took my sister Kat to see it. Jack Kelly (Jeremy Jordan) was so hot! And he practically sang right to us! I have to see it again! I feel like I missed a lot! There was so much dancing and jumping. In fact, Kat said that every dance had at least 10 jumps, all being about 5 feet off the ground! And we fell in love with some of the ensemble dancers! Kinda stole the show in fact. We're big Newsies cult fans! (We didn't even know that Newsies was a cult movie, we just thought it was the best movie growing up)

I do have to say that I was a little upset about my seat. I paid full price to sit center section of the mezzanine, front row....and when we sat down there was a huge box (I'm sure it was a monitor for the actors, so that tells you for sure that Jeremy was singing to us and only us!) blocking the lower half of all actors downstage! Mother F***er! The box office guy should be required to tell you that it has a slight obstructed view. We made do anyway. There was no way I was skipping the show. So I didn't see pirouettes on newspapers. But I did see some hot dancing guys singing their hearts out. Would I buy those seats again?! No effin' way! I'd want to sit a little off center. I'm going to try and win lottery!

Book of Mormon

I guess I like this show, no? I took my folks to see this on Easter Sunday! Whole family loved it. Dad was laughing so hard he was crying....I saw him remove his glasses to wipe his eyes! Mom was laughing the whole time.....AND they left the theater singing songs. Later in the week, I put the soundtrack on in the car and they were repeating everything. 

I was nervous about our seats. I bought partial view seats in a box. We sat in seats 1-4 of box 2 on the right side. The only thing we missed was 1 Darth Vadar joke and a couple of reactions....hardly partial view. The lottery winners who sat in front of us had a much harder time seeing anything.

 I was a little disappointed that BOTH leads called out (it was a holiday after all) but both understudies did a great job. I think Price has a much harder job....C'mon Josh Gad, you're Jewish. You don't take Easter off!