Peter and the Starcatcher

 Wow, what an amazing show. Such creativity! Everyone on stage pulled their own weight! It's nominated for 10 tonys this year! Great job, PatSC! I went with Todd and he won lottery tickets ($27) to sit in the orchestra row L! They were off to the side, but really we didn't miss a thing! This show made me laugh out loud, ooh and aah over what "junk" they were using to build the scene, and cry over what was happening in their world. I sure hope it wins best play. It's like nothing else on Broadway right how.

 As I said, we sat in row L, house left. It was great! I'd definitely try to win lottery again as the deal you're making it unbeatable!

Christian Borle is in this as Black Stache, later known as Captain Hook....(not even in this show might I add) and he was FABULOUS! I think he has a great chance of winning. Seriously, all around great performances!

Leap of Faith

I was super excited to see this because the Tony nominees were just released and it got a nom for best new musical. However, after purchasing the tickets, I heard from a lot of friends that they felt it was a waste of a nomination. I found out that it opened on the last day for Tony noms to be valid. (cutting it kind of close I think) When asked by Aaron of how long the show would be I found out that it was already closing. WHAT?! That means it will be a nominee and only have had 24 preview performances and 20 regular performances. Something does sound right there. To me, it DOES sound like a waste of a nomination. It won't win due to the fact that no one can see it as it will be closed.

 We had great seats, row F in the orchestra off to the side. Nothing was partial view. Previous to this show, we saw American Idiot, Gypsy (Patti LuPone) and The Producers (7 times!) I love this theater!

The gospel singers really brought it. They had so much passion and the songs were dynamite. The parts of the show that lagged were the musical theater portions. Raul Esparza was phenomenal! The little boy in the show may very well be the worst actor I've seen in some time!

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!

Seminar

What a fresh breath of air, seeing this show. Witty, funny, and sharp. We went because Aaron wanted to see Alan Rickman (he's leaving the show and being replaced by Jeff Goldblum). He was flawless. I can't imagine seeing it with anyone else. The show is about 4 writers who pay a professional writer for a 10 week seminar in hopes of becoming better writers. One is played by Jerry O'Connell. I was impressed with him, seeing as I didn't know it was him until after the show at dinner. It's nice to see a movie/tv actor not relying on his fame to push through a show. Definitely check this one out!
We sat in the last row of the orchestra, but it was not an issue as it was a play and there was absolutely nothing in the fly space. Previously, I've seen The Normal Heart and Avenue Q here. It's a much smaller house!

The Road to Mecca

Holy shitballs, was this play ever boring. I got an email from hiptix saying that they were giving us a discount (on top of my already huge discount mind you) and giving us all 2 tickets for the price of one....tickets were $20 BEFORE the sale, so Aaron and I saw the show for $24 total! Is that even possible?! A broadway show for $10 each?!? Something is wrong here....what is it? Oh yeah, the show sucks. It was so tired and was about nothing. The man next to Aaron fell asleep around the 15 minute mark, and he truly was the lucky one. The house was empty, so were told BEFORE the curtain rose that we could move up....we sat 3rd row mezzanine. Didn't seem to matter though, as I couldn't even figure out what the show was even about. I was so tempted to leave at intermission, but stayed because "hey, why not?"

I think the actors involved were talented but it didn't make a difference because the writing was boring. After seeing the show, Aaron turned to me and said that we weren't allowed to see anymore plays unless they were comedic or had great buzz around them. Guess we're going to be seeing more musicals.

Previous to this show, we saw Importance of Being Earnest here. Nice theater!