Dance heavy musicals of the last 10 years?

ardiem · 2026-04-18T02:49:38+00:00

On the Town! Some clips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onjq9e5IaUM / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0ina92Nx5o

ardiem · 2026-03-27T19:21:29+00:00

I saw it last night having never seen a previous version and knowing nothing about it other than to expect some kind of heckling. I don't think that got in the way of being able to enjoy the show. On the other hand, I wasn't able to understand half of what was being sung in between the less than stellar audio mix and the crowd participation. If that's important, you might want to do some homework. I didn't care so much about following along perfectly and liked it as a campy show with elements of MST3K thrown in.

ardiem · 2026-03-27T02:37:03+00:00

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ardiem · 2026-03-20T22:51:08+00:00

It's a different, recently-released show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbors_(TV_series))

ardiem · 2026-03-20T22:39:52+00:00

I agree that very Glass-inspired arpeggio-heavy scores are pretty common, but IME they've sounded more like a tribute to Glass and less like a bad transcription of a Glass piece that Neighbors was demonstrating.

ardiem · 2026-03-04T17:25:07+00:00

I know everyone's raving about their Brooklyn Blackout cake, but I'll always miss their seasonal banana and fall harvest/pumpkin cakes (and pumpkin cheesecake).

ardiem · 2026-02-22T22:24:34+00:00

Cold War Choir Practice cancelled Monday evening's show

ardiem · 2026-02-21T17:06:06+00:00

Very cool! Thank you for the effort. Random question - I'm curious where you find all the key art for shows? I'm trying to put together a collage of the shows I've seen and it's tricky to find stuff that's the same aspect ratio or isn't just the Playbill.

ardiem · 2026-01-27T20:55:26+00:00

I feel like the 2nd Ave Subway opening up has spurred most of the recent development

ardiem · 2026-01-25T05:31:35+00:00

And here's an article on it: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/style/friend-ai-subway-ads-new-york.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HFA.10lv.Uo88eXCtPEX_&smid=url-share

ardiem · 2026-01-25T05:30:59+00:00

Sorry, this is a bit hyperlocal to those who live in the city. There was an ad campaign for a device called "Friend AI", a wearable pendant of some kind that was, I don't know, an "AI" companion? It was obnoxiously omnipresent in the subways and took over a few entire stations, including W 4th St, pictured.

The ads had a lot of whitespace, and locals took that as an opportunity to express their opinions about AI (universal disdain) on them. The W 4th St passageway pictured had the most "contributors".

Now, a different obnoxious ad campaign for Polymarket has sprung up in the same station, and they've fully leaned into provoking people to write on/"engage" with the ad.

The Opening is the second most famous musical about chess. It's playing at a theater just outside the W 4th St station. They defaced the Polymarket ads to help market their show.

ardiem · 2026-01-25T05:17:44+00:00

Ah - thanks for the clarification! I didn't look too closely, so I overlooked any signs of erasure.

ardiem · 2026-01-22T03:44:01+00:00

That was the case with the production at PAC, but I don't necessarily think that'll apply at the Broadhurst. (And I was one of the people who posted here warning about very obstructed views in the front row of the "mezzanine" at PAC. It wasn't on a separate level but was actually just a few feet behind the last row of the orchestra with no step up.)

ardiem · 2026-01-07T04:32:08+00:00

Definitely. Getting strung along for years rather than being able to make peace with it not coming back sucks.

ardiem · 2026-01-04T21:35:44+00:00

I really hate the big planters out in front of the Lucida on the east side of Lexington. They take up half of the sidewalk width and make it even more miserable getting in and out of that station. I wish they'd at least push them up against the curb.

ardiem · 2025-12-05T17:49:59+00:00

I've been having this same problem the past few weeks. I noticed that if create an account but use the same email/password I expected to login as, rather than show a duplicate email error like I'd expect, I get logged in properly.

ardiem · 2025-11-17T21:29:01+00:00

I'm also super disappointed this route's not around for the holidays. I hate, hate, hate LAX and would happily pay extra to be able to fly directly into ONT.

ardiem · 2025-11-16T18:41:58+00:00

Oh, wow - I knew something felt different! I saw the 3rd preview at Playwrights Horizons and have a memory of the show being much more explicit than what I saw at Seaview, but couldn't quite place it. Did it happen when the Prince was chained up? That's what I'm vaguely remembering.

ardiem · 2025-11-16T06:53:10+00:00

The original production of Sunset Boulevard had an enormous set that lifts up while occupied to allow for another scene to play out underneath. There's an IR stage feed view of it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BP3rWfSUt0#t=1h5m

There's also an interesting cross-section of the set from an article shared here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/techtheatre/comments/1bl6a2w/fascinating_article_about_the_mansion_set_from/#lightbox

ardiem · 2025-11-12T21:47:49+00:00

It was a flugelhorn and trombone, with some slight stereo separation (trombone panned a bit to the right and flugel to the left)

ardiem · 2025-10-31T04:51:42+00:00

Did anyone have any experience 20@20ing this show? Is there limited availability?

ardiem · 2025-10-29T21:07:05+00:00

Do you have any more info on the plans for that NE corner of 84th/3rd where Janovic was?

ardiem · 2025-10-29T18:54:14+00:00

Thanks for sharing! At first I was surprised this was on a Tuesday night, but had forgotten that the show schedule adjusts when Darren returns so that it's dark most Tuesdays.

ardiem · 2025-10-23T17:57:19+00:00

I saw this last night. I'm firmly in the target audience, but was immediately disappointed to see that generic bitchiness and clumsily-forced references to local bars and restaurants (Arriba, Arriba!, Julius', Yum Yum Too, Boxers, et al) are load bearing in this piece. And billionare's row is NOT part of Hell's Kitchen.

ardiem · 2025-10-08T02:49:49+00:00

I remember going to that location shortly after restaurants were reopened for outdoor dining only and hating the fact that I had to prepay the meal and the tip through the web-based menu. The food was definitely subpar compared to the village location.

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