Matt has written an extensive post summarizing our theater experiences this past season, including rankings of his favorite to least favorite shows in each category. We’re able to see so many shows because we see a lot of stuff cheaply, through TDF or Play-by-Play.
We have some disagreements. For instance, I found The Story of My Life incredibly treacly and the characters irritating. I can’t listen to the cast album because the songs drive me nuts. Listening to them can give you diabetes.
And everyone seems to like Rock of Ages, but for me it was too loud and gave me a splitting headache. Looking back, it was an entertaining enough show, but I couldn’t deal with the volume level. Also, I was in a bad mood that day.
But I agree with Matt that Next to Normal is amazing and the best new musical of the season. It’s heart-wrenching and depressing yet oddly uplifting, and the music absolutely rocks.
On to the Tonys!
hope you read the back of your program on N2N… i should be there under assistant set designer (someone told me it was misspelled?)…
This is an imposition, but I just started looking over your blog and expect I’ll be reading a whole lot more. I have just started writing one myself, rum-and-coca-cola.blogspot.com and am still a bit unclear upon the mores and customs of the tribe. I’d like to add the Tinman to my blog list, but have some niggling sense that that shouldn’t be done without permission.
Also, it is obvious that we have much in common, including an undue interest in the theatre. I’ve never heard of play-by-play before reading this. Can you point me to anything that shows the kids of shows they produce tickets for?
Unconditional thanks for the blog, conditional thanks for the information.
Hi Rick, welcome, and thanks for stopping by!
Actually, you don’t need permission at all to link to someone else’s blog — on the contrary, I think most bloggers are flattered when someone links to them.
Unfortunately, I’m not sure where to find a list of shows that Play-by-Play makes available…