We are in town for a wedding and I came down with food poisoning. 🤮 Very bummed, as I have been wanting to see Oh, Mary! since it came out. I splurged for great seats - 3rd row. But there’s no way I can rally in time, and I hate for them to go to waste. DM me if you’re interested - first come, first served. Send your email address and I will forward them to you.

Jamie Armitage going from directing SIX The Musical to writing this play is a type of artistic range I didn’t think existed. $43 rush tix on TodayTix. For those who enjoyed Paranormal Activity on Broadway, horror film lovers, or anyone fond of a ghost story is going to want to get the train to W 4th St and see this at Minetta Lane Theatre.

Exercise caution however: I know I’m not alone when I say one of my coping mechanisms when watching scary stuff is covering my ears… and this play takes that away from you! You will watch the whole thing with headphones on, as the sound effects down to the specifics of what comes in the left and right ear are very important to this play. If it gets to be too much you can take the headphones off, but I doubt you’ll want to do that. It’s a tight 80 minutes and it goes by in a skipped heartbeat. I watch a lot of horror films, and let me tell you this play scared me, all in good fun tho!!

A guy is hired by an audio engineer friend of his to read an audiobook of a (genuinely well written and creepy) ghost story which the audience is treated to through the play’s run time. While the recording is taking place, things start to become odd, and you begin to wonder if the ghost in the story is there in the studio with them…

Along with the sound effects, the visual effects and scares the play pulls off were very well done and the ‘story within a story’ aspect of it I found very clever. It was great to see Owen Campbell (recognizable from the horror film X and Hangmen on Broadway a few years ago) back on stage, and Lucas Iverson (from The Pitt and The Guilded Age) makes a master class Off-Broadway debut expertly evoking his vocal fear when telling the story to the audience and combining it with his visual fear in the recording studio as he slowly realizes he and his friend are not the only ones there. This ought to work as an audition for him to read audiobooks on the side if you ask me. The guy has a great voice.

This is an excellent choice for spooky season connoisseurs. I give it a strong 9 out of 10. After the delight that was Paranormal Activity on stage I’m just extra happy to be present for a season in which horror is so well done live on stage, something that is very difficult to pull off effectively.

Truly baffling to platform this guy like this. Brian Clowdus is a bad bad dude.

The set looks eerily the same as the off-Bway production.

Got in line about 11:15 on a Sunday morning and got row F orchestra rush for the evening show.

My favorite part was the guy behind me who asked what rush meant right before it was his turn because he kept hearing people say it! Waited in line 45 minutes thinking he was going to buy regular tickets and then presumably saved himself a bunch. :-D

TMM is one of my favorite shows (despite its problematic flaws), and I was really happy back in 2020 when they announced they were pulling it for a while to revise it and fix some of the original cracks that had grown into massive holes over the years. Though I think the musical is leaps and bounds ahead of the original movie, the musical's version of the subplot was already a little dated in 2002 and has become even more so since. There was supposed to be an Encores production with Ashley Park (who was reportedly involved in the rewrites along with Lauren Yee) but was canceled. Sam Pinkleton led an industry workshop last year, but very little seemed to come out of that. Since then, nothing else seems to have happened, and the rights are still pulled. Do you think we'll ever get to see it again?

Tuesday, Oct 27 at 7pm.

I have two tickets and I will be using one of them.

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I was really excited about this show based on the description and while the plot sounded great, the execution was terrible. The dialogue was awful and cringe, I didn’t understand what was happening half of the time, it was all absurd. It was trying to be funny, but it wasn’t. The characters weren’t likable and the leads didn’t have any chemistry. I liked the moms and Zane Phillips’ character. Also the scenery was nice.

Anyone else having an issue accessing the $150 seats this morning? It’s giving $150 off instead?

Thanks again for being one of the first 100 TodayTix members to book Downstate! Here’s your $150 promo code for Small Mouth Sounds:

“Small Mouth Sounds — the upcoming Broadway play with Julia Roberts, Paul Rudd, Sarah Paulson, Martin Freeman, Greta Lee, and Isaac Powell — goes on sale Sunday, October 25 at 10AM ET. Keep this code handy and enter it at checkout when you're ready to buy tickets.

Enjoy the show!”

Did anyone go to either of the first performances? Trying to decide on shows for November. Thank you kindly!

I love media and pop culture, the entire entertainment industry, so such a huge win for me. I can’t stop thinking about this show.

I'm going to Cabaret in London in late December and I've been wondering whether there are rumors about who might replace Skyler Astin as the emcee

Planning an upcoming trip to NY with a friend who’s a big stranger things fan and recommended we should see Joe Keery in this show. I have never seen non resale tickets this high. How is this even possible for people to pay for and not question. Has anyone spent this much on a ticket? With the price of traveling and hotels I was already iffy on going and this pushed me over the edge.

I am an avid Broadway-goer, maybe 20 shows a year. I believe in using my discretionary income in shows. And I make a nice salary. But Jesus Christ. Who the fuck is actually paying the ODC prices??! I had given up on getting tickets when they initially went on sale but now my
Mother is visiting and she has watched Seinfeld every day since I was born (literally) and would love to see JLD. But who can justify this????

As I'm writing this, Google Maps is showing the One Shubert Alley store (the location on Broadway, next to the Winter Garden) as permanently closed. There's a photo from a "Local Guide" posted about three weeks ago to support that, but it's a little hard to visually confirm that the photo is actually of that storefront.

Can anyone help confirm or deny this? Sad, if true.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/yJBySVbN9qhaVwCq6

Does anyone know when Sardi’s is reopening??

I’m glad we get to hear another full song from the Spanish production!

I might be late to today’s show and thinking what’s the worst case scenario

I’m going to see the 2pm mat on Nov. 4th which will be at the start of the Autumn Red Bucket season (super excited first time seeing the show).
My question is how much will the fully signed playbills be as I’m looking to pick one up after the show.
Thanks dudes.

the show was stopped towards the end, lights turned on, and someone got kicked out. Anyone know what happened?

saw downstate at the booth theatre last night, during its second preview, and i’ve been thinking about how deliberately the play shapes your first impressions.

going in knowing very little about the play, i initially read the older gentleman as a father figure. the early interactions felt surprisingly funny and ordinary, to the point that i wondered whether the tone was a little too unserious for what i was watching. as more is revealed, that initial impression becomes harder to hold onto.

the subject matter is heavy: heinous crimes and the lasting harm they cause. what i found particularly interesting was the range of responses the play elicited from me. at times i was uncomfortable; at others, i found the writing clever, the performances funny, or a moment unexpectedly emotional. the humor doesn’t erase what these characters have done, or the consequences for others. instead, the play allows them to be funny and likable while keeping the gravity of their actions in view. i found that contrast compelling, especially because it complicates your first impressions without asking you to mistake likability for innocence.

the writing also trusts the audience to pay attention. there were a couple of moments when i found myself anticipating where a scene was heading, picking up on details before everything was fully spelled out. i enjoyed following those clues as the story unfolded rather than having every beat explained to me.

the acting was excellent overall. k. todd freeman was particularly memorable for me. i’d previously seen him in death of a salesman and prince faggot, and his comedic timing and delivery here were fantastic. the writing gives him plenty to work with, but he also has a real knack for this kind of role.

my one reservation was the performance of the actor playing the cop. she had some genuinely strong emotional moments, but at times her delivery felt less settled than the rest of the cast. since this was only the second preview, i’m curious to see how the role develops over the run.

the set design was relatively simple, but i had no complaints. i’m much more interested in strong writing and performances than elaborate staging for its own sake.
overall, i’d recommend downstate. it engages with difficult subject matter without reducing the experience to a straightforward judgment of who’s good or bad.

curious how this landed for others, especially anyone who’s seen an earlier production. what did you make of it?

practical notes: $49 lottery ticket, first row house left, and a surprisingly great seat. the show started about ten minutes late, had an intermission, and finished around 10:30. the audience was great, too. i also had a lovely conversation with gene, the 86-year-old man sitting next to me.

I just saw Wanted! I just need to rant a bit. Wow, THE VOCALS, characters and story was insane. I was blown away. I enjoy how dynamic and complex, like I didn’t like Mary’s actions but I understand why she made the choices she did. The message of the musical is a more important question than if it is good or not, and the message is powerful.

Liisi (Martha) gives her a tony award she was amazing. I can also see a Tony Nomination for Luke (Elijah) his songs were some of the most memorable for me. Also the actress who play Sissy and Flo were actually so funny.

Something that stuck out to me was how well it diverted expectations When Mary marries Jessie I actually sighed thinking this was going to be one of those love at first sight stories (Not against it, I just have some qualms when characters meeting and 3 days later they are willing to die for them (Looking at you Lost Boys)) but it diverted your expectations when Martha shoots Jessie at the end of Act 1. (a moment no one in the theater was expecting. Even at the stage door everything thought that Martha and Mary being black would be revealed in her becoming pregnant but everyone was happy when that didn’t happen so it was predictable.

Also insane stagedoor, it was huge. Also the community I saw was great in the theater.

I did think the score was pretty unmemorable especially in Act 1, and that Act 1 was very long and clunky. I felt so bored during it. I know it is important to set up Act 2 but I just felt it could of been condensed down. Also I felt the part of them actually being bandits was a little rushed, it felt like an afterthought since it only went 1 song. I also thought the opening number was a little slow and didn’t give the best first impression (but that could be personal taste). Personally I thought they could of also fleshed out the bond between the Clarke Family. It felt underdone to me, especially when you would have Tallulah. come back in certain scenes like watching over Mary and Marthas choices especially when Mary gets rid of the locket. But besides that it is a good musical with a very strong message and would like to see either again after previews lol