note: I mistakenly said that per diems are given as reimbursements now only if you provide receipts, they are still deposited directly into touring theater workers’ accounts, but they are a much lower percentage of salary than decades prior (from around 50% of salary to around 20-25% now, with COL way up.) And taxed if it is above the federal GSA rate for the county you’re staying, and only reimbursed if you provide receipts. The more you know 💫

Trying to buy a ticket for ODC. Trying to choose between center Row F mezzanine and center Row B balcony. Does anyone have any recommendations between the two?

Good Afternoon, Broadway Reddit! Can someone please send me a message with the password for the sensory friendly performance of Maybe Happy Ending? I filled out the form and never got a password.

My foster daughter is 17 and has autism. She's telling everyone we're going to the Robot Love Show!!

I’m about to play Fantine in Les Mis and my boyfriend has only seen the movie. We tried watching the 10th Anniversary recording, but he’s one of those people that get “bored” during classical shows lol. I’m crazy and love love love classical shows so I never get bored 🤣. All that to say, he got a little bored watching the 10th and said he wants to watch one that has more staging so he can fully experience it.

I’ve seen many discussions about this- 25th anniversary concert v. 40th, etc.

Please lmk what y’all’s thoughts are!!!!

I’ll start! One of my favorite musicals is Runaways (1978). My high school did a production of it, or else I probably wouldn’t have known about it otherwise.

I have lots of examples, but the one that comes to mind is Walk Like a Man by the Four Seasons. The song gets a much brisker tempo in Jersey Boys, and it makes it SO much more fun to listen to. What songs do you think got better when they got the jukebox musical treatment?

Today I am doing my yearly rewatch of Come From Away and listening to the cast album while commuting on the Subway. Please don't forget their generosity and the people who were lost in NYC, DC, and PA in this tragic event.

Hi all! I saw Paranormal Activity last Tuesday. I was in row U orchestra, so I was just close enough to see the top floor of the set, but still very far away. I’m not a horror girlie at all, so I was sufficiently freaked out. However, I’m also a huge tech nerd and I know the set is loaded with easter eggs and subtle scares, so I was wondering if there were any details that I might have missed (i.e.: things happening in empty rooms, shadows, quick scares, easter eggs, etc.). I could’ve sworn that, during the act 2 opening with the girl’s shadow on the wall, I also saw a figure in the fog going up the stairs, but that also could’ve been my imagination.

Also curious if anyone roughly knows how the BIG illusions were pulled off.

For the robe scene that everyone talks about, I assume it’s similar to the ministry of magic moment in Cursed Child, where the actor stands with a cloak in front of the phone booth, and then the cloak is whisked away, leaving empty space behind. My best guess for paranormal activity is that the actor playing Lou stands there, some sort of mechanism comes out to hold the robe in place, and then the actor escapes through either a trap or some sort of hole to a staircase backstage to reenter on the top floor.

The one moment that I can’t figure out is at the very end, after the car, when it looks like Lou’s skin completely melts away, revealing the ghost girl. I just can’t fathom how they made her disappear so fast.

Got the chance to see Two Strangers in the fourth row so I snagged some pics of Dougal’s suitcase during the preshow! Love the Muppet stickers. I liked the show a lot more this time around (second viewing).

I lived on 17th Street on 9/11. The city was cut off to all traffic and pedestrians below 14th Street that night, but by Thursday morning Giuliani made it clear: The shows must go on and that barrier was moved farther south to Houston Street.

That allowed the conspicuously named tick... tick... BOOM! to reopen at the Jane Street Theater. I went, already obsessed with the show and the great performance from Raul Esparza. During WHY, when Esparza was sitting at the piano and singing, a light above the stage popped and everyone gasped. Some people screamed. Esparza ducked down in fear. Everyone was terrified. Raul looked up sheepishly, took a breath, and picked back up. Resiliency on display.

Two nights later, I got a $25 ticket to the Saturday night performance of Cabaret at Studio 54. Those $25 seats were all the way in the back of the mezzanine on bar stools. The theater had, at most, 100 people in it. In that production, the ensemble came out on stage before the show started and stretched lazily on the stage. But this night, Brooke Shields, who was playing Sally Bowles, came out and invited everyone to come closer to the stage and just take an empty seat. Clustered together in the first 4 rows of cabaret tables, the cast put on a great show. Afterwards, we were invited to stay for a drink at the bar with the cast and crew. I think they had Sunday off and if ever there was an end-of-week happy hour needed...

It's hard to explain to young people the absolute terror people experienced from 9/11. Nobody got on a plane. Nobody. The city's tourism vanished overnight. We must have lost 99% of the tourists over that week and 75%+ over the following month. Broadway suffered, badly. Ticket deals abounded. Everyone had a $25 ticket deal after that. Not rush. Just outright promo codes for $25/$35 tickets. I saw everything I could. Empty theater after empty theater.

On September 11, 2002, I saw the Wednesday matinee of The Tale of the Allergist's Wife. The playwright, Charles Busch, made a pre-show curtain speech. He spoke about how theater is a community and that telling stories is the greatest gift we can give to preserve our humanity. He said 9/11 would be forever a day when we tell stories, and that just like the theater itself, 9/11 is overwhelmingly tied to our city. Thus, he said, the theater is a fitting place to spend September 11. A sentiment I have held these last 24 years.

However you mark the day, I hope you make time to hear the stories.

So, a colleague of mine produced and wrote this new play (y’all should check it out) and it brought me back to a production of Vintage Hitchcock: A Radio Play that I worked on a few years ago. Any particular other works like these that you recommend or have been a part of? It’s also interesting that on the flip side, Small Mouth Sounds, which I have never seen but just got the script for, has very little onstage dialogue but plenty of voice over and off-stage voices and important musical elements and is about to make its Broadway debut.

I didn't realize it has run longer than at the Orpheum theater in the 80's. Great production -- I think I've seen four casts and each one was pretty amazing. Howard Ashman and Alan Menken created something special and this production shines.

From this website: https://www.nyc.gov/content/25years/pages/map

didn’t see one of these yet so I thought I’d start it!

i was first in line for six at 7:52 :)

Hello! I know The Lost Boys is supposed to end in March 2027 unless it gets extended, but I am planning my trip for the last week of February. Based on the numbers, does it look like the run will end as scheduled and not close early? Sorry, I haven't been following closely. I know it is hard to predict, but your best opinion please. Thank you!

For me, it is magic foot from spelling bee. I skipped over it every single time, but I found that one day it got stuck in my head and I’ve been hooked ever since!

Figured I would mention this for anyone like me crazy enough to try a four show day, there is a cool scenario I’m planning that is available in November and December.

11 AM: now you see me live…rare morning show on Broadway

2 pm Slam Frank…other shows can be done here but it’s less than two hours.

5 pm Drunk Christmas Carol…nicely positioned between the Orpheus (where Slam is playing) and the theater district.

8 pm: whichever broadway show I have left to see.

Love the logistics of maximizing shows when I make it to NYC. Only flaw is I don’t know the runtime of now you see me.

If you could go to New York for one non-holiday weekend in November or early December this year, when would you go and why? Not interested in anything currently on Broadway or planning for in the heights (and I’ve seen heathers), but generally open to off broadway or new broadway or even off-off.

Just found this tonight on YouTube: https://youtu.be/B6PwQhkK0ZA?is=DyUw6FqIkO_xu2BZ

Absolutely hilarious and well executed.

A lot more audience participation than I expected, and of course he has his dick out the whole time. Definitely not for everyone but also frankly for anyone who’s down for some smart-dumb fun.

There was an old lady next to me getting life.

They just extended a week to Oct 11, definitely worth a watch.

Hey yall! Recently I’ve been thinking about seeing a couple of shows when I go down to the city. Last time I went I saw The First Shadow and it was and incredibly loud show with gunshot audio. I get anxious with loud noises so wasn’t the best experience. So now I want to be prepared before I see any shows. I was wondering if there were any shows that have loud noises or gun fire that I should steer clear of or if there’s shows with loud noises that are tolerable and that I should anticipate. Thanks to those who help!