Mom and son Broadway show?

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My DD just got back from her high school’s theater trip to NYC and she reported that all of the kids (about 40 of them) LOVED Ragtime.

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Anonymous wrote:We are a big broadway family (also not fans of [b]Hadestown). I would say try The Outsiders or The Lost Boys with a 19 year old male.

Interesting! Do you think it’s because the music is different than other shows?

I think that’s part of it, and also we weren’t expecting it to be… bluegrass? Can’t think of a good word. We also didn’t like that there was very little dialogue and it was long. That said, we didn’t hate it- it just wasn’t what we were expecting for Greek mythology. We did also see Six during the same trip and everyone liked Six a lot better, except my teen son who liked Hadestown better (but I wouldn’t say he loved either of the m).

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Anonymous wrote:We are a big broadway family (also not fans of [b]Hadestown). I would say try The Outsiders or The Lost Boys with a 19 year old male.

Interesting! Do you think it’s because the music is different than other shows?

I think that’s part of it, and also we weren’t expecting it to be… bluegrass? Can’t think of a good word. We also didn’t like that there was very little dialogue and it was long. That said, we didn’t hate it- it just wasn’t what we were expecting for Greek mythology. We did also see Six during the same trip and everyone liked Six a lot better, except my teen son who liked Hadestown better (but I wouldn’t say he loved either of the m).

I’d call it more blues/jazz. I think that’s why I liked it so much — not the typical Broadway sound.

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Anonymous wrote:We are a big broadway family (also not fans of [b]Hadestown). I would say try The Outsiders or The Lost Boys with a 19 year old male.

Interesting! Do you think it’s because the music is different than other shows?

I think that’s part of it, and also we weren’t expecting it to be… bluegrass? Can’t think of a good word. We also didn’t like that there was very little dialogue and it was long. That said, we didn’t hate it- it just wasn’t what we were expecting for Greek mythology. We did also see Six during the same trip and everyone liked Six a lot better, except my teen son who liked Hadestown better (but I wouldn’t say he loved either of the m).

You are certainly entitled to not enjoy Hadestown but your comment does make me wonder whether Hadestown or Six is “closer” to its source material. 😄

[Anonymous]

The Play That Goes Wrong is hilarious, slapstick, audience-involved comedy. Saw it with my 20-year-old nephew and he loved it. The physical comedy had us on the edges of our seats. Very well-staged.

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Anonymous wrote:The Play That Goes Wrong is hilarious, slapstick, audience-involved comedy. Saw it with my 20-year-old nephew and he loved it. The physical comedy had us on the edges of our seats. Very well-staged.

A good example of different tastes. I didn't hate this play but I wouldn't actually recommend it to anyone really. But I think slapstick is a good description and you can probably figure out if you might like it.

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Anonymous wrote:The Play That Goes Wrong is hilarious, slapstick, audience-involved comedy. Saw it with my 20-year-old nephew and he loved it. The physical comedy had us on the edges of our seats. Very well-staged.

A good example of different tastes. I didn't hate this play but I wouldn't actually recommend it to anyone really. But I think slapstick is a good description and you can probably figure out if you might like it.

DP, I recommended this earlier also. I’m not a fan of slapstick but thought this was cleverly done. My son loved it and it probably appeals more to boys.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing is funnier than the Book of Mormon, if you can handle that.

+1

I'm one of the Mormons who still doesn't understand how normal people think it's OK to support mocking someone's religion for fun. But knock yourselves out.

Most religious beliefs are worthy of mockery.

Agreed...I found this in a random article. I took my teen boys to Book of Mormon and they thought it was hilarious. The foreign stuff is a lot about colonialist privilege, not really about Mormonism. It could be redone to be about Evangelical missionaries pretty easily.

"Although it was written to poke fun at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Stone reiterated that the "Book of Mormon" was not meant to just mock Mormonism, but religion in general, calling his show, "an atheist's love letter to religion."

"Anybody's religion, to an outsider, it's just as goofy," he said. "I don't think either of us think Mormonism is any goofy-ier than Hinduism or Christianity, from an outsider's point of view.""

But it's not "Book of Veda" and FYI - we're Christian. Again, I think it says a lot about people who want to support this with their $$.

Mormons have no trouble sending their young people on “missions” to intrude on other people’s lives and to try to convert people who already have their own deeply held faiths and cultures and traditions. I find that more offensive and obnoxious than any musical or artistic work ever could be. If you are going to put yourself out there like that and get up in other peoples’ business and try to foist your (very odd and illogical) beliefs on others, don’t cry when they mock you.