#the ferryman broadway

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Paddy Considine dancing to The Rolling Stones “Street Fighting Man” song! 😍

It’s great and badass (at the same time)!  

I want so badly to see “The Ferryman” with the original cast!

Does anyone know:

1)  if there is any official recording of this play/musical? I’d like to buy an original DVD disc or an access to a digital copy!

2) if not, where I could watch it online?

It’s a shame that the play which received so many accolades is unavailable for those who haven't had a chance to see it at the theatre!

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THE NAME!

say my name, original broadway cast of beetlejuice / iwtv s1e6 / iwtv s1e7 / mitski - your best american girl / iwtv s2e7 / iwtv s2e6 / justin cronin, the ferryman

[pondslime]

Do you think that what Bo said about him and his brothers ending up in foster care was also a lie? I've seen some who think he wasn't lying about that but I don't think the timing and the codependency him and his brothers have adds up to them being separated for a bit, ya know? Sorry for bombarding you with a question but ugh there's just so much untouched lore potential I wanna screeeeeam

*cracking knuckles* oh baby u just opened the floodgates I am about to be SO fckn annoying

so personally, I very much believe that bo's spinning an ENTIRE crock of shit during that conversation w/carly and wade

something that I think we all need to highlight more is that the baby idiot himself has SUCH a flair for the dramatic. our favorite caveman is a chronic theater kid. like, okay acting 101? okay thespian? okay daytime soap OPERA??? the scene he sets for this fuckmurdermayhem is just...................SO grotesque and dramatic and entirely UNNECESSARY LMAO

he's a weirdo who has sequestered himself in a town full of corpses and u just KNOW the gaps between the wax nonsense are LONG and BORING and he's ANTSY

the whole time he's chasing carly thru town he's just. blissed out. goin hehehehehhehehehehe be vewwy vewwwy quiet!! we're huntin' wabbits!!! elmer fudd-mode FULLY engaged

he GRINS before he's shot by a fckin crossbow?????????? BABY???? WHAT ARE U DOING??????

he is truly on some other shit!! convinced his bargain bin broadway play will go off without a hitch and he will somehow??? be getting a standing ovation for his foolishness????

sighing DREAMILY

this is the most fun he's had in possibly months, and he's living la vida loca. he's that one tiktok of all the kids performing summer loving in the denny's. this is his golden globes. his bafta (big ass fucking truck absurdity). his academy award winning performance, starring his raging boner & very little foresight!!!!

I think there might be LIL grains of truth to his story, ofc. the best lies have small kernels of truth to them, and bo's lies seem to work the best when he adds those in (mentioning that he's close to the deceased to incur pity/getting nick to agree to follow him to a second location by mentioning that they might have gone up to the house)

but I do believe that most of it is complete bullshit lmao

there is absolutely no way in hell that those boys EVER got separated. to me!!! at least!! nope. they were in that miserable little house together the whole time. vincent and bo's interactions together speak to years of sibling tension and growing resentment. lester's inclusion in all of this w/his role of like. the ferryman to the fckin UNDERWORLD that is ambrose. is so v a marker of his attachment to his older brothers

they're all inextricably linked!!!!!!

bo 100% killed victor tho. u do not mime shooting urself in the head when discussing ur dad's death if u did not shoot him point blank range w/a smile on ur face. u simply do not. not entirely sure if he killed trudy. feel like that might've been vincent/a group job. or. pet theory. she DID just die of natural causes. or. other pet theory. she was actively participating/aware of the first couple murders. we'll never know but. huh

I also REALLY don't buy the "trudy got a cyst in her brain" stuff. I've played around w/it in a couple fics, but I v much think the probablity of it being a complete fabrication? oh 99.9%. most definitely. talking about ur mom getting strapped to the bed & screaming loud enough for the whole town to hear? hsdfjhfdsjhsdf BOY GOODBYE.

like????? that's SUCH a deranged thing to tell someone u just met. and it v much seems like smthn he tossed out to purposefully unnerve them. he didn't have to say that, but he DID. bc he loves the cat and mouse game. that's why he creeps on them @ the campsite. he's so deeply abnormal

it's all this weird sad little story that's designed to make u uncomfortable. also. sidenote......................in this version of the scene that he's set, he's the mourning parishioner sadly recounting a tale of woe that he's notably detached to. who is he in relation to the story he weaves? nobody. just an observer.

if life could be a fckin dream boseph!!!

BTW. he does this in the original script, but it's somehow EVEN weirder.

he is. and I CANNOT stress this enough. roleplaying as a kid in the neighborhood that trudy liked and would spoil.

???????????????????????????????????????????

babygirl is truly going thru it!!!!!! babygirl this is EMBARRASSING!!!!!! ur MOMMY ISSUES!!!!!!!!!!! BABYGIRL!!!!!!!!! they are SHOWING!!!!! they are STAPLED to ur forehead!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

he's so ABNORMAL!!!!!!! I need to make out w/him!!!!!!!! RN!!!!!!!!!!!

vincent waiting 2 hear what dumbass alternate reality bo has cooked up for this batch of tourists:

I always talk about how dumb bo is. and I mean every word of it. I really do. but I do think he's got a couple braincells.

I v much feel like he's v much a creature of habit. he's been doing this shebang for years n years and he knows how it goes. he gets his fuckin n suckin and vincent gets his wax sculptures. bada bing bada boom. showtime baby.

his "plan" is v much as solid as a plastic bag drifting thru the wind, wanting to start again. he is fr hinging this whole thing on a series of events, that, should they not happen, he has no alternative for. and he is so weird and so strange and cannot deviate from his script LEST he get pissymad and ruin everything. he's so dumb. I'm so v in love w/him.

TL; DR!!

I wrote this for my peabrain video essay script and it's all the above bullshit nonsense. but more coherent:

& an unrelated bit. bc it's still my favorite bit of the script & the only part I recorded a voice clip for sfjdhdfjshdfs

[droughtofapathy]

"Welcome to the Theatre": Diary of a Broadway Baby

Stereophonic

April 20, 2024 | Broadway | Golden Theatre | Evening | Play | Original | 3H 5M

With the season what it is so far, Stereophonic is a tall drink of water after a week in a desert. After the 3 hours I spent at Patriots, it was shaping up to be a long day. But this was what I needed to end the night. It's a show that makes you believe in good theatre again. The three-plus hour runtime (including intermission) never feels like a drag. Instead, this seven-actor cast is nothing short of transcendent as they bring the story of a rock & roll band recording an album to life, with all the emotional upheaval that environment entails. Each character is given a well-rounded personality, sometimes grating, sometimes infuriating, something wonderful, and nearly all go through a fleshed-out arc that feels real and raw. This isn't a show with something bigger to say about the world or politics or issues, and yet it speaks to intra and interpersonal conflict right to its core. Nothing happens. Everything happens. Told over the span of several years, all from within a recording studio, we're asked to step into the intimate environment of a recording booth and a band that is hanging by a thread and creating music gold.

I adore a long play. I'd sit for The Ferryman (3.5 hours) and both parts of Angels in America (~8ish hours) in one sitting if I could. But too many long plays in recent years have been a drag from start to finish. Stereophonic is well-paced, gorgeously crafted, constantly enthralling. I don't care about the 70s or that genre of music or Fleetwood Mac, the closest real-life comparison to the fictional band depicted here. But I care deeply about this story. And the score, oh my god, the score. This is not a musical. It's a straight "play with music," and it is the best damn score on Broadway right now (not that that's saying much...) I'd give it the Tony right now and just save us all some time.

The costumes need to be in my wardrobe right now. The set is excellent, if perhaps not fully thought-out for the people in the rear mezzanine who aren't able to see the studio due to the rake in the theatre. The sound design is finally something worth raving about. And the women are so well-written. The relationship they shared was one of my favorite parts of the play. Unlike most stories, they got to be deeply supportive of each other. They got to love and laugh and never once devolved into catty jealousy over men or fame or talent.

It just got extended to mid-August, and I need to go back after award season is over. What I want most of all is to sit cross-legged in the corner of that stage and just live in this play for an afternoon.

Verdict: You Can Pry This Show Out of My Cold Dead Hands

A Note on Ratings

Visual representation of me outside the theatre after this show: (this is for about two of you)

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Tom Glynn-Carney as Shane Corcoran in The Ferryman (West End to Broadway, 2017-2019)

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Broadway Theatres

There are currently 41 operating Broadway theatres, & I have been lucky enough to visit most of them. In descending order by most visited, here is a list of all the productions I’ve seen & the year I attended for each theatre.  

Belasco Theatre: Hedwig & the Angry Inch (2014) / Hedwig & the Angry Inch (2015) / Hedwig & the Angry Inch (2015) / Farinelli & the King (2018) / Network (2019)

Neil Simon Theatre: Jesus Christ Superstar (2012) / Big Fish (2013) / All the Way (2014) / Angels in America Part 1 (2018) / Angels in America Part 2 (2018) 

Richard Rodgers Theatre: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2013) / Romeo & Juliet (2013) / If/Then (2014) / Hamilton (2016) / Hamilton (2018)

Studio 54: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2013) / Cabaret (2014) / Cabaret (2015) / The Lifespan of a Fact (2019) / Pictures From Home (2023)

Longacre Theatre: First Date (2013) / Of Mice & Men (2014) / Allegiance (2016) / The Prom (2019) / Leopoldstadt (2023)   

Brooks Atkinson Theatre / Lena Horne Theatre: Peter & the Starcatcher (2013) / Spring Awakening (2016) / Spring Awakening (2016) / Waitress (2017) / SIX (2023)

Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre: It’s Only a Play (2015) / The Color Purple (2016) / The Ferryman (2018) / Company (2020) / Parade (2023)

Circle in the Square Theatre: Godspell (2012) / Fun Home (2016) / In Transit (2017) / Once on this Island (2018)

Booth Theatre: The Glass Menagerie (2013) / The Elephant Man (2015) / American Son (2019) / Kimberly Akimbo (2023)

Music Box Theatre: Pippin (2013) / The Heidi Chronicles (2015) / Dear Evan Hansen (2017) / Purlie Victorious (2023)

Broadhurst Theatre: The Front Page (2017) / Anastasia (2018) / Jagged Little Pill (2020) / A Beautiful Noise (2023)

Imperial Theatre: Les Miserables (2014) / Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (2017) / Carousel (2018) / Bad Cinderella (2023)

Broadway Theatre: Cinderella (2014) / Fiddler on the Roof (2016) / West Side Story (2020) / Here Lies Love (2023) 

Ethel Barrymore Theatre: The Bands Visit (2018) / The Inheritance Part 1 (2020) / The Inheritance Part 2 (2020) / Harmony (2023)

Al Hirschfeld Theatre: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (2011) / Kinky Boots (2013) / Moulin Rouge (2020) 

Nederlander Theatre: Newsies (2014) / Honeymoon in Vegas (2015) / Pretty Woman (2019)  

St. James Theatre: Bullets Over Broadway (2014) / Something Rotten! (2016) / Frozen (2018)

Shubert Theatre: Hello Dolly (2018) / To Kill a Mockingbird (2019) / Some Like it Hot (2023)

Winter Garden Theatre: School of Rock (2016) / Beetlejuice (2020) / Back to the Future (2023)

Lunt-Fontanne Theatre: The Addams Family (2011) / Finding Neverland (2016) / Tina - The Tina Turner Musical (2020)

Lyceum Theatre: The Realistic Jones (2014) / A View From the Bridge (2016)

Marquis Theatre: Wonderland (2011) / Evita (2012) 

American Airlines Theatre: Violet (2014) / On the Twentieth Century (2016)

Samuel J. Friedman Theatre: Casa Valentina (2014) / Constellations (2015)

Palace Theatre: Annie (2013) / Sunset Boulevard (2017)

Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre: The Bridges of Madison County (2014) / Come From Away (2018)

August Wilson Theatre: Mean Girls (2019) / Funny Girl (2023)

Stephen Sondheim Theatre: Anything Goes (2012) / & Juliet (2023)

Cort Theatre / James Earl Jones Theatre: The Cripple of Inishmaan (2014) / Gutenberg! The Musical (2023)

Hudson Theatre: Toured the theatre (2019) / Merrily We Roll Along (2023)

Eugene O'Neill Theatre: The Book of Mormon (2012)

Minskoff Theatre: Easter Bonnet Competition (2014)

Majestic Theatre: The Phantom of the Opera (2016)

New Amsterdam Theatre: Aladdin (2014)

Walter Kerr Theatre: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (2016)

Hayes Theatre: Lobby Hero (2018)

Gershwin Theatre: Wicked (2020)

John Golden Theatre: The Shark is Broken (2023)

Ambassador Theatre: Chicago (2023)

Lyric Theatre: N/A

Vivian Beaumont Theatre: N/A

Shows seen multiple times: Hedwig & the Angry Inch (3), Cabaret (2), Hamilton (2) & Spring Awakening (2).

108 shows, 1 event & 1 tour

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The Theatre Post

Of all the theatre I've seen since like 2016. Please ignore this, it's for my own memory and i'll be constantly updating it

2016/maybe pre-2016 idr:

Hamlet (p)

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (p)

The Book of Mormon (m, Touring Cast)

The Two Kids That Blow Shit Up (p)

Ragtime (m)

Barbecue (p)

Jitney (p)

Perecles (p)

Marisol (p)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (p, Touring Cast)

God's Ear (p)

2017:

The Kitchen (p)

Electra (p)

And (p, One-Act)

Godot Has Come (p, Japanese Touring Cast)

2018:

Bone Chiller (p)

Hamilton (m, Chicago)

The Miracle Worker (p)

Frankenstein - Playing with Fire (p)

A Prelude to Faust (p)

Home (p, One-Act)

Spring Awakening (m)

Twelfth Night (p)

2019:

Falsettos (m, Touring Cast)

Pippin (m)

Candide (m)

Metamorphoses (p)

Hello, Dolly! (m, Touring Cast)

Oklahoma! (m, Broadway)

Hadestown (m, Broadway)

Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (m, Off-Broadway)

The Ferryman (p, Broadway)

Burn This (p, Broadway)

Tootsie (m, Broadway)

What the Constitution Means to Me (p, Broadway)

Caught (p)

Sea Cabinet (m)

To Let Go And Fall (p)

Jefferson Township Sparkling Junior Talent Pageant (m)

The Rocky Horror Show (m)

Aubergine (p)

AMP (p, One-Act)

Frankenstein (p, One-Act)

2020:

Noura (p)

A.I.M. (d)

The Niceties (p, Livestream)

The Haunting of Lin Manuel Miranda (p, Livestream)

2021:

It's an Honorable Life (p)

A Murder is Announced (p)

2022:

La Boheme (m)

Redwood (p)

Monster Heart (p)

The Tempest (p)

A Raisin in the Sun (p)

Emma (p)

Cambodian Rock Band (m)

Sweat (p)

Merrily We Roll Along (m)

Doubt (p)

Victor Invictus (p, One-Act)

All Your White Darlings (p, One-Act)

Dead Mountain (p, One-Act)

Edgar Perry (p, One-Act)

2023 (was not a good year for theatre for me :/):

Next to Normal (m)

A Wrinkle in Time (p)

2024:

Purlie Victorious (p, Broadway)

Merrily We Roll Along (m, Broadway)

Here We Are (m, Off-Broadway)

Stones in His Pockets (p)

Sweeney Todd (m)

Richard II (p)

Henry IV (p)

Henry V (p)

Skeleton Crew (p)

The Spitfire Grill (m)

English (p)

Little Shop of Horrors (m)

The Lehman Trilogy (p)

Scotland, PA (m)

Holmes/Poirot (p)

Noises Off (p, Chicago)

Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (m, Chicago)

Evil Perfect (p, Chicago)

Assassins (m)

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Underwood Memorial Baptist Church.

Milwaukee WI.

HOW THEATER HAS CHANGED. Part One.

Robert M. Massimi.

When I look at theater today, I see a different era from what I remember of the 80's and 90's. Gone to a certain degree is the deep writing of yesteryear. Sure we had some great ones like "The Lehman Trilogy", "The Ferryman", "The Doctor" (currently at the Park Avenue Armory) and few others "Some Like it Hot" and "Kimberly Akimbo". But these are to few and far between for Broadway to be the behemoth it once was. In the 80's I could randomly go to a show and be wowed, but not today. It seems that writers and producers are more worried about putting out woke rather than good.

Off Broadway where you could once find really good works that were not big enough for Broadway, off off Broadway where you could find the hidden gems are gone as well. Today it is mostly about a liberal agenda that has taken the fun out of theater (not to mention the slobs that attend theater).

Let me give you a few examples:" Comeuppance", "Bernarda's Daughter," "Misty", "Camelot "at Lincoln Center," Bad Cinderella", "&Juliet", "New York, New York", "Passover". In these aforementioned shows, they all deal with race( with the exceptions of NY, NY and Camelot). "Comeuppance was poorly written and it solely attacks, the back the blue, whites, January 6th ( a huge favorite amongst the woke- never BLM nor ANTIFA burning cities down, though). The writing goes nowhere throughout the show and yet this is what is considered good theater today. "Misty" at Hudson Yards was another awful, horribly written play about the East End of London getting gentrified. The writer has his main character as a criminal and yet it is get whitey time. He argues, weakly, that the area was better when it was crime ridden, that white people have no business being there.

In "Bernarda's Daughter", it is Brooklyn ,NY. Again, the area is getting gentrified. The place is Flatbush, Brooklyn; a hot bed of crime. Once again, the area is getting over run with crime and yet, these girls complain that whites are moving in and making it nice.

In many of the musicals like NY, NY and Camelot, directors are bringing in diverse cast members that cannot handle the lead roles. this is exactly why both NY, NY and Camelot failed miserably. In" Shucked" you have a great comedy about a family in Nebraska. A really good play, however, you have the grandfather and cousin who are black. Regardless of your political beliefs, it just does not fit the audiences eye, it doesn't work. Like "Head Over Heels", the audience rejects it as not believable.

As far as off off Broadway, places like The Theater for the New City produce crap after crap. Politically leaning with radical shows, Theater for the New City is a pit of lousy writing. LA MAMA once a cutting edge theater company has also gone the way of lousy writing. Even in the 80's, LA MAMA was left leaning but the writing (mostly AGITPROP) was mostly good. Today, not so much. Climate change, LGBTQ runs this loony bin today and the shows aren't any fun to go too any more.

Theater in New York City needs to get back to quality. When A Dolls House becomes modern, it is time to rethink how we want to produce shows. If Broadway doesn't stop with the over abundance LGBTQ, the anti traditional theater, it may lose the base of its theater goers, and the young people, the wokesters alone cannot replace the old guard of theater lovers.

Britney Spears, Hamilton, Prima Facia, Sweeney Todd, Ben Platt, Studio 54, Nathan Lane, &Juliet, Hamilton, Shucked, Tony Awards, Kimberly Akimbo, New York, New York, New York City, Once Upon A One More Time, Funny Girl, Parade, Rock and Roll Man, Life of Pi.

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Still of Tom in The Ferryman- photographed by Joan Marcus | via bubbles2828

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Hadestown Leads the Pack at the 2019 Tony Awards

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"Welcome to the Theatre": Diary of a Broadway Baby

The Hills of California

September 20, 2024 | Broadway | Broadhurst Theatre | Evening | Play | Original | 2H 45M

I did like this play. Jez Butterworth has this great ability to craft a well-written slow burn play where the tension builds and builds and builds until the final thirty seconds just fucking floor you. Five years ago, I saw The Ferryman three times. It remains my absolute favorite straight play I've seen on Broadway. And so it was a tough act to follow. The Hills of California is no Ferryman, but it's exactly the kind of mature, intelligent theatre that I want. This play is full of flawed, high-strung, complex women, and the men are incidental. And god, that's good. And my, oh my, is it a set. The scenic design relies on a turntable to take us between the 70s and 50s in this same tired old inn and a family in shambles. I love an intimate family drama, and this one has that in spades, complete with a would-be show mom that may give soon-to-be-next-door-neighbor Rose Hovick a run for her money.

Ultimately, I think the tension doesn't built as effectively as Butterworth's past plays, and the pay-off feels less earned, however evocative it did end up being. And a lot of that hinges on the act three character, Joan, who is a Godot who does show up. Joan is a little weak and one-dimensional, but she's almost there. But I did like the play. And those final thirty seconds didn't take me out like Ferryman, but they still packed a wallop.

Verdict: A Lovely Night

A Note on Ratings

[greatwhite-way]

does anyone have the ferryman (bway 2019) and/or king lear (bway 2019) bootleg? i'm literally willing to trade everything i have and my soul for these two plays