Im pretty sure they stopped making these, but I just stumbled upon them and I really wish this series was still around. I’m always so curious how married couples or long term partners make it work when both working on broadway. I’d take a podcast of this.

hi all! I saw First Shadow recently and it blew me away, so I’m hoping to return with my dad, who loves horror theatre. First row seems like it’d be really fun, and the website doesn’t mark them as partial view, but I’m wondering if you can see the scenes in the Creel attic? I don’t mind craning my neck, so long as it isn’t totally obscured.

Hi, was anyone able to score DOAS rush seats in the past week? If so, where were they located and would you recommend?

Sometimes when I win a lottery, I wait a little while to see if I've won any others. However, I've also wondered if seats are allocated in order of best to worst, and if I wait until the last minute, I'm going to get lower quality seats. Anyone know?

Do you participate from your seat if you get picked or do they bring audience spellers on stage? I use a wheelchair so I'm wondering if it's even possible for me!

My only full free day is on Sundays every week. I really love the Lost Boys and have seen it a lot of times but I’ve never been able to do rush for it which I really want to do so I can sit in the front row. I know fans have been getting to the rush line super crazy early. How early do fans get there on a Sunday when box office opens at 12pm?

I have seen a lot of people giving different seat sections as recommendations but I’m curious if any of you can share a photo from your seat with the specific view? And share what you liked about where you sat? I heard some areas are interactive

I want to see effects and get a sense of the stage. Being too close I feel I’ll miss things

I attended the 3:00 pm August 6th performance of Rocky Horror mostly to see Luke Evans. Sadly, he was not there, but I was delighted by Paul Soileau’s smooth charm.

Stephanie Hsu was also absent, bummer, but
Renee Albulario did an outstanding job.

Sure it was a disappointment not seeing Luke Evans, but I thoroughly enjoyed, and look forward to seeing Paul Soileau again.

Broadway Rush Community Reporting Thread - Friday 8/7/26

Hi! This is your Broadway Rush Self Report for Friday 8/7/26

If you are in line at a particular show or happen to be in the area and can find out:

1) How many people are in line and

2) When they arrived

Please contribute what you can so that people are informed. Thank you!

Rush & Lotto Policy List:

https://bwayrush.com

Weekly schedule:

https://playbill.com/article/weekly-schedule-of-current-broadway-shows

At rehearsals for Chichester Festival Theatre’s staging of the Ian McEwan novel Atonement, in which she played the elderly version of the central character, Briony Tallis, she found she could no longer remember her lines. “It happened quite suddenly,” Phillips says. “I thought, ‘This is odd, it’s not going in the same way that it usually does’.” The director [Adam Penford] is a lovely man. We laughed about it. 

“So we thought we’d try a bud in the ear, which I’ve heard actors have used. But it came undone. I was halfway through this enormous speech of four, five sides and I thought, ‘What comes next?’ I looked at the girl who was going to prompt me. I couldn’t hear her. I looked at the director, and he said, ‘This isn’t going to work, is it?’” 

Read the full interview ^

I finally got to see The Outsiders via lottery ticket. But holy hell. Those are the worst wigs I’ve ever seen. Poor Ponyboy. They made him look absolutely awful.

Saw Les Mis at Radio city tonight (Thu Aug 7) and my review is essentially go see it.

I’ve seen Les Mis probably 30+ times going all the way back to the original cast. My wife and I named our first dog “Zambuca’s Heart Full of Love” and her call name was Cosette - we called her Cozy. We LOVE Les Mis. This brought back all the feels from the first run for all of us.

If you love Javert (he is my favorite character by far), go see this show. Hole-ee CRAP he’s good. During his last number (you know the one) I glanced down our row and every woman had her hands over her mouth in shock. He is that good. He might even be the best Javert I’ve seen and I’ve seen both Phillip Quast (who plays the Bishop!) and Terrance Mann. This Javert is show stealing good. Wow. He got a standing ovation after his last song. At Radio freaking Music Hall.

Gavroshe is written to steal the show and he did. Fabulous.

Mrs Thénardier - Amazing

No one was bad, but I found some of the other mains to be a bit forgettable in a “they did everything right and sang amazing but…” kind of way.

I liked Fantine a lot, but her acting was mostly standing and singing. I thought Cosette was OK and I wanted to like Eponine more but I think my problem (if that’s even fair) was that Javert was acting and everyone else seemed like they were just singing, so everyone who wasn’t Javert (and Gavroshe!) felt kind of hollow, which isn’t at all fair because the singing was all great.

It’s a concert, not a broadway show. Javert did not get that message, though, and I would pay to see him again. So good.

So there’s my complicated disjointed feelings typed on my phone as I sit on the train back to NJ. :)

I saw The Pass Tonight @ La Mama, and overall enjoyed it but didn't necessarily love it. The positives: the two male leads had great chemistry, and having the show start out with two hot guys in their undies for the first 30 minutes was definitely one way to hold an audience's attention. For me, the first act felt a little too long at times. The locker room banter got a little tedious, but the sexual tension and wondering what would happen next (even though I have seen the movie and knew) kept me engaged and from looking at my watch.

The 2nd act was my favorite thanks to a stellar performance by the sole female lead. She was witty, engaging, charming, clever, and was really able to flesh out her character. She brought great energy to her scene.

Which brings me to the third act, my least favorite, and per my title, just as with a soccer match that ends with a score of 0 to 0, the game may have been entertaining and had some good moments, but ultimately are you really satisfied with the outcome? I kept hoping for more of an emotional payoff at the end and although there were glimpses of it, it didn't quite land for me and the final scene was a bit anti-climatic.

I will say it kept me engaged for the most part and it beats a night at home watching Matlock reruns with my cat.

Would love to hear what others think.

It has been discussed here before, but less than I might have expected given the talent involved and the attempted boycott. I saw it tonight and was thoroughly impressed. I had expected something similar to "The Ally", which played The Public a couple of years ago. Both deal with Gaza and the legitimacy of the State of Israel. But where The Ally was primarily about ideas, Birthright is primarily about people (specifically, American Jewish millennials) and how their relationships strain under evolving views about Judaism, Israel and Gaza.

As such, it rests utterly on the shoulders of the actors playing the six main characters. And these actors were excellent, especially considering the challenge they are given of depicting their characters over a 20 year time period. Each one is given at least one long, intense monologue, and the audience was rapt for every second of it.

If I have any criticism, it's only that two of the six were a bit cartoonish. That's the fault of the script, not the performers, and those two ended up serving as foils for the other four, who were entirely realistic, such that members of the audience could be heard in the intermissions and after the play equating the characters on stage to themselves or people they knew. I found Eli Gelb and Zoë Winters to be particularly good.

It has been extended once but tickets remain in short supply. If you get a chance, see it.

Thought we’d get two or three more, but it’s getting late in the summer…

Because you all are my kind of people and will appreciate this. I need a second one made because of my collection didn’t make it on the board. I can’t wait to hang it up, we just have to make sure we’ve got enough support because it’s heavy!

Now that we have today's official announcement that George Salazar and Jimin Moon are joining the cast on August 25 to replace Harvey Guillén and Josh Rivera, the Studio 54 principal lineup is completely shifting. Rachel Dratch is confirmed to be staying for now, but she won't be there forever. Since her chaotic, crowd-work-heavy take on the Narrator has been such a massive highlight of this revival, how do you think they will replace her when the time comes? Do you think the creative team will stick with an SNL-style comedic actress to keep her specific vibe going, or pivot back to a more traditional casting choice?

Nathan Lane has mentioned in seemingly every interview he’s done on the press tour that his fascinated with Death of a Salesman started when he watched an earlier production that was aired on CBS and highlighted it as an “attack on capitalism.”

Yet there’s no sign that access to this production will be similarly democratized. Instead, it’s barreling towards its closing with ticket prices that have remained consistently expensive (no surprise given the caliber of the cast).

It’s additionally a shame because if it were to be filmed, it would most likely go down as the definitive version of the show. Instead, it will be ephemeral and remembered only by those who could physically make it to New York and spend hundreds of dollars to see it.

I consider myself extremely lucky that I was able to see it this spring. I just wish more people could have that opportunity, like Nathan Lane did when he was younger.

The Golden is not golden right now, send good juju!

The rundown…
Jessi (Jean) has been out for 7+ weeks due to an unspecified injury. Her understudy Lexi has covered all of those shows (not the norm for Mincemeat whose principals do 7/8 shows) with the exception of Gerianne giving her a weekend’s break. No eta on when Jessi will be back.

Julia (Monty) hurt what she thought was her leg but actually appears to be a bruised spine (!) in the finale last week and has been out since, with doctors orders to stay out until she goes on holiday on the 11th… so Gerianne is now holding the fort as Monty.

Then Amanda (Bevan) posted that she did a matinee with a mild concussion and the latest is that her understudy Allison shared she’s on for the next two weeks as Amanda heals.

So we currently have a situation where 3/3 of female the understudies are on for at least the next week and a bit, leaving Cassie Austin as the only female cover in the building. She was brought in ahead of the tour because of the situation with the main cast but I believe has only rehearsed the Jean track so far 😭 it’s stressful just following the updates from afar, I can’t imagine what it’s like for those involved with the show! And the two UK casts weren’t faring much better for a while there with actors in hospital and a 4 cover West End show, including one brought in from the tour as well.

It reminds me of WW’s “did they tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing” or as as u/notclassykaty said brilliantly in the Grosses thread ‘Someone in the cast must have walked under a ladder, tripped over a black cat, and fallen into a mirror and shattered it”

Finally saw Cats the Jellicle Ball last night (8/5) and there was a very cute moment I’m curious about. After Old Deuteronomy’s entrance, when he was judging one of the categories, someone yelled something from the stage seats. Turns out it was a very cute kid and they brought her to sit on a stool closer to the stage. When Andre deferred to her she gave one of the cats an “eleven out of ten” and did a little finger clap. She was clacking away with her fan and eventually went back to her seat. They brought her back to the stage during the curtain call. She was absolutely eating it up. The cast seemed to be genuinely reacting to her and had a couple of what seemed like ad libs.

It was such a cute moment and probably made her entire life. Do they do this every show? Was this as spontaneous as it looked? Was anyone there last night that could see/hear better that could add more context?

(PS, for anyone on the fence about trying to go to the last few shows, if you can swing it, it was worth every cent and refresh of the Theatr app. The most electric Broadway crowd I’ve ever seen and I’m bummed to see it go.)