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OHMYGOD HEY!
After years of being a theatre obsessive, last month I finally took my first ever trip to New York City and Broadway with my stagey boyfriend Aeron James.
In Part 4 of the vlog series we caught FAT HAM, WITHOUT YOU, WICKED, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS and TITANIQUE as well as running a 5k in aid of @bcefa!
stay tuned for guest appearances from @AeronJames , @WaitintheWings , @broadwaybyghostlight , @bwaySHO ,@theatreislife , @HowardHoMusic and @bryantheBussinessAnalyst
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Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who donated to our 5k fundraiser! It has now ended but you can always donate to Broadway Cares here ⬇️
broadwaycares.org/
OMG. My late husband and I were on our honeymoon and saw Wicked in previews in the Gershwin Theatre in October 2003. We also sat in seats G1 and 3. The Gershwin is the largest and most modern on Broadway. I felt sorry for Kristin Chenowith for the performance we saw. The day before she hurt her neck in the fight scene with Idina Menzel . She preformed the whole show in a neck brace.... what a trouper.
What a cool story!
Brendon "does no one play Mario Kart?" 🤣
They didn't even drift on the turns 🙄
2:58 FYI, Dogman The Musical at New World Stages was written by Kevin Del Aguila who plays “Osgood” in Some Like It Hot. Kevin is a true multi-hyphenate, a talented actor-comedian-musician and writer. The other well known show he wrote is Altar Boyz (which also had a long run at New World Stages).
Cool info! I enjoyed Kevin as Smee in Peter and the Starcatcher
I hope you can come back to NYC every year to review the season's new shows. Following you on this escapade has been a blast.
Thank you Micky for doing this for this incredible organization. By doing this you are providing life sustaining medicine for those who are struggling with financial assistance as well as with social assistance and other services. Again thank you for your generosity.
14:38 Beetlejuice actually had themed slush too, in green apple and purple grape. My boyfriend got one of them when we saw it last May. Didn’t know wicked had it! Edited to add that I’ve actually seen wicked with Alex Brightman as Boq when I was a child (i think a few times) so it’s another cool connection between the two shows
Fun fact: New World Stages' space used to be the discount movie theatre where my friends and I would see $5 movies back last century 🙂
I was coming here to say that! I remember waiting on the Rent line in the middle of the summer and slipping away to the coolness of the cheapie theatres..
Okay, but can we please talk about how hilarious Brenden is??
If you think Gershwin theater has a weird entrance, the Marquis Theater (which was dark when you were in New York City) has the weirdest entrance. It’s in the Marriott on Time Square and to get to the theatre you have to take an escalator up to the 3rd floor.
Marriot is very weird
For the more modern theatres, the best is probably the Lyric (currently showing Cursed Child) -- that one was built out of two much older theatres that were next door to each other, and they kept the lovely old exteriors, but completely gutted the interiors and built a new modern space. (This was Garth Drabinsky's company, so it's gone through several changes of ownership and name since then -- it opened as the Ford Center for the Performing Arts.) It's by far the most physically accessible theatre (there is an elevator to the mezzanine!), and the seats are a bit wider than usual, and it's just really well designed. The stage and backstage areas were all set up with the expectation of really big shows with lots of special effects -- there's a bootleg of the original Ragtime production there where you can see how much stuff and people they can fit on that stage. (Based on the angle of that video, and a couple of special effects that I know were part of the show during previews but removed before the actual opening, i'm just about certain that it was filmed by someone involved with the production, with the intent of just using it to review and make changes and see how it looked, and then it somehow got leaked a couple decades later.)
The absolute worst of the newer theatres is the Marquis. The orchestra section is incredibly steep, with stairs down the aisles so that your feet are basically level with the shoulders of the person in front of you. Zero accessibility -- there is just one entrance that can be accessed without stairs, at the back of the orchestra, so if you want a seat that you can get to without stairs, your only option is row Y. And from what I've heard, the backstage was clearly designed by someone who's never worked in theatre and had no clue how things are supposed to work -- nothing is where you'd expect it to be. And in the alleyway at the entrance to the theatre, there are some huge glass walls/windows that Beetlejuice always kept covered with fan art (which was nice.) Allegedly, the other side of those windows is the ensemble dressing room -- there wasn't enough dressing room space, and that was the only free space to put them, so they had to cover the windows so it wasn't visible to everyone walking by.
Also, looks like you got to see Allie Trimm as Glinda! I love her in that role. (If you've heard her in anything else before, it's the original cast recording of 13 -- she was Patrice. Her understudy was Ariana Grande.)
Thanks for taking the time to write such an informative comment 😀
Also the Marquis by far has the worst lobby set up of any show. To use the restrooms you have to leave the theatre and use the ones in the hotel lobby, compared to the lyric where there’s several large restrooms.
As someone who works at the Lyric....yes we are the best and likely most beautiful modern house on Broadway.
I love how we don’t have the moment MickeyJo and I lapped y’all on camera…but just alluded to it 😅
I know! So much content was being filmed and yet we didn't get that 😂
Omg PLEASE post a review of Titanique!!! I’m going to NYC in June and I really want to see it but have no idea what to expect!
I first saw Wicked in London in 2019.
I saw Wicked in New York in 2023 (a week before you did) and was surprised by all the extra things the London production didn't have!!
Looking forward to the comparison video
The masterful assemblage of the very professional “Race Day” walkers on Governors Island captured the true focus of all elite athletes.
aeron looked like he was having a great time on the run 😂I was getting strong night out vibes!
I definitely agree about the pedestrianising of the West End, the amount of times no one can fit around a theatre opening for the evening show is nuts. Also count the hundreds of times I’ve nearly been mowed down by cars and Ubers while I’ve stood at stage door cuz they’ve mounted the pavement.
I'm thrillified that you saw Wicked!!! I'm the one who told you about the monkeys. When I saw it on Broadway many years ago, I had Stephanie Block and Sebastian Arcelus -- a once in a lifetime experience. Looking forward to your official comparison/review video.
I’m very intrigued by that west end vs Broadway wicked video, can’t wait for it!
Sub 25mins for a 5k??? Damn Mickey-Jo, that's epic! Mad kudos and congrats on raising so much money 😁🎉
This video is my avengers endgame
Missing White Girl in Danger is a blessing in disguise! It wasn't good. I hope you got to see LEA in Funny Girl, my favorite show. Also, New York, NY was great.
The Gershwin is the biggest theatre on Broadway at about 1,933 seats.
I would LOVE a Broadway 5k/marathon thing where you can meet people on the trek, I love that idea!
Love watching your NYC adventures!
Fantastic time on the 5k! Great vlog - lots of happy vibes. Now want to go and see Wicked again.
your vlogs are my FAVORIIIITE! esp this series
So exciting because I saw Wicked a couple of weekends ago! I was supposed to see it on Broadway back in 2007 but couldn't last minute because that very weekend the stagehand strike started. As in we woke up in NYC that morning. I the saw it when it came through touring a few years later, but as much as I enjoyed the touring show I think that touring shows have definitely improved in general sense then (a lot of bare sets back then for example). So I finally got redemption! Also my sister wasn't as impressed by the Hall of Fame (she isn't as much into theatre and its history as I am)
All that to say, to see you talking about the same show and cast and theatre I had just seen was very cool and to see you ex ited about some of the same things we were!
MJT!! That is a great 5k time!!! good for you!
Another whirlwind time in NYC. I can't keep up. And all that food. Also, congratulations on your completion of the 5K. 👏 You've given me so many suggestions for places to go and plays to see. I just hope some of them will still be around in late June and late July when I'm in NYC.
So glad to see your take on Fat Ham. That's my Saturday matinee this weekend.
NEW World Stages use to be a movieplex in the 1990’s when I lived in NYC.
Speaking of Cinderellas, both bad and good, Marla Mindelle was in R&H Cinderella as one of the stepsisters in the 2013 version!
TPTGW being at New World is BRILLIANT. I hope it stays there indefinitely. So funny! I love that space
Making me nostalgic Mickey...i've been to New World Stages once, in 2009, to see The Toxic Avenger Musical, but getting to and out of the theater it was evening/night, so i never really got to see the building or it's surroundings
you are a legend
I have that For Good t-shirt from 13:31, got it on my second trip to see Wicked in London four years ago! I've been to see Wicked three times now (which is a lot for me, I generally only go and see most shows once, it's very rare I'll see something a second time and Wicked is the only show I've seen more than twice) so I'd definitely never wonder why you'd be going to see it again in New York when you can see it whenever in London. I'll definitely be interested to see your video about the differences between the London and New York productions. I never realised so many shows did themed cocktails, I'd never really noticed it in London till this year when I was at Wicked and saw their themed cocktails, and then again at Operation Mincemeat. It's very possible that West End shows have also always done themed cocktails though and I've just never noticed because I don't really drink spirits!
Theatre Tube seems like such a fun group
Avionce who you saw in Titanique is a local legend around Charlotte
would love your thoughts on Titanique! Me and my friends could not stop laughing during that show. Celine was hilarious! And the Iceberg was so ridiculous!
Its a fascinating story of The American Airlines Theatre A 1920 theatre. It was at the other end of the street and then move the entire theatre to its place now before it was renovated for Ragtime.
As a Lin person I would love to see him in one of your vids!
I ran in that 5K as well! hearing myself in the background of the ferry clips was so unexpected
Ooo as an Aussie I wonder what kinda production we have of wicked. We are getting wicked for a 3rd time in Australia so I want to know what's so different tbh 😂
So fun seeing all the creators hang out 😂
Finding it almost ironic that the curtain call song for Fat Ham is sung by Alex Newell only a few days after you saw Shucked.
Not The countess deleceps 😂😂😂😂😂
You may want to see about putting a flashing lights warning because it could trigger a seizure at that one portion. Other then that another fun & a bit chaotic vlog. I 've considered walking a 5K like one of the Disney ones but not sure I'd be up for it but they are doing a virtual few this year so since I wouldn't have to wake up ungodly early for it that may be an option.
That is 100% Jacques 😂
Yes it was!
IT’S LUANN AND JACQUES!!!!
I had to explain so much background context to Aeron 🤣
You didn’t miss much at white girl in danger. It was a bizzare show
Now I'm trying to work out which roads could be easily pedestrianised in London's theatreland. Several of the real big theatres are on major roads (e.g Apollo Victoria, The Dominion, several on The Strand), but having just been to the Noel Coward I'd suggest St Martin's Lane as a good option. You could extend out the pedestrianisation from Leicester Square which would include several theatres
I'm going to spend way too much time thinking of ideas about this now!
Practically I think St Martin's would be great for this, it doesn't see much traffic anyway. I'd also suggest Old Compton Street for the Prince Edward which was pedestrianised during covid to allow for outdoor dining. Argyll Street where the Palladium is is another, people act as though it already is!
@@MickeyJoTheatre ashamed to admit that I thought Argyll Street already was. Oops
20:19 I scanned the comments but it would appear I'm the only Broadway *and* Marvel fangirl here who got all excited at Mickey's mention of Bleecker Street. lol
You and me both - that's why I was so excited to be there!
Ooh wicked is fun!
Would love to know the differences
Am I crazy? We just went to see wicked last weekend and there wasn’t an intermission?? You guys had an intermission after act one do you think they change it? so curious .
one of the differences I can tell between "Wicked" on Broadway and the UK, no brass in the interlude during "As Long as You're Mine" (or if there *IS* it's not as noticeable)
Sneaky Howard Ho and Brandon cameo!
Houston... for some reason it is pronounced one of three ways depending on where you are and what the local pronunciation is. The "hou" is pronounced either "ew" like Houston, TX, "ow," or "oh."
You were in union square and you saw Ellis Island and didnt reference Ragtime....missed opportunity
Brava on the run
Only realised this 2 days later when I saw Ragtime in concert!
The street is named after William Houston. Not the city ;)
Can you make a video talking about wicked broadway and west end and how the productions are different and similar. And yes I love when the monkeys fly over the audience
That video is on its way!
Hi how are you doing
Allergic to apples? I am someone with a sleuth of food allergies and it's the first time l hear that!
Congratulations on coming in under 25mins in the 5k and for raising so much money. I know it's a great cause, so I wouldn't regret where the money went, but I'd have been pretty disappointed if you'd put in as little effort as some of the people on your team. Couldn't they just have formed a theater cheer squad if they wanted to live stream from the event but not participate?