Last week company management offered us free tickets to The Producers starring Tony Danza at the Paris. Our free seats were some of the best seats in the house: front and center, about 5 rows back. There were about 15 Mamma Mia people in the orchestra section and then like 50 empty seats around us. On a Friday night. Yikes. I feel unqualified to fairly critique the show because they do a 90 minute condensed version of the Broadway show which I have never seen, but that being said, it was a pretty grueling hour and a half of musical comedy. It was one of those productions where you can see the actors working really hard on stage. Like the director had told them that this show is quirky and raunchy and stylized, but then didn't show them how to make it that way so everything just seemed contrived and overwrought. There were some good performances, but overall it made me want to see the show with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick.
They offered us two tickets per person, so I of course signed up to get 2 even though I knew I wouldn't have a date. My friend Jen (who plays one of my best friends both on and offstage) did the same thing, so we agreed to be each others dates and then to try and pick up some guys at the casino to give our extra tickets to. This sort of worked, but we sort of got too tired to really seek out guys that we would actually want to go on a date with and ended up handing the tickets off to the first pair of bewildered looking guys we could find. They were probably more excited that Jen and I were talking to them than they were about getting tickets to the Producers, but they accepted our offer enthusiastically. After the show they thanked us and tried to ask us out for a drink, but after 90 minutes of forced jokes about the ca-razy world of musical theater that we had to return to the next day, we were unfortunately too tired.
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When you were in the front row, did you keep 'em closed?
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