Last stage play you watched/read

Does it count if you're playing Pulitzer in Newsies as seeing/reading it?

Tonight is my last night performing in a local production of Newsies the Musical as Joseph Pulitzer and suffice it to say; I am a bit bummed but glad I had such a great opportunity.

The Sweet Science of Bruising at the wonderful Wilton Music Hall. Great play about female Victorian boxers written by Joy Wilkinson who wrote The Witchfinders.

Just went to see One Man, Two Guvners and it was one of the most hilarious shows I have ever seen 🤣So much physical comedy!😃

Legally Blonde at the Arts Center. Fun, campy, silly. I love it.

I went and saw two plays at the Pop-Up Globe this week. It completed my viewing of all the plays in their repertoire. They did A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Measure For Measure and Twelfth Night. None of them were brilliant (except maybe Twelfth Night which was hilarious) but they were all very good and they all tried to avoid the trap of producing a museum piece and created something relevant and modern with its own ideas or take on the text.

I loved all of them: for those who don’t live in the Antipodes or have no interest in theatre, the Pop-Up Globe is a traveling reconstruction of the Globe theatre that performs Shakespeare’s plays in an environment close to what the public in Shakespeare’s day would have been in. It’s a New Zealand-based project that has travelled over to Australia for a while.

All the plays were great fun. It’s a mostly young cast but they are a true ensemble and work brilliantly together and make it a fantastic experience for the audience who are often involved in the proceedings as well. They do take a few liberties (there’s a couple of references to local politics, a few deliberate anachronisms (in Hamlet, most characters were wearing something approaching generic period dress but Polonius was wandering around with a mobile phone (which was the cause of him being discovered by Hamlet behind the arras) and it is quite a lot more sweary than i remember Shakespeare being) and a reasonable amount of improv with the audience or - as was the case when I saw Hamlet - the weather. But this just added to the atmosphere: it was the most fun I’ve had at the theatre in years.

Oh My God! I love that show! 😃I saw it on Broadway😊 Did they set it the UK or US for London? What was your favorite songs? Mine is definitely Michael in the Bathroom! How was Jeremy and the Squip?
They are making a movie version as well!😊

I’d be curious to hear you like the book🤔 It’s very very different from the musical! For one thing the squip is far more ambiguous, rather than straightforwardly cartoonishly evil. While I think the book has its own merits, I personally prefer the musical overall. The characters are a lot more sympathetic overall than they are in the book!