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Full guide →Getting there. Make a right out of the theatre, a right at 7th Ave., then a right onto 45th St. The marked stage door is on your right about halfway up the block toward 6th Ave.
When to go. Head straight out at curtain call. Two-show days are the worst bet at both performances — the cast rests through the matinee and is spent by the evening. A Sunday matinee is the best single bet, because it is a one-show day. In bad weather the barricades sometimes never go up at all.
Who comes out. Anywhere from nobody to most of the cast. Nobody can tell you in advance which three — not us, not the theatre. Treat any list that claims otherwise with suspicion.
What to bring. Tonight’s Playbill and a fine-tip Sharpie, held open to the page you want signed. Ask before you photograph anyone, and keep the pavement clear — it is a working door, not a red carpet.
Why “not confirmed”. The door above is a fact about the theatre and holds for years. Whether THIS production does a stage door is a fact about the company — it changes with the cast, and no source publishes it. We’d rather say so than guess.
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The Lowdown
The play follows Brooke Wyeth, a once-promising novelist who returns home to Palm Springs after a six-year absence to spend Christmas with her family — former members of the Reagan inner circle. When Brooke announces she’s about to publish a memoir digging into a buried chapter of the family’s past, the holiday turns into a very civilized war. Think Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? but with better wine and worse secrets.
The original 2011-12 Broadway production won a Tony for Judith Light and ran for nearly 250 performances. This revival promises to take that legacy and crank it up several notches with one of the most exciting casts assembled for a Broadway drama in years. Details on theater and dates are still TBA, but when tickets drop, they will go fast.
This is the kind of show that makes you feel genuinely lucky to live near Manhattan. Keep an eye on this one.
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