Good Time Charlie
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Full guide →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 “still confirming”. The theatre details above are solid. What we haven’t nailed down is whether this particular production does a stage door — that changes with the cast, and no source publishes it. We’d rather say so than guess.
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The Lowdown
Some uncles teach you to fish. Ryan J. Haddad's uncle Charlie taught him to love a good show. In Good Time Charlie, arriving at The Public Theater's Martinson Hall, Haddad turns that inheritance into a solo piece spanning more than thirty years of gay men growing up, coming out, falling in love, and treating a Broadway cast album like scripture.
Directed by Danny Sharon, it's a generous, funny, big-hearted memory play about the people who hand us our obsessions and the ones we become because of them. Haddad has built a career out of disarming an audience and then quietly breaking its heart, and this is him doing exactly that — one story, one stage, no place to hide.
The Public is where a lot of New York's best new work meets its first real audience, and a Haddad solo show is a hot ticket. First previews September 24.
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