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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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It's 1954. The Academy Awards. Marlise Mattox is Hollywood's golden girl — right up until the moment she's arrested for murder, on the red carpet, in front of every flashbulb in Los Angeles. One arrest, one ruined gown, one career detonating in real time.
Marlise! is a new musical comedy that takes that gloriously lurid premise and runs with it: old-Hollywood shine, a framed leading lady, and songs built for a star who refuses to go quietly. Harrison Bryan and Katie Emerson lead a developmental production written by Jesse Ayala and Justino Tesoro, directed and choreographed by Joe Barros, with roots in BerkleeNYC and the BMI Lehman Engel workshop.
It's playing The Players Theatre in Greenwich Village, a 199-seat room where you're close enough to watch the mascara run. If your idea of a good night out is a wronged movie star, a murder she (probably) didn't commit, and a score that knows exactly how camp it is, this one's for you. Grab a seat before word gets out.
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