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Stage Door
Getting there. To your left as you exit the theatre, behind a black metal fence.
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
The plot is essentially a fever dream set in 19th-century Montmartre, where a starving writer named Christian loses his mind over a club performer named Satine. It is Baz Luhrmann’s aesthetic dialed up to an exhausting volume, packed with a jukebox score that treats pop hits like musical furniture. The show mashes up everything from Lady Gaga to The Police, which is either a stroke of chaotic genius or a migraine waiting to happen depending on your tolerance for pop-chart nostalgia. Go if you want to be blinded by glitter and deafened by bass, but leave the cynicism at the door.
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Our verdict
We're really excited for the show, but it really didn't pan out. The singing wasn't as good as expected, and the movie put it to shame. We wish this were better.
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Reader average 4.0 ★ · 1 reportA jukebox spectacle that throws the entire pop songbook and a few tons of glitter at you and somehow makes it land. Ten Tonys in 2021, a set that turns the Hirschfeld into a Parisian fever dream, and mashups that shouldn't work but do. Thin on story, enormous on sensation — go for the maximalist sugar rush.
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