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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.
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Somewhere in the west of Ireland, a package arrives from America. That is the whole engine of this one, and it turns out to be plenty.
Parcel from America is a new Irish musical built from a story by the seanchaí Tomáseen Foley, about a boy, a widow who has run out of people to talk to, and a parish that finds out what one cardboard box from across the Atlantic can do to a winter. If you grew up in a family where the American parcel was an event, the coat, the coffee, the things you could not get at home, you already know why this works.
Jahnna Beecham, Malcolm Hillgartner and Michael J. Hume wrote the book and lyrics, Hillgartner and Kevin Corcoran the music, and J.R. Sullivan directs with choreography by Barry McNabb. It plays Theatre Row on West 42nd Street: previews from October 28, opening November 4, closing November 22. Recommended for ages 12 and up, and aimed squarely at the part of December when you want to feel something.
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