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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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Truly, Howard Hughes is a world premiere and a Stanley Drama Award winner, with music by James Scully, a book by Frank Evans, Jennifer Paulson-Lee and Scully, and lyrics by Evans and Chad Gorn. Paulson-Lee directs and choreographs. The York Theatre Company has been quietly launching new musicals on the Upper East Side for decades, and this is exactly their lane: an ambitious original score, a big American life, a 204-seat room where you can hear every lyric.
Performances run at the Theater at St. Jean on East 76th Street from September 9 through October 4. Casting is still to be announced, so watch this space.
Uptown, brand new, and about a man who genuinely never did anything at half volume.
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