When I moved to New York City, I promised myself I’d go see shows at every available opportunity, and while I was in college, I did just that. Unfortunately, now that I’m out of college, every available opportunity has dwindled down to “every once in a while when a friend has an extra/free ticket and I’m not working”.
I do manage to go to a fair share of readings and workshops, but, if I had all the money and time in the world, here are the five current shows I’d want to see first:
1. OUR TOWN
I’ve loved this play, ever since Kevin Arnold and Winnie Cooper did it as their school play on “The Wonder Years”. This production had me at hello, or rather, the Stage Manager’s opening monologue, that you can see here. Yeah, everyone has seen it/read it a billion times, but…doesn’t it still sort of make you cry every time? Just me? Ok.
2. DISTRACTED
It’s supposed to be a funny, interesting look at a fairly taboo subject, namely, are we over-diagnosing and over-prescribing ADD/learning disability medicine to kids? And anyone who saw Rabbit Hole can attest to Cynthia Nixon’s ability to forget all about Sex and the City once she’s onstage…
An SAT tutor experiments with bestiality. That sounds like it would be so…..like, eye-roll, college theater-y, doesn’t it? But supposedly it’s a smart, well directed show, written by recent Yale Drama grad Dorothy Fortenberry. Under St.Marks theater, by the way, is a TINY theater, so it would be interesting to see how the cover such uncomfortable subjects in such a small space. (Bestiality is uncomfortable, right? That’s not just me…)
UPDATE: It closed!!! Sad!
4. MARY STUART
Because, I’m pretty sure that after seeing this play, I would be like “Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansen who?”
It’s the world’s longest running musical, and I haven’t seen it. It’s in that little theater off of Times Square, and I think I’ve *almost* seen it about six times, and then for whatever reason decided not to at the last minute. But I really should.
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