MY 2014-2015 Theater Season

I was an avid theater goer until I moved out east to Suffolk County. Then I stopped because the journey into Manhattan is a long one from Ronkonkoma station. But after years of missing live theater I made a promise to myself to make the effort to venture into the City at least 6 times every year to see a play or musical.  The train ride takes at least 90 minutes.  But I have kept this promise.  This past season (which I measure from Tony Awards to Tony Awards) I saw Perfect Crime, Disgraced, The Boy from Oz, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Aladdin, Don't Dress for Dinner, I Love You You're Perfect Now Change,The Audience, Hand to God and Something Rotten!.  I still have one more play to see this season (Oliver!)  Four of those productions were at Theatre Three in Port Jefferson.  They provide quality productions and I am grateful they are so local.  One play was off-Broadway. I disliked Perfect Crime.  It was a big yawn with a leading lady much too old to still be cast in the ingenue role.  Six were Broadway productions. Not a bad year of theater-going. I did have a ticket to see Tis a Pity She's a Whore but got sick the day of the performance and had to miss it. A waste of a good ticket.

 I just bought a ticket to see On The Twentieth Century with Kristin Chenowith, Andy Karl, Mary Louise Wilson and Peter Gallagher. Years ago I saw the original production with Judy Kaye, Kevin Kline, John Cullum and Imogene Coca.  It was unforgettable.  I know it is not a musical that appeals to everyone.  It is sort of a Keystone Kops slap-stick farce in operetta style that takes place almost entirely on a train in the 1930s. It is very clever and very stylized and I am anxious to see this revival.  This will mark the 1st play of MY 2015-2016 season.  This coming year I also want to see King Charles III, Fiddler on the Roof and Hamilton and possibly An American in Paris.  I have no interest in seeing Fun Home.  A musical about a woman's journey to becoming a lesbian and the suicide of her closeted gay father???  I'll pass. And because I love British history I would love to see Wolf Hall Parts I and II but do not have the patience for two trips into the City. From what I am reading the season that closed had more promise than the season coming up.  But I will embellish Broadway productions with a few good Off-Broadway and Theatre Three productions.  The show's the thing! 

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