Well, I should say!
And yeah, put me in the category that there’s nothing remotely child inappropriate about Guys & Dolls and the songs are so catchy she’ll be singing them leaving the theater.
Well I should say.
Fond memories. I played Harold Hill in a high school production.
I agree with other posters that if she’s seen Rent, this will be tame by comparison.
Though if it were my daughter, we’d have a talk afterwards as to why the song “Marry the Man Today” might not be a good template for one’s own relationships. (I actually love the song. But it also makes me kind of cringe.)
If you’ve got the seat, take her. It’s really shows like Spring Awakening and Avenue Q that I would reserve for the teenage set. Just get there early and spend the five bucks to rent a booster cushion for the seat because Music Hall seats can be pretty deep for little kids to see from. She’ll enjoy it more if she doesn’t have to constantly be shifting around to be able to see.
If you haven’t been to the Music Hall in a while they’ve moved the cushion rental station from near the gift shop to between the last two aisles on the lower level. Pretty much straight above the men’s restroom on the bottom floor.
Moxmaiden and I are going Tuesday night.
Enjoy,
Steven
This one should be fine.
I’d wait a few years before Oh Calcutta!, however.
My sister did a high school production as well - I’m not sure why, but this show seems to really bring out the best in high school casts.
For people who may be wondering, it’s called TKTS.
Will “Marry the man today and change his ways tomorrow” go over her head?
No, it won’t. Please be prepare to put that in some kind of social context for her.
“Take back your mink, take back your pearls” is also problematic - respect for animals.
However, " … do not take that bet, … " is very good advice.
And it will be good opportunity to warn her about the dangers of dessert drinks.
Hey, that’s when we’re going, too! We should try to meet up during intermission or something. Which should be easy enough, Mtgman, since you and I are going to easily be the two biggest people there – we’ll just look over the heads of the rest of the audience and spot each other.
Edited to add: Oh, and GREAT advice about the booster seat.
Let us know how your daughter enjoyed the show. And whether you had to get a pair of dice and some Monopoly money to explain certain things. (My Dad had to after my first viewing.)
Regardless, enjoy the show!
Or, just explaining what the lady’s upset about.
I was in the pit orchestra (band) for my high school’s Guys and Dolls in 1975. I vividly recall my mother walking up to the director (a teacher) after one performance, angrily telling her that she thought it was an inappropriate choice for high schoolers. I bet she’d still feel the same way, and lots of people in the heartland/Bible belt would agree, but you know your own kids best.
Frankly I wouldn’t take my kids, not because of the subject matter, mostly because I think it’s a boring musical, except maybe for “A Bushel and a Peck”. I just caught it on TCM awhile ago, and I was pissed to be reminded that that number got cut from the movie.
We did have one minor problem with our performance. After weeks of rehearsals, we kids in the pit essentially had the lines memorized, and the most scandalous line in the entire play came on the last night. One of the actor’s final line was “What a lucky fellow!”, which we knew was coming, but he started the line with “What a f… <pause> lucky fellow!”. The band director just shook his head in shame while kind of laughing.
We usually hang out between aisles 4 and 5 on the orchestra level in one of the little seating areas. Sometimes we go a little further or come back one seating area, it depends on how crowded it is.
We’ll keep an eye out for you.
Enjoy,
Steven
Well, the strippers at the Hotbox were a little more explicit than I expected, although since it’s a Broadway production I guess I should have thought of that. They stripped down to bodysuits which looked like g strings and pasties. The streetwalkers weren’t as aggressive as they could have been, but there was one part with a streetwalker and a mime which raised an eyebrow.
But those were by far a minority of time in the show, and it’s just such a fun show. Adelaide was a hoot, reminded me very much of Lucille Ball. Nicely Nicely did a good job with Sit Down You’re Rockin’ the Boat and got the audience to laugh. There was applause after most of the numbers and even an AMEN in the middle of the prayer meeting at the mission.
Hope the kids enjoyed it and it was good to chat with you for a bit before the show.
Enjoy,
Steven
Yeah, I saw that bit and thought to myself, “No REAL mime EVER got THAT kind of action.” 
Lil’ Miss Sous-Chef really enjoyed it, and so did Chef Jr. We had two extra tickets, so each of them invited a friend; a good time was had by all. (Lil’ Miss Sous-Chef did whisper-scream “EWWWWW!” at the end of “Take Back Your Mink” when the burlesque girls stripped down to the fundamentals, but she was giggling at the same time.)
Since I became an actor, whenever I go to a show, I always try to size up the characters and see which one(s) I could be cast as; in this show, the only one I really felt like I could play was Big Julie – I have the right voice for Sky Masterson, but not the matinee-idol build, and my voice is too deep to sing Nicely Nicely Johnson or Nathan Detroit.
Speaking of Nathan Detroit, the actor who played him in last night’s performance had clearly taken his inspiration from the Broadway revival that starred Nathan Lane; he seemed to be doing a Lane impression.
Huh, I wouldn’t have expected that either. But then, I suppose, the two versions I’ve really seen are a high school production and the 1950s movie. In both cases they’d be inclined to be fairly modest, and I incorrectly assumed any production would keep that modesty.
The movie from the 1950s has Frank Sinatra as Nathan and - believe it or not - Marlon Brando as Sky. Its a good double feature with Paint Your Wagon where Clint Eastwood sings.
REEEEEally. I’m having a hard time imagining that. The movie’s tone must be a lot less silly than the play.
Nope, it’s just as silly. Brando is very Brando and is extremely slick throughout the movie, but Sinatra was happy to ham things up. Maybe not as much as Lane, but he knew he was playing a comedic role. The movie is basically just the play with a camera in front.
I’m surprised Lane played Detroit, really. He’s got the personality to play a nervous huckster, but I always saw Detroit as a short and wiry fellow.
“Equipoise.”