Well, whereas no less than three Broadway shows premiered last week (COMPANY, THE VERTICAL HOUR, VOYAGE), this week will bring merely one: HIGH FIDELITY, the musical version of the cult book and subsequent film about a pop music-obsessive record store owner with numerous issues with women. Onstage, it kinds of resembles a modern-day version of COMPANY or NINE, with the emphasis on the individual versus his chorus of women.
More is certainly going on with premieres Off-Broadway, including Signature Theatre's TWO TRAINS RUNNING, the second of the theater's August Wilson season with impressive productions at merely $15 a ticket; FLOYD AND CLEA, a modern western musical at Playwrights Horizons; KAOS, a Martha Clarke dance piece at New York Theatre Workshop based somehow on Pirandello; and THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE, a new David Mamet play at Atlantic Theater Company adapted from a novel about early 20th century America life.
What excites me most this week theatrically is that I'll finally get to see SPRING AWAKENING on Broadway, after having seen it a number of times this summer Off-Broadway at the Atlantic. I understand that a number of changes have been made to the staging to generally clean it up, which it really did need though the show was quite outstanding already.