Robert C.
Yelp
I purchased a $34 one year subscription to www.tdf.org to buy tickets to 4 shows. Discount seats became availability online a few days before the performance. Two Friday night center orchestra tickets to "Cagney" cost us $28.50 each, full price $90 each.
This is one of the older theaters around, but has been completely renovated over the years. It is located in the far southwestern corner of the Broadway theater district, a good 40 minute walk from our Manhattan Club timeshare on 56th street It can be considered off Broadway.
Handicap ramp in front of the theater, but no handicap access within the theater, to overcome a series of steep narrow stairs leading to the theater seats. If you don't like steep stairs, then this theater is not for you!
Aisles on each side of the theater, with three entrances. Stadium seating, with your knees at neck height of the row in front of you.
We had to climb over some larger ladies to get to our seats. Seats are cramped, with knees resting against the seat in front of you. Ladies got up and shuffled down to the aisle. They decided they didn't want me passing by, rubbing my behind against their groins! What you would call intimate seating!
At intermission, wife tramples a couple of slow pokes on her mad dash to the bathrooms.
Bathroom lines for both men and women at intermission. 5 stalls for the women. 296 seat capacity, or 1 to 30 ratio of toilets to women. To accompany all 150 women, each women would have to take no more than 30 seconds on the toilet!
Sodas $4, but only coke and diet coke -no caffeine free sodas, and all sodas must be consumed during intermission.
"Cagney" is the rags to riches story of actor James Cagney, his rise from vaudeville to the Hollywood screens in the 1930s, his rise as an actor "on top of the world", his conflicts with Jack Warner, owner of Warner Brothers Motion Pictures, his fame in a series of gangster movies in the 1930s and early 1940s, and his breakup and reconciliation with Warner.
The entire show is one big musical, with almost nonstop singing and dancing in various settings and costumes. Small orchestra of 5 players behind the stage. Lots of tap dancing scenes toward the end. A vastly entertaining show I would go to again and again!.