Off Off Broadway Musicals - i put my life on a shelf

As the title states, I saw Beau the Musical. I have mentioned I prefer plays to musicals but this one has a ton of positive reviews so I decided to see it. I am so glad I did. The only thing I knew was that it was about a queer man who discovers his grandfather is not dead as he had been told.

The show as at Theater 154, which holds 74 people. I had never been here before. I was incrediby cranky because HOT when I arrived. I was holding up the QR code to have my ticket scanned without even realizing my ticket didn’t have a QR code. I was wondering what was taking the woman so long and why she had a weird look on her face. Oh because I am an idiot, got it.

It took me forever to get here because fuck you the MTA. It is 90 something degrees outside. I had to transfer trains. If it’s 90 something outside, it’s a million something inside a train station and of course the D train is delayed. I had to wait 23 minutes for the D, on top of the 10 I had to wait for the N. I never cooled down, could not end the sweating. I was soaked before I even left my train station at home, super soaked by the time I arrived at the venue. And still wet when I got back home hours later.

Once you enter, you go downstairs. Restrooms to the left, theater to the right. There’s two restroom entrances, neither were marked men or women so free for all. There was no line for either, which pleasantly surprised me since I was sure I was going to be too late to use the restroom before the show.

Walking to the theater brings you past a bar, I wanted a drink so bad I AM SO BURNING HOT. I got a Diet Coke which was lukewarm, but it was only $3.

There were signs up that you could go inside and get a drink from the Distillery Bar on the stage. I didn’t know what that was about so I didn’t get off the bar line. Once I did get inside, I saw there was in fact a bar on the stage.

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Welcome to the first of a series where I write reviews about the Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway shows I see as a local living here in New York City. I’ve been hesitant to start this as I mostly see Off Off Broadway shows with such short runs that they are likely no longer running when you are reading this. But let’s face it, this blog has always been more diary like than informative so fuck it. I’ll also confess to coming up with this idea while thumb typing on my phone traveling between two shows yesterday. I have a lot of ideas, none of which I am prepared to do. (Ideas such as sharing photos of the curtain calls, maybe show better photos of the outside of the venues, absolutely less lazy Instagram photos with my dumb thumbnail in them, etc.) If I waited until things were perfect to start making posts, I’d likely never make a post.

One last rambly ramble before I start my inaugural review. Just in case you were wondering what the differences are between Off, Off-Off and Broadway, it goes by capacity.

0-99 seats = Off Off Broadway
100 – 499 seats = Off Broadway
500+ seats = Broadway

Today’s show was Mr. Puppy at AMT Theater. This was an 11:00 AM show geared towards children. If you have a vision of a theater filled with screaming, crying and kicking kids, I have to tell you there was really only one distracting kid who’s dad was pretty quick to whisk him out of the theater.

The show’s story is about our hero, Mr. Puppy, a dog toy, who escapes the shelf at the pet store and heads out in a hot air balloon to see the world.

He visits Brazil, Kenya, India, Jamaica, Japan, France, Mexico and New York City. Through his travels, he makes friends and learns that music brings people together.