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happy national cheese day 🧀

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They have arrived!!

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Interesting timing for this to pop up...and a reminder that Joe may choose not to do stage door at all, or you may attend on a night where he chooses not to do it. People shouldn't be weird about it if he chooses not to:

Has the Broadway Stage Door Experience Become Tainted by Badly Behaved Fans?

BroadwayWorld breaks down why some actors are choosing not to stage door at Broadway shows as safety concerns continue to rise.

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If you are planning to go to see Joe on Broadway, or want to see the show more than once....there are ways to score discount tickets! Rush tickets is usually my preferred way--if you are willing to hit up the box office as soon as they open on the day of the show, it's a great way to score discount tickets! I once paid $400 for opening night of a show, then saw it again the next night for $35 via a rush ticket! And it was just as good both times!

This reddit thread has a great guide to ways to score discount tickets via various methods--rush, lotteries, memberships to things like TDF (Theater Development Fund) etc.

So check it out!

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If anyone wants an idea of the price range for tickets to Other Desert Cities, I kind of just looked into the middle of October (doesn't look like any tickets are available for the official opening night in October, that might be invite only.)

Tickets for a Wednesday matinee look to range between $88.48 and $470.40 while a Wednesday evening show ranges from $99.68 to $582.40. Obviously it's cheaper to sit in the back of the balcony than it is the pit. Although this isn't like a concert--you don't want to be right up front in the first row, those are the worse seats. Your neck is gonna be cranked back all night, and you won't be able to see the whole stage due to the height of the stage. The middle sections are usually the best seats.

Whereas it looks like a Saturday show has the same price range for matinee or evening: $110.88 to $582.40.

Prices can fluctuate, like around the holidays and stuff, but this just gives you an idea if you are trying to decide.

Also if you are planning to go during previews, for the first week there is no Wednesday matinee, only a Saturday matinee. And there is only a matinee on Sundays (no evening show) for most of the run except for the two Sundays after Christmas, when an evening show is added.

And like all Broadway shows, there are no performances on Mondays. And obviously no performances at all on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Years Eve, and New Years Day.

Just if you're trying to plan your trip so you don't show up on a day where there is no performance. :)

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If you'd like to skim through some audition sides from Other Desert Cities to get an idea of what kind of character Joe will be playing (Trip), you can find some here:

https://www.providenceplayers.org/images/2014/11/Audition-Sides-Package-PPF-Other-Desert-Cities-post.pdf

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Ticket sale info for Other Desert Cities:

A ticket pre-sale for Amex card holders will begin May 27 at 10 AM ET. General sales will begin June 3 at 10 AM ET at OtherDesertCitiesBroadway.com.

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Oh shit, it's true...Joe is heading to Broadway:

Julia Louis-Dreyfus will make her Broadway debut this fall, alongside the Broadway veterans Ed Harris, Allison Janney and Lily Rabe, in a revival of the family drama “Other Desert Cities.” Joe Keery (“Stranger Things”) will also make his Broadway debut in the production.

The play, written by Jon Robin Baitz and set in Palm Springs, Calif., is about a Christmas gathering rocked by a daughter’s plan to write a memoir that explores a family trauma. John Benjamin Hickey will direct the revival, which is planned for a 16-week run at the Hudson Theater; previews will start on Sept. 29 and opening night is set for Oct. 18.

The play was staged Off Broadway in early 2011 at Lincoln Center Theater, and then transferred to Broadway later that year. The critic Ben Brantley, reviewing the Broadway production for The New York Times, praised the show, saying, “all family reunions should be this satisfying,” and describing it as “built with gleaming dialogue, tantalizing hints of a dangerous mystery and a structural care that brings to mind the heyday of Lillian Hellman.”

“Other Desert Cities” was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for drama; the Pulitzer board called it “a taut, witty drama.” It also received a Tony nomination in 2012 for best play.

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Everyone’s all excited about Joe playing with Post Animal in Chicago tonight and meanwhile I’m over here like “If he didn’t go see the first Star Wars movie out in theaters in 7 years immediately after the show, I will refuse to believe his claims that he’s a Star Wars nerd.” 😂

FYI, go see The Mandalorian and Grogu, it was really good. This is the way.

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So... that in the fall stage opportunity that had Gaten cancelling at a con wasn't for something on Broadway, it was for the Rent revival on the West End, which I know Gaten is gonna just kill at:

‘Rent’ West End Revival: ‘Stranger Things’ Star Gaten Matarazzo to Play Mark Cohen

Gaten Matarazzo will star as Mark Cohen in the West End revival of "Rent."

So....I suppose we can't write off those Joe Keery in a Broadway play rumors *just* yet....

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Another thought about this whole Joe/concert sitch.

People have been saying this shows he's being greedy. That he shouldn't take money to do a sponsored show, etc.

The thing is, as Joe's music gets more popular, his costs to fund his music career are increasing. Even though he's said he's been mindful with the money he spends on recording, something like The Crux costs way more to record than his other albums just because of the way it was recorded. It's way more expensive to rent out studio time at Electric Lady(probably like $1000-$2000 a day just to rent the space) than it was for Joe to record music in his bedroom and send it off to Adam to mix at his own home. And it's not like he's selling millions of albums. Wikipedia says that as of last July, The Crux had sold….8,000 pure album sales (you holding a physical copy in your hands) and 79,000 equivalent sales (number of streams converted to one album sale.) Now I'm sure it's gone up since then due to more people discovering him, but he's not selling millions. He might just be clearing the costs to record the record at that point.

And he's said before that he's lucky, his acting career can pick up the slack in funding those things. But touring is also expensive and he's gotta pay for that too--renting the venues, security, lighting, equipment, transpo, catering...all of that. And while his band are his friends, they have to eat too and they aren't doing this for free. Joe has to pay them as well. Stranger Things money only goes so far. So it's very likely that while some of you are sitting at one of his non Tame Impala concerts this summer, the concert you are watching was funded and made possible in part by the money he made signing on to do this event with Chase.

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This whole discourse over the Chicago Joe Keery concert is one of the most bizarre things I’ve ever seen.

This is not a normal, tickets on sale to the general public concert, so you really can’t compare it the other shows Joe is doing or has done in the past. This is basically one step away from a private event. This wasn’t Joe looking at his calendar and saying “Hey I’ve got this Friday in June open, let me put on a show for the folks.” Chase hired him to put on a concert for their card holders specifically. It is a perk they provide multiple times a year to their card holders. I get that it would suck that it’s inaccessible to a chunk of fans but the man played concerts for an entire year in the US that seemed pretty accessible. And no artist’s shows will ever be 100% accessible to all fans who want to go. I’ve been a fan of Taylor Swift for years, never gotten to see her in concert. Heck, *this* concert, I qualified for tickets as a Chase card holder. Still wasn’t able to get them.

The same day announcement for ticket sales is something Chase does for all of these shows. That’s not Joe trying to screw fans over. Again, it’s not designed to be an on sale to the general public show.

The meet and greet tickets are something Chase offers to make their high level card holders feel special. All of the concerts Chase puts on offer something like that even if the artists does not do those on their normal tours. Chase sets all that up and again, it’s not Joe trying to screw fans over because he only likes people with an 800+ credit score.

I’ve seen so many videos of Joe coming out to say hi after shows to fans and he just flew to Japan to do a meet and greet for free with fans. Like, he tries to meet people which I’m pretty impressed by because I wouldn’t want to meet fans and I say that as someone who has paid for artist meet and greets before.

Are there issues with the ticket industry as a whole? Sure! Ticketmaster/LiveNation needs to be broken up. It’s a monopoly and it holds both artists and fans hostage. Scalpers need to have limits set on what they can charge but unfortunately some states (like Illinois) have ticket broker laws in place to protect them.

Are Joe’s VIPs for his regular concerts too expensive? Probably. But fans have made it clear they prioritize getting on the barricade (could never be me, my old ass needs a seat to sit in please and thank you) and so they are gonna charge you for that early access to get on the floor. Other than fans collectively deciding not to buy them, I don’t know what the answer is to that one.

At this point, I kinda wish Joe would take a break from music/touring altogether and go back to acting. At least on the big or small screen, we all get to enjoy him the same way!

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I think about this tidbit from an old Billboard article from time to time. If I was having a garage/yard sale and Joe Keery came wandering up the driveway to browse my wares, I'd have to close the garage, run inside the house, and never been seen again! LOL!

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Sad this means that the rumor about Joe going to Broadway is not true.

Happy that Joe not going to Broadway means my hope that the rumors Joe is joining the MCU are true remain alive and well!!

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Who do I have to bribe to get Joe Keery on Last Meals? The guy is a foodie, it seems like a natural interview fit!

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He's out here really refusing to do anything to put those Marvel casting rumors to rest with the way he's been bulking up muscle.

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So....where are all the fix it fics?