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In this excerpt, Mr. Chapin, now the president of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, muses about the musical's book two weeks before the first out-of-town performance in Boston.
In March, she recalled having had a "severe" panic attack before an out-of-town performance of "Frozen" in Denver. .
"It's a great feeling," especially after a barrage of criticism last summer, said one of the trustees, Marc G. Gershwin, referring to the storm in the theatrical world in August when Stephen Sondheim criticized the musical adaptation of the Gershwin opera "Porgy and Bess" before its out-of-town performances had even begun.
So with the year's subscription concerts behind them, the players have turned their attention to, well, more concerts: freebies (like the annual tour of the city's parks), out-of-town performances (the orchestra's residency at the Vail Valley Music Festival in Colorado) and unusual projects (a Varèse concert at this year's Lincoln Center Festival).
After more than a year of workshops and out-of-town tryout performances, everyone involved with "Once" has become reconciled to the complexities of art's imitating life in the musical, which opens Tuesday at New York Theater Workshop.
Mr. Nichols said there were no plans right now for an out-of-town tryout, and no performance dates and theater to disclose beyond the intention to open next fall.
The poor performance of out-of-town supermarkets meant the land was not necessarily worth more if it was dedicated to new retail sites.
Opera League volunteers will be on hand for all Ring performances, providing out-of-town Ring-goers with everything they need to know about the City of Angels - from maps and travel directions, to advice on places to go, what to see, and fun things to do.
She saves up for "Ring" tickets, she said, and treats the performances like an "out-of-town vacation".
Most major new musicals have a weekslong out-of-town tryout run and then hold another four or five weeks of preview performances on Broadway, during which, ideally, the productions and performers develop solid footing before New York audiences.
In hindsight, Bono said, starting preview performances of "Spider-Man" on Broadway in November without an out-of-town tryout was "a terrible decision" that put enormous pressure on Ms. Taymor.
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