Poor_Bway_Tixbuyer
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#1Coast of Utopia
Posted: 11/21/06 at 8:02pmHas anyone seen Coast of Utopia Part 1? I've been undecided about buying tix b/c it's so long and I know nothing about Russian history, but it has such a great cast. I'm afraid if I don't buy tix, it will get a good review Monday and sell out b/c so few shows are left of Part 1. What do you think?
#1re: Coast of Utopia
Posted: 11/21/06 at 8:12pmThe day the reviews for the first part come out, the entire run of all three parts is going to sell out. So get your tickets now.
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"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#2re: Coast of Utopia
Posted: 11/21/06 at 8:18pmI just saw the Sunday matinee and thought it was fantastic. Great acting, especially from Billy Crudup. The staging and design aspects are just beautiful. I highly recommend this.
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#3re: Coast of Utopia
Posted: 11/21/06 at 11:04pmI just bought my student tickets to each performance. I am so excited about this. it sounds fantastic!
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#4re: Coast of Utopia
Posted: 11/21/06 at 11:09pm
Do a search and check out threads on this that started around 16/17 October. A bunch of stuff was written when it opened in previews.
In the end, see it. And, get ready for SHIPWRECK and SALVAGE, the second and third installments of Stoppard's trilogy.
#5re: Coast of Utopia
Posted: 11/21/06 at 11:14pmVoyage was MINDBLOWING. Amazing.
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jennite
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#6re: Coast of Utopia
Posted: 11/22/06 at 1:27am
Check out our archives at the Jennifer Ehle fanblog http://jenniferehle.blogspot.com - we've got a gazillion reviews and stuff about Utopia. Some people have said that they were fine going to see the show without any background knowledge. The LCT review http://www.lctreview.org/article.cfm?id_issue=36549392 and the dramaturg's notes http://lct.org/coast/event_detail_explore.cfm?section=notes might be enough.
Btw just read on All That Chat that the Nov 27th performance of Voyage is on TDF.
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#7re: Coast of Utopia
Posted: 11/22/06 at 5:16amYou don't have to go in knowing anything. When I saw it about a week ago they give you the dramaturg's notes on it and a synopsis of Voyage in your playbill so you can just read that if you want the background- it will definitely help.
And hang on, when did you win the discus?
#8re: Coast of Utopia
Posted: 11/22/06 at 12:56pmI saw it. It seems like months and months since I saw it, but I thought it was amazing and loved every second of it. Buy your tickets now.
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#9re: Coast of Utopia
Posted: 11/22/06 at 2:43pmSeen it twice already; am going to opening night on Monday. It's absolutely brilliant. And, to answer your other question, you don't have to be a Russian scholar by any means to understand the show's content.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
