The Light in the Piazza at South Coast Rep- Page 2
The Light in the Piazza at South Coast Rep
#25The Light in the Piazza at South Coast Rep
Posted: 2/12/14 at 2:15pm
Did they change the naked man statue to a half naked woman? Blasphemy. It's the land of naked marble boys!
No they didn't. Clara still fondles the genitals getting laughter from the audience in the appropriate scene.
#26The Light in the Piazza at South Coast Rep
Posted: 2/12/14 at 7:12pm
Matthew Morrison was only in Piazza for about 5.5 months, so about 200 performances. If he missed 60, that's pretty bad. I wonder if he missed a lot in South Pacific, too.
What did David Burnham say about why he left NYC and went back to the farm?
"What was the name of that cheese that I like?"
"you can't run away forever...but there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start"
"well I hope and I pray, that maybe someday, you'll walk in the room with my heart"
#27The Light in the Piazza at South Coast Rep
Posted: 2/12/14 at 7:52pm
What did David Burnham say about why he left NYC and went back to the farm?
Actually that was coming off of his big success that he had while starring in the Canadian version of Joseph. After it closed he moved to NYC and had no luck in getting jobs only the usual polite "Thank you for coming". After months of rejections he returned to California when his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer to spend time with her before she passed. While there he honed his craft taking singing and acting lessons and performing in SoCal theatres. When he returned to NYC for a 2nd time he had much better results.
BewareTheUndertoad
Chorus Member Joined: 4/26/13
#28The Light in the Piazza at South Coast Rep
Posted: 2/14/14 at 12:04pm
You know how you can put a piece of chocolate in your mouth and not chew at all and just let it melt and your mouth absorbs it slowly and you enjoy the subtleties of the taste so much more deeply than if you just chewed it and wolfed it down? Yeah, that's what this production was like.
I only had two complaints. One is quite small and one is quite large.
The small one? While the costumes were absolutely gorgeous, I thought the design choice of having Clara and Margaret matching outfits the entire time to be very heavy handed. Communicating their parallel journeys through their clothes is a wonderful thought but it could have been done with much more subtlety.
The large one is one that, unfortunately, has limited almost every large musical I've seen in the past few years: the sound design. It was just awful. We've got these incredible voices in an intimate theatre and there was no life to the sound. It was all over mixed, resulting in a flat, dead sound. This music and those voices should wash over you but instead it just hits you like a wall. They might as well have been singing to tracks and lip synching for all the life the sound design brought to the production.
Aside from these two complaints, it was a perfect evening in the theatre. I even gave it a standing O!
