ACL2006 said: "Curious about the Gala performance on Wednesday @ 6pm? Tickets are available and appear to be the cheapest. It also fits best into my schedule for that week. Is there a dress code for this performance? Speeches? What should I expect for a Gala performance?"
I went to the Gala performance of Brigadoon last year and there were a few speeches beforehand but it was business as usual.
I was there yesterday and overall really enjoyed both plays and the experience. The acting was just absolutely phenomenal from all six actors, however Edmund Donovan was the real standout (I was completely unfamiliar with him before this.) If you get the opportunity to see this, definitely go.
I didn't care for this at all. I thought Close was chewing the scenery, and it all felt so inessential. I don't think it did anything to shed light on the Joan of Arc story, and it just felt like Isabelle was reacting to things for the whole 2 hours.
jbird5 said: "I’m not sure that’s 100% true. I think it’s a choice she made, or rather it’s who she is. She just preferred her work life to family life. It could have been about a man, but then it wouldn’t exactly be newsworthy."
Overall I really liked it, and appreciated Fish's choices even if I didn't love them all. I thought the cast was excellent all-around, and the whole production made the show fresh (unlike that recent Carousel revival.)
I did not care for the dream ballet, and still don't really know what to make of it. If you don't know the musical, you're going to be really, really confused as to what is suddenly happening.
The show runs almost 3 hours and I felt it, sitting
LarryD2 said: "Channing is the reason to see the show -- she's commanding and captivating, as usual. Dancy also turns in a good performance. I found the play itself questionable, particularly in that it seems to suggest that the main character's dedication to her career and her activism was a vice. It seemed kind of dated and misogynist, since I can't imagine the same set of situations being written as a play about a male protagonist."
If you're seeing this for Stockard Channing, you won't be disappointed but the play itself isn't too great. It is a run of the mill "family gathers, secrets revealed" play that really amounts to nothing. Nothing is very surprising, and at the end, all of the drama felt unearned. It could be 90 minutes but it runs 2:20.
Overall I enjoyed it, and though it was very funny. Jones, Radcliffe, and Cannavale are all excellent, and definitely elevate the material. It's not very deep, and feels like an episode of television as opposed to a fleshed out, developed play. Still, I recommend it because it's enjoyable and short and it's a joy to see the cast on stage.
I actually enjoyed Amelie. It's not perfect, and it kind of missed the tone of the movie but it was sweet nonetheless. I still listen to a bit of the cast recording regularly.
SomethingPeculiar said: "I wonder if the combination of Conor McPherson, Bob Dylan, and actorsCiaran Hinds and Shirley Henderson meant more in London? Hinds and Henderson probably mean more in the West End than any of the Broadway talents in the US production, and McPherson is very likely a bigger draw in the UK."
I also wonder if they would replace Bogardus with a bigger name (not that they should, even though I thought he was the weakest link) since the role doesn&
