This is disappointing. I've planned a trip around this production based on the announced April-June run. I was slightly worried there might be some sort of scheduling nonsense but I never imagined it would only run 5 weeks. Oof. Should have known better I suppose. But. Still. Oof.
"To be fair, I feel as if he technically didn't write this play. Maybe reorganized some interviews with some staging, but I wouldn't claim it as written."
It's pretty tightly constructed. Often with cuts mid-sentence. The interviews were constructed at his insistence. In the style he devised. And there's more to the play than just the interviews. I think he very much wrote it... or if you want to fuss... "authored" it.
If this does come to NYC, I’d be surprised I’d they don’t switch out some of the actresses for bigger names.
I feel like this suggestion doesn't understand the show. It's an ensemble in the truest sense of the word. Everybody gets one song and nobody stands above the others. It would upset the balance of the show to have "names" in some parts and not in others. AND it looks to be a pretty hard show to perform. LOTS of dan
Choir Jun 10
2019, 11:07:25 PM
It’s absolutely not used that way here in Chicago... and frankly I’ve never heard it used that way anywhere else (though anything is possible). Even Speakeasy Stage doesn’t use that terminology... for this production or any other that fits your definition. They say “New England premiere” or “First post-broadway production.”
Navy Pier is a tourist trap with very little to offer as far as worthwhile activities... HOWEVER... there are really lovely views and you can buy a Rainbow Cone and walk around the pier if you get there an hour or so before. And if it's a nice day and you like ice cream you really SHOULD get a Rainbow Cone and take in the views for an hour or so.
Robert Markus is a good actor and phenomenal singer but he looks like a conventionally attractive 40 year old. And I think an audience accepting Evan's choices is already an iffy situation going in. I imagine the casting doesn't help.
Also. I'm not totally sure Dear Evan Hansen is a destination show. I certainly wouldn't cross provinces to see a show about suicide.
The Winter's Tale at Goodman is FANTASTIC. I'm a big fan of the play... in that I'm picky not that I love all productions... and it's the best version of the many versions I've seen. However. It's still The Winter's Tale.
Ms. Blakk, given who's involved should be really fantastic.
MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN at Lookingglass theater should be... something. I've not seen it yet... and it might be weird... but it'll be memor
King Lear is one of the best things I've seen in a lifetime of theatergoing. Not just Jackson but the whole thing. I get why people don't like it... but if you have a slot and have the desire I wouldn't miss it. I believe it will be talked about for much longer than it's critics think.
King Kong is quite a spectacle. I didn't like it. I'm surprised the book and music could be quite as awful as they are... given all the development the show went through. Bu
Regarding the Post review... I find a lot of gay theater folk are quite defensive or dismissive of any implication of "liberal" politics in their beloved musicals because it smashes the denial that their lifestyle is diametrically opposed to who they vote for... "HOW DARE YOU NOT CHANGE THE SCRIPT OF A CLASSIC, APOLITICAL MUSICAL AND STILL MAKE ME UNCOMFORTABLE!" It's just not possible to accept that those politics have always been present, just easier
There's a lot more narrative in Lizzie... with dialogue and stuff... but Six is essentially a rock concert with isolated songs and very little narrative apart from that. Lizzie uses a concert-like format to tell their story but Six feels like an actual concert with the Six being the band you're seeing.
Lizzie is more "rock" music tho it's really rock by way of broadway. Six is pop music... and fairly representative of
I don't really understand this notion that the direction somehow gets in the way. If anything, the direction strips away essentially everything except the text. Certainly there's unconventional casting, but I'm not sure how that gets in the way of the text. The text is almost always delivered clearly and without much modification. If it's a slog it's Shakespeare's fault.
To be honest... I'm not sure there are a ton of "gimmicks" so much as the main gimmick that strips the production of basically any trapping and just lets the actors act. The stage is a gold room (that reminded me much more of Trump Tower than it did The Hague) that is adorned with stuff but the stuff doesn't have much effect on what the actors are doing. It may have well been set on a bare stage... though I liked the set and the &q
Oh dear. I'm here for the length. King Lear is long. It's supposed to be long. And there's a LOT that happens. And you're supposed to be exhausted at the end. But. One set... that seems cruel.
