nasty_khakis said: "WhizzerMarvin said: "I loved John too...also loved The Flick and of course Gold’s brilliant staging of Fun Home. He and Annie Baker seemed to be a creative match made in heaven.
I hated his production of Glass Menagerie though, and Lear didn’t work for me at all either. Maybe I just don’t like Gold’s take on the classics, but dig his modern work.
With Annie Baker/Fun Home Gold’s direction only enhanced t
EthelMae said: "I don’t really like Shakespeare either but I did love Mr. Gold’s The Glass Menagerie starring Sally Field as well as John starring Georgia Engel and Lois Smith. Iknow I’m in the minority on that. Justdo a search under thoset showsand you’ll find scathing posts here! So, while this King Lear production is getting bad word of mouth already, I kinda still want to see it. I’ve seen it up on TKTS at 50% off already so maybe other discounts wil
Wow, rough week. My Fair Lady I don't think can make it to July if those numbers don't improve. The show doesn't seem cheap to run and I hate to point this out but Laura Benanti's absences (planned and unplanned -- she was out again yesterday) don't help. Also wondering how Waitress, King Kong and Pretty Woman can hang on.
This film totally does not need to be made. The musical is so-so. Close's singing at this point in her life is less than so-so. Nothing will ever compare with the Billy Wilder film. People who loved seeing Glenn Close onstage can keep their memories. Seriously.
Does Laura Linney count? I know she's had extensive Broadway experience but I knew her primarily from her movies and was really impressed with her in The Little Foxes.
Colman was great in The Favourite but I thought if anyone should have won Best Actress in that film it was Rachel Weisz. I thought she really made something three dimensional out of a character who on the surface is just a grasping opportunist.
I've seen some YT videos with Lonny Price talking about the making of this documentary and it seems that over the years many of the OBC have remained extremely close friends. This is the group that also happens to still be close to Hal Prince. Best Worst Thing seems to heavily favor that group over the group that might not be that close to Lonny Price and his OBC friends. I think they're still close -- a group fot eh OBC went to Fiasco's Merrily.
Skip23 said: "poisonivy2 said: "WHoa. Last I checked this was a message board, not a gathering of Musical Theater professional critics and music professors. Everyone's "credential" is that they are fans of musical theater. That's it. A teen getting so excited to see Wicked for the first time has the same "credentials" as anyone else if they bought a ticket and saw a performance. In this case, someone articulated the reasons they felt a performance
WHoa. Last I checked this was a message board, not a gathering of Musical Theater professional critics and music professors. Everyone's "credential" is that they are fans of musical theater. That's it. A teen getting so excited to see Wicked for the first time has the same "credentials" as anyone else if they bought a ticket and saw a performance. In this case, someone articulated the reasons they felt a performance was lacking which by the way is a very common rea
I get what he's trying to say. I think he's trying to say that stripped down musical arrangements don't work for Sondheim's score. I happen to agree with him. His scores have a richness that demand a similar richness in orchestration. I've seen stripped down versions of Sweeney Todd but when you hear the Sweeney Todd OBC (or the wonderful film with Lansbury and O'Hearn) the "chamber" Sweeney's seem bare and wrong.
I know it's closing in April but I'm shocked by the dip in TBV. It was doing decently (if not great) not too long ago, now if these numbers keep up it might not even make it to April.
Ok so ... is this Oklahoma momsical material? My mom loves Oklahoma but prefers old fashioned G-rated productions with good singing and dancing. Is there anything that would make her go "whoa"?
OlBlueEyes said: " But I'd rather switch to a more specific question. To me there is no question that Laura performed the role of Eliza the least like it had been drawn by Shaw and performed by Wendy Hiller and Julie Andrews and Audrey Hepburn. They were lacking in self-confidence, afraid of the "officer" who wastaking down her words, responding to Higgins, "Who'd marry me?" Laura's Eliza knows that she is as good as any other if given the chance.
So I just returned from my seeing MFL with my mom this afternoon. All the principals were on, and my mom is usually very enthusiastic. Indeed she loved Henry Hadden-Patton and Danny Burstein, REALLY loved Christian Dante White, and she really also liked the ending. She said it "made more sense" because "Eliza could never be happy with Higgins." Keep in mind she's very old fashioned and was mildly bothered by the drag dancers in "Get Me to the Church."
