I think whole productions look beautiful, if a tad over designed. I'd take over our the very under designed B'way revival. I get the Chekhovian approach and pacing, but why must everyone wear black in Act I?
I didn't realize Isaac Mizrahi directed stage productions, I take it Scarlett Johansson won't be making an appearance
I like the design, how I wish the Broadway revival had something similar to this. I agree with you, Brick, "under-designed" is an excellent way to describe the current revival. And yes, the suit Fredrick is wearing in the original post looks very much like the one Hanson wears. I'd have loved to see Catherine Zeta-Jones in the Desiree costumes as beautiful as she manages to look in the Nunn production.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
"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
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
I always love Opera Theatre St. Louis' productions, and I can't WAIT to see this next week! I'm also glad I saw the revival on my recent trip to NYC, since I think Isaac's version will be anything but "traditional".
The Overture is part of the show, people. Please shut your pie hole.
A far cry from that funereal and claustrophobic design disaster on Broadway. The more I see photos of other productions, the more I grow to hate the look of the revival.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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A discussion nearly turned into a fisticuffs last night with a man who lives in my building over the "beauty" of the current production. He began by saying "THIS is how Might Music should be done" and ended by admitting he had never seen the original.
I actually am kind of feeling that concept. Although you're spot on with the Telephone Hour reference.
I can't decide if I completely love the Mizrahi designs, but I do like it more than the current revival.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
Most people who love the look of the revival have never seen another production of Night Music on stage.
And they either can't or won't comprehend why many of us don't love the look of the current revival.
"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