So I just saw Deanna Dunagan et al. in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
So I just saw Deanna Dunagan et al. in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
#1So I just saw Deanna Dunagan et al. in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
Posted: 8/30/10 at 9:30am
I have no idea why they are even performing this in Sydney. But it's mind-blowing. I'm shocked they are even here.
I suppose AUGUST is so 2-years ago for you guys though :P.
I'm guessing other plays aren't this funny/moving/heartbreaking?
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 8/30/10 at 09:30 AM
#2So I just saw Deanna Dunagan et al. in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
Posted: 8/30/10 at 11:02amWhy are you shocked that they're performing it in Sydney?
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#2So I just saw Deanna Dunagan et al. in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
Posted: 8/30/10 at 11:11amThey get to go to Sydney.
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#3So I just saw Deanna Dunagan et al. in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
Posted: 8/30/10 at 12:08pmI didn't see Deanna Dunagan (saw Estelle Parsons instead who was simply brilliant in every way), but I very much remember seeing AUGUST: OC for the first time with that amazing cast, especially Amy Morton who gave what I thought was an epic performance as Barbara. Glad you got to see it and enjoy it, it may have been a few years ago, but I've never forgotten the experience!
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#4So I just saw Deanna Dunagan et al. in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
Posted: 8/30/10 at 7:50pm
August: Osage County is the only evening of theater that I have ever had that was actually worth the $120 I paid for my ticket. I read the play and loved it. Then I saw it and loved it even more.
I wish I had seen Dunagan though. Amy Morton was incredible, and if Dunagan beat her to the Tony I can only imagine how good she was. I saw Estelle Parsons, who was very good, just not the way I had envisioned Violet when I read the play. She was a bit too cuddly I thought, although she absolutely broke my heart in the final moments of the show.
"And then you're gone. And then you're gone. And then you're gone. And then you're gone..."
Chills.
#5So I just saw Deanna Dunagan et al. in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
Posted: 8/30/10 at 8:17pmI saw Dunagan and I saw the opening night of the tour here in Denver with Parsons. Both were very good but i think I enjoyed Dunagan more. As good as the touring cast was on opening night, I bet they were even better as the tour went on.
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#6So I just saw Deanna Dunagan et al. in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
Posted: 8/30/10 at 8:39pmIt is certainly up there among the great plays of all times.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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#7So I just saw Deanna Dunagan et al. in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
Posted: 8/30/10 at 9:51pmI saw the play this past spring in Pittsburgh with Mrs. Parsons. Both she and the actress playing her daughter were amazing! Eat the fish, bitch!
#8So I just saw Deanna Dunagan et al. in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
Posted: 8/30/10 at 10:03pmWas Laurance Lau still with the show? I was surprised when he walked out on stage. I was in the first row(Too close) and just wanted to leap onstage and kidnap him. Had a major crush on him from All My Children. He did a good job in the play.
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#9So I just saw Deanna Dunagan et al. in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
Posted: 8/30/10 at 10:06pmI don't think I will ever understand all the praise for the script of that sitcom on steroids filtered through the Steppenwolf-O-Meter (tm).
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#10So I just saw Deanna Dunagan et al. in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
Posted: 8/31/10 at 10:24pmYes, uncageg, he was in the show. I was second row! It was cool to see a play that close. I prefer a musical from farther back.
