I don't think that I've seen a bad production/show of theirs yet. I really loved the play Rabbit Hole. However, the set for that play was by far one of the best sets I have seen from a show, play or musical. I just loved how it moved around from scene to scene the way it did.
And, After Eight, after reading several of your posts where you lament theatre in its current state. I must ask you. Why do you still attended if you know that odds are high that you're not going to walk away having enjoyed your time? You know how a kid realizes what hot is by touching something hot and then making the mental connection that they shouldn't do it again? Well for you, I feel that it's the opposite. You know that you're going to get burned every time, and yet, you still go for it.
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The one MTC production that was such a let-down was the musical "Romantic Poetry" by John Patrick Shanley and Henry Krieger. At least I got to see Patina Renea Miller in it. Pre-"Sister Act" fame.
I'm curious, what was Tales From Red Vienna about and what were its problems?
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I've loved a lot of their shows: Good People, The American Plan, Doubt, and Casa Valentina among them. I still think the latter was woefully underrated. But nothing that they've done (and I've seen) has come close to topping the sheer beauty and devastating emotion of Ruined.
In terms of the worst, We Live Here was pretty bad. And I personally really, really disliked The Country House.
"Tales of Red Vienna" was bad but I loved Nina Arianda and Michael Esper. Tina Benko and Kathleen Chalfant were also very good in their supporting roles.
And I thought the poster was one of the best all year.
I am with you on The Snow Geese. I almost fell asleep seeing this. The best part was the projections of the geese seeming to fly out of the theater. They were the smart one. The SNow Geese was a real snorefest and a bigger turkey than the one in the Thanksgiving Day Parade
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I just plain forgot about THE SNOW GEESE, and it was only a year ago.
GOOD PEOPLE was easily my favorite production of theirs recently, though I quite enjoyed OUTSIDE MULLINGAR and was impressed with THE OTHER PLACE and AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.
ETA: I completely forgot about VENUS IN FUR and TIME STANDS STILL, which I saw after they transferred. I was just thinking about the Friedman, as I haven't seen any of their City Center productions. I've greatly enjoyed the majority of what I've seen of theirs.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE has to be the hands down winner for worst. I recall at intermission an elderly gentleman stand up, rip his playbill in half, toss it in the air, and putter up the aisle muttering "What a waste of time."
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"In theater, the process of it is the experience. Everyone goes through the process, and everyone has the experience together. It doesn't last - only in people's memories and in their hearts. That's the beauty and sadness of it. But that's life - beauty and the sadness. And that is why theater is life." - Sherie Rene Scott