Raul Julia

[keen on kean]

Channel 13 tonight (9/13) is showing a 90 minute bio of the late wonderful Raul Julia, 9 to 10:30 EDT.

[A Director]

I watched.  It is wonderful!

[SmoothLover]

I liked it as well. It was rich with clips the best being footage of The Taming of the Shrew with Meryl Streep. After watching I immediately went online and bought the Three Penny Opera poster with his image.

[keen on kean]

I, too, enjoyed it, although I thought the "seven ages of man" use was just a little tortured.

I saw Raul Julia as Edmund in KING LEAR, and I have never seen anyone else come even close to his blend of evil and seductiveness.

I wish that i had seen him in NINE, as that seems like a great part for him.

[SmoothLover]

I do not know if my sound was bad but he sounded off pitch in the La Mancha clips. I wish I had been able to see him in a stage production.

[keen on kean]

I saw him in MAN OF LA MANCHA. I did not think the role suited him or his voice, as much as he clearly wanted to do the role.

[joevitus]

Hoping I get to see this at some point. What a performer! You can watch all of his performance in Nine on YouTube. 

[keen on kean]

joevitus said: "Hoping I get to see this at some point. What a performer! You can watch all of his performance in Nine on YouTube."

Thanks! I only wish there was more of the SHREW available, too.

[Melissa25]

Really enjoyed watching this Raul Julia bio. It is available here http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/raul-julia-the-worlds-a-stage-about/11612/

 

[SmoothLover]

keen on kean said: "joevitus said: "Hoping I get to see this at some point. What a performer! You can watch all of his performance in Nine on YouTube."

Thanks! I only wish there was more of the SHREW available, too."

I read a very good article in The New Yorker about the documentary and it said that the entire video of The Taming of the Shrew is available at the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center NYC.

 

[joevitus]

SmoothLover said: "keen on kean said: "joevitus said: "Hoping I get to see this at some point. What a performer! You can watch all of his performance in Nine on YouTube."

Thanks! I only wish there was more of the SHREW available, too."

I read a very good article in The New Yorker about the documentary and it said that the entire video of Taking of the Shrew is available at the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center NYC.

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I thought you couldn't watch shows in the LIbrary's collection without permission from the people who produced a givenb show (was going to say "authors," but obviously in this case that would be ludicrous).

 

[markypoo]

It'll be 42 years ago tomorrow that I saw him in a production of Old Times in Lake Forest, IL.
Costarring Irene Worth and Beatrice Straight!

[Dollypop]

I thought he was woefully miscast as Othello in Central Park. His sing-songy delivery of lines was downright amateurish.

[NJGUY]

One of those actors who totally commanded the stage.  Dracula, Betrayal, Design for living were performances that I will never forget.  Yet NINE topped it all.  Forty years later I remember him working his fanny off, enjoying himself,owing the stage, as I sat mesmerized from the last row of the 46th Street theater

[SmoothLover]

 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-blazing-path-and-legacy-of-raul-julia

 

The New Yorker article about what is available at the Performing Arts Library.