Sondheim / Drive-in Assassins?

[macbeth]

Posted: 10/2/20 at 7:21am

Did anyone go  to this? I don't quite understand how the actors were also in cars? I'm definitely intrigued though. 

https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/arts-leisure/article/Curtain-Call-Composer-Stephen-Sondheim-attends-15605743.php?fbclid=IwAR25ixsF1Hx-qeq5lR0z_0rjs3E12thQsa75xFZhdv6JyuoEyDpNs0pHWbo

[Owen22]

Posted: 10/2/20 at 11:05am

I love that the guy fearlessly ventured outside of his Turtle Bay townhouse! At his age he is the most vulnerable.

[seymour krelborn]

Posted: 10/2/20 at 11:54am

Owen22 - It was great. They weren't all in cars. Each character was socially distanced around the drive in in various 'pods' of sorts. Byck was in the back of a pickup truck, as was Sarah Jane moore and a few others.  Guieteau was on a moving staircase, Zangara was sitting in his electric chair, The balladeer was on a stage. All of it being filmed and projected up on the drive in screen in real time. There  are pics here - https://www.facebook.com/sawilcox/posts/10158793808401550

 

Macbeth - he has a house very near the drive in itself, so my guess is it was a short trip for him.

 

[alexsunny]

Posted: 10/4/20 at 8:23am

That said, once previews of a new show are over, I've never understood why shows don't list a songs, unless it's something like Passion or Les Mis (almost entirely sung with https://ometv.onl/ https://chatroulette.top/ https://omegle.wtf/ https://bazoocam.cam/ a lot of interstitial songs) or something involving spoilers. There's the old Marvin Hamlisch anecdote about how the Chorus Line song was originally titled "T!ts and A$s," and it never got much of a laugh because they gave away the punchline in the playbill; title was changed to "Dance: Ten, Looks: Three" and it got the laugh. Updated On: 10/8/20 at 08:23 AM

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 10/4/20 at 9:12am

Damn it! Would have so gone to this! It’s 20 minutes away from my home! Anyone know if there are any plans to do this again and/or any other productions on the horizon?

[seymour krelborn]

Posted: 10/5/20 at 10:19am

Play Esq - This was a one night remounting of a full 2015 production that ran for a month at The Warner theater in Torrington. The director is shopping options to bring this socially distanced staging other places in the Litchfield/Fairfield County areas. Fingers crossed!

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 10/5/20 at 1:26pm

Thanks for the heads up!!!! If you hear about this developing further, please do post here!