GIRL (Returns) FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY Performances - Page 3

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 6/8/22 at 10:06pm

I was at the show tonight and everyone was on! 

[quizking101]

Posted: 6/8/22 at 11:46pm

I was also there for my fifth and final visit.

The show remains in great shape and this was the largest audience I had ever seen for the show in all the times I’ve gone. There were some sound mixing and mic issues though.

Mare was in tonight, although she didn’t seem to be in the strongest voice, especially during “Rolling Stone”. She still, however, nails the acting aspect DOWN and I still have my money on her for the Tony.

The highlight of the night was Jeanette Bayardelle. She was EATING EVERYTHING UP and I don’t think I’ve heard her in stronger voice. She even got mid-song applause as she tore into the bridge of “True Love Tends To Forget”. One goof I did notice was that she started the show in her natural hair and that she didn’t have her wig on until about 20-ish minutes into the show when she had a moment offstage, I guess, to put it on

[BorisTomashevsky]

Posted: 6/18/22 at 9:02am

Saw this again last night (fourth time) and will go again this weekend. I can’t get enough of it. If you’re able to see this and choose not to, I don’t know what to tell ya.

Performances were brilliant as always.

Craig Bierko has made Mr Burke just heartbreaking and so sympathetic with great depth. It feels like a leading role now. Marc was excellent. Craig is astonishing. The scene prior to Duquesne Whistle was a real rollercoaster of emotions and the slow reveal was perfectly done and you could see Mr Burke’s denial turn to helpless admittance of the deed. 
 

And then Duquesne Whistle took the roof of the theatre. Todd Almond is always wonderful but he soared even higher than that. Those ten minutes of scene into song are probably the greatest theatrical moment I’ve seen in my life. John Schiappa now plays the drums for the song and he and Todd shared a nice “look” when the tempo kicked in.  
 

I’ll be very sad to see this go. I feel we’re losing something very dear. 

Updated On: 6/18/22 at 09:02 AM

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 6/18/22 at 9:22am

BorisTomashevsky said: "Saw this again last night (fourth time) and will go again this weekend. I can’t get enough of it. If you’re able to see this and choose not to, I don’t know what to tell ya.

Performances were brilliant as always.

Craig Bierko has made Mr Burke just heartbreaking and so sympathetic with great depth. It feels like a leading role now. Marc was excellent. Craig is astonishing. The scene prior to Duquesne Whistle was a real rollercoaster of emotions and the slow reveal was perfectly done and you could see Mr Burke’s denial turn to helpless admittance of the deed.


And then Duquesne Whistle took the roof of the theatre. Todd Almond is always wonderful but he soared even higher than that. Those ten minutes of scene into song are probably the greatest theatrical moment I’ve seen in my life. John Schiappa now plays the drums for the song and he and Todd shared a nice “look” when the tempo kicked in.


I’ll be very sad to see this go. I feel we’re I’m losing something very dear."

I’ll be very sad to see this go as well. I find Luba heartbreaking too. Almost reminds me of a Grisabella-type. Hanging on to her last shards of glamour. 
 

Now that the Tonys are over I can imagine the cast is ready for some real closure and some rest. 
 

I hope the pro-shot finds a distributor soon. 

 

[Auggie27]

Posted: 6/18/22 at 10:48am

I agree wholeheartedly with Boris. I went back for my 4th time at the Wednesday matinee. Smallish house -- the mezz was spotty -- but the show was pristine, the music probably in peak form. Winningham one last time still broke me. It's a powerfully unfettered performance, so stripped bare, the two solos used to explore what this woman can't speak or probably even think clearly. Her voice was perfection this week, that wry take on the lyrics so uniquely hers. The full company is one of the best of this or any season, and I agree that Bierko is superb. His drunkenness was so eerily real it made the second act scene's heartbreaking reveals twice as harrowing. I loved Kudisch, but found something new in the sequence with Bierko. He seems a fully emptied man, less vital and more pitiable. He has that joker-ish performative smile that masks a well of deep pain, and he the expert Mason are entirely persuasive as this damaged couple.

Four times, and I'm still not sure exactly how this piece works its unique magic. Its mysteries -- the fusion of these songs in striking ways -- remain part of its appeal. 

[dramamama611]

Posted: 6/18/22 at 1:10pm

I was at the Weds matinee as well, played hooky from work and hoofed it down from Boston. Boy, am I glad I did!

I was so very impressed with the performances, so brilliant so nuanced...so much dedication.  It's one of those shows that lingers with you, even now several days later. I look forward to getting a copy of the libretto to take a deep dive.

 

This is easily in my top 3 of the season that has just ended: Company, GFNC and Suffs.

 

A shame it fidnt find the necessary audience.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 6/19/22 at 6:46am

The script of the book -- which reads very much like a play with a handful of songs -- was published in the UK and (apparently simultaneously) in the US in 2017. I have it.  You can get it via Amazon. Some of the additions for Toronto and the US are missing ("chicken" was added before "stew," more dialog in the Nick-Marianne scene) but it's mostly the exact same story, last song -- added for Broadway -- excepted. It's a very lean libretto as the production presents, but the text explains its conceits and conventions -- a radio broadcast. I know several people who don't quite get the broadcast premise.

[bwaylyric]

Posted: 6/19/22 at 9:51am

Farewell to the cast of GFTNC!  Undeniably one of the most deeply moving and glorious shows on Broadway. Congrats to Simon Hale on his much-deserved Tony for orchestrations. Too bad it couldn’t gain a much larger audience, but I’m happy it was preserved on video. I hope to see it on the screen very soon. 

[MTfreak14!]

Posted: 6/1/23 at 2:04pm

gosh, I miss this show!

[TBone]

Posted: 6/1/23 at 2:10pm

MTfreak14! said: "gosh, I miss this show!"

Me too! I’ve been listening to the cast recording a lot this week and was hoping we’d get some news about the pro-shot soon.