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I appreciated how fully staged this production was, though especially for some of the more involved book scenes I felt like I could see/hear the actors thinking through their lines and blocking (kudos to everyone involved for somehow pulling this off!). Dvorovenko is a beautiful dancer and really quite a good singer, but I found her acting rather exaggerated and awkward, which I would blame more on the director. Snyder sounded absolutely phenomenal - the end of "Love Can't Happen&quo

I'm a little late to the discussion Blaxx, but I went in not knowing much about the show and found myself with similar misgivings as I was watching it. I love the score (it is also GORGEOUSLY orchestrated; a vast improvement over the original cast album in my opinion), the actors were phenomenal, and I found the staging and overall design really fun and interesting to watch. But as you said, the whole "girl throws life away for boy who treats her horribly" plot is problematic, a

I went in knowing next to nothing about the show, and absolutely loved it (although I echo all the suggestions to brush up on Illiad/Odyssey beforehand - even just a read-through of the wikipedia pages will help a lot in keeping a handle on what's happening plot-wise). Admittedly I am a huge fan of Copland and his style of American classical music, and I think much of the experience here is enjoying such a wonderful score sung by an incredibly-sounding cast. Oh what I would do for a recor

Saw the show last night and thought it was fantastic. It's dense, but Rogers deserves a lot of credit for picking which moments to dig in and dramatize, and which moments to summarize and move on. The play is long, but I thought one intermission worked just fine, and the second act didn't feel that long, despite being significantly longer than the first. And as someone who knew almost nothing about the Oslo Accords, any initial confusion I had quickly went away as the play progressed.

I saw the production last night and came away deeply affected. It’s the first production of Glass Menagerie I’ve seen, which, judging from the reviews here, seems to be a good thing (or at least made for a much more satisfying night). Ultimately I think the production doesn’t work for a Broadway theatre, and at times felt like an experiment you might do for a workshop or school assignment…except with a killer cast. I agree with a lot of what Jesse Green wrote in his r