Profile for Guildenstern

I enjoyed the show at Chichester, well enough. In its revised state, I think it is still a bit overlong but its still a fun pastiche show. Although, I'm not sure it stands alone from The Boyfriend to work as an entity, but I say that knowing The Boy Friend.

 

The original cast album is a bit of a strange affair, Patricia Michael, who played Polly, was ill during the recording and Jenny Wren covers for her in a couple of numbers. The Chichester recording is also a good v

I enjoyed this production a great deal more than many of the other productions I have seen of this piece, especially the last two Broadway outings. However, I am not at all convinced of the idea that Sally is necessarily suffering from a mental illness, per se. She has always struck me as being a rather nervy, anxious woman who becomes an unpleasant drunk, with a good line in emotional blackmail and attention seeking. That really came over in Imelda Staunton's performance.

Young Sa

As a long-time lurker, I hesitate to comment on this - I've admired the show, but I'm not sure I've really ever liked it, but I have somehow managed to see most major productions. And with Staunton, I felt, finally, saw a Rose, I understood, there was no pulling of punches with the character -no attempt to make the audience like the character - she's a monster at the beginning of the piece, she ends as one and probably creates, at least, one other in the process. There's n