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BENT - Mark Taper Forum
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#50BENT - Mark Taper Forum
Posted: 7/28/15 at 3:58pm
What types of scenes?
nudity doesn't make me squirm- just would determine who I invite to attend with me
#51BENT - Mark Taper Forum
Posted: 7/28/15 at 4:30pm
The only nudity is in the first 5 minutes. When the sexist guy wakes up and walks around naked and his penis is so huge. That's it. And you WILL get turned on by the 'sex scene' in act 2. So don't be late.
#52BENT - Mark Taper Forum
Posted: 7/28/15 at 8:07pm
The nudity last less than five minutes if even that...
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
Tazber's: Reply to
Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
BWNUT
Featured Actor Joined: 9/26/07
#53BENT - Mark Taper Forum
Posted: 7/28/15 at 8:14pm
**** SPOILERS ****
Aside from the nudity, there is throat slashing, whipping, and screaming from torture offstage. There is graphic description of necrophilia. But amidst all that are unexpected bursts of humor.
Updated On: 7/28/15 at 08:14 PM#54BENT - Mark Taper Forum
Posted: 7/28/15 at 8:17pm
I think the above post should come with a spoiler warning
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
Tazber's: Reply to
Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
#55BENT - Mark Taper Forum
Posted: 7/28/15 at 9:57pm
As someone who was incredibly impressed by the broadway production back in '79, I thought the play at the Taper the other night was every bit its equal if not better.
Superb acting across the board, though special mention must go to... (no not Tom Berklund, you nitwits)... Charlie Hofheimer, who's astonishing portrayal of Horst in Act II moves the play to a whole other level of richness.
Great staging and superb design work by Beowulf Boritt working with the most basic tools to bring us to the core of the story. The final image onstage surpasses anything in the original broadway design. Utterly simple and devastating.
For all that, I've gotta say that the script can sometimes be a strange animal-- all sitcom jollity in scene I, then the radical about-face in tone that leads inexorably to Dachau. By Act II the dialogue has turned abstract and almost Becket-like in its rhythms and repetitions. But boy, those two scenes that stand in for love scenes that anchor Act II-- Just spectacular writing married to brilliant delivery. Anyone within a 100 mile radius of the Mark Taper should be here to see what theater can be like at its absolute best.
Updated On: 7/28/15 at 09:57 PM
BWNUT
Featured Actor Joined: 9/26/07
#56BENT - Mark Taper Forum
Posted: 7/29/15 at 1:32am
Looks like critics agree with you, Someone. Positive to raves according to BWW Review Roundup anyway. Well deserved.
