Anyone in DC See "The History Boys" Yet?

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Anyone in DC See "The History Boys" Yet?

Posted: 3/30/08 at 12:56pm

Apparently it's playing at The Studio Theatre, has anyone gone and seen it yet? What's the staging like? I can imagine most productions will simply copy Hytner's in some way or another, it's pretty iconic at this point.

If anyone's seen it, please weigh in! I'm dying to know how it is!

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

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Posted: 3/30/08 at 8:36pm

It just started this week. A friend of mine saw it this afternoon, I'll ask him what he thought.

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Posted: 3/30/08 at 8:45pm

They are doing it in BOSTON too at SpeakEasy.

J*

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Posted: 4/3/08 at 2:37pm

I am going on Sunday. ATC has a review up that discusses the staging.

"Why do you care what people might say? Why try to fit into their design?" (Side Show)

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Posted: 4/3/08 at 6:03pm

ooh atc is such a pain to navigate!

well report back, KC

have you seen it Jay?

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

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Posted: 4/3/08 at 8:19pm

No. Though Ive seen the Broadway production..

here's the artwork for the Boston's SpeakEasy:
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Posted: 4/11/08 at 9:57pm

I don't guess this really counts - but I saw the film, and I didn't care for it. I could never see the focus in the plot. Maybe it's something that you have to see on stage. I ANTICIPATED the movie, no doubt - but I was dissapointed... a bit. I didn't HATE it.

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Posted: 4/11/08 at 11:20pm

Chason,

The film can't hold a candle to the show. It isn't fair to fully judge the work based on how the movie is.

"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear" Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll

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Posted: 4/12/08 at 2:33pm

Agreed Winston. The film is like watching other people orgasm while the stage show is actually having the orgasm.

that was probably a bad analogy.

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

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