A DOLL'S LIFE to return to NYC — Page 3

I'm even less convinced that the viewer of 1879 thought Nora's fate remained in doubt. But such is Ibsen's brilliance that he does indeed find the universal question: what is a "true" marriage? That every era answers the question somewhat differently makes it no less profound.

As for the musical, yikes, indeed! And the thing is, after all that meandering, the musical tries to end with a sense of ambiguity similar to that of the play. So one is left with a feeling akin to that old lost-in-the-desert melodrama cliche: that one has traveled for hours only to accidentally end up back where one began.

Of course, the intention is that Torvald's "Nora, we need to talk" is actually a very different place than the ending of Ibsen's play, but after 3 hours, it's difficult to notice the distinction. (But that, I believe, is why Prince & Co. had the same actor play Torvald and Nora's primary love interest in the musical, Johan--so that the audience would feel Torvald had, in a sense, taken the journey with his wife.)

Thank you, egghumor. That's just as horrifying as I remember it, but in a different way.

It's possible I've invented my own poster out of my imagination over 30 years, but I would swear the first version I saw was similar, but had an antique (probably Victorian) doll in place of the woman's figure. (The legs and feet were roughly the same, but I recall the doll being a photo rather than a drawing.)

This version looks like Nora was raped by Torvald and tossed near the door, an event I do not remember from Ibsen's play.

ADL seems to have been a "What were they thinking?" project at every step of the way.

Sorry to have gone MIA on you all, but so grateful for the continued conversation happening here! So much information - and so many great discussions.

We'll actually be starting with the door slam, which I think will help everything. And the audience that gets there early, will be able to watch a quiet, realistic look at the final scene of A DOLL'S HOUSE that will lead directly into the slam and the start of the musical.

I'm getting very excited! Yesterday, I got to meet a few of you at the Flea Market - four different people in fact! I'm so glad there are some of you who plan on coming to see the show.

We are thinking about starting a video, photo and written blog. Maybe a tumblr or something like that. We could document the whole process, if people are interested!

And we're still raising funds for the production on IndieGogo -- if any of you want to take a dollar or five or twenty and support the production, we'd be so grateful!

Thanks again to all and keep the discussion going!

Here is our IndieGoGo campaign: http://www.indiegogo.com/nora-in-rep

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Well, that's the part that DID work for me: the spoof of 19th century opera.

For those of you hoping to keep up, I thought I'd post an update!

Our cast was announced exclusively on Playbill a few weeks ago, and you can find all those details here: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/155358-Beautiful-Soup-Will-Present-A-Dolls-House-and-A-Dolls-Life-in-Rep-Casting-Announced

Additionally, we've created a Facebook page and are starting to fill it with videos, our Tumblr feed about the process of reviving the musical and lots of other stuff too! 'Like' it and stay up-to-date here: http://www.facebook.com/NoraInRep

The cast has started to rehearse the musical, which has undergone quite a few changes since it was last on Broadway. There is a beautiful new duet for Johan and Nora. The new ending, while not so spectacular, will take some fine-tuning from a director's glance, but there is a lot of good! The entire "within-a-rehearsal" premise has been cut and the musical now begins with Nora already gone.

There's so much excitement brewing about the production, especially the fact that we are running Ibsen's play in rep with it! We hope a lot of you will come out to see it!

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Isn't the fun in a Doll's House NOT knowing what happens to Nora after she leaves?
Leaving it to the theatre goers imagination is what made it work.



Pedestrian thinkers can say.. oh she comes back a month later.
Freethinkers can say she went off to find her self and became her own person.

The fact is in 2011....
who gives a damn what happened to Nora after she left.

Perhaps she created the women's movement, stood on her own two feet, 111 years go by, took jobs from men and know lives happily ever after with her cat.

Some shows don't need sequels .... "A Doll's House"

Some shows don't need revivals .... "A Doll's Life"

We like to think our artwork (though this is an early mark-up of where we're going with it) isn't as terrifying as the original windowcard...

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Updated On: 11/7/11 at 03:40 PM

By all means, feel free to call me that. This username is so out of date -- I was going through a Michael Riedel phase in my life. Loved theater gossip -- still do, I guess.

Thanks for the kind words. Right now -- this is the overall image. The suitcase, the lower half of Nora, etc. We're doing this classic Americana. 30's/40's/50's -- it will keep the production costs low since we are doing two productions -- and we can afford more rehearsal time, better lighting, more instruments, etc.

Right now, we need to fine-tune the coloring, the text, etc. But I think this really suits Nora -- and since this is, in the end, a study of Nora Helmer, I thought the artwork really suited her.

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I mean -- if you have a foot fetish and the only thing you notice are the feet, sure. But my eyes go to the suitcase.

It's an early draft, but this is the main image.

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So she brings her suitcase to the podiatrist?
Is that what happened to Nora??
What's in the suitcase.. Dr. Scholl's?

sorry I am being a smart ass LOL>

Bump!

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I thought this would be done by now.