#151
Posted: 7/14/10 at 1:17pm
"It's so hard not to compare to the previous performer..
It's okay. You can name her by name.
It's okay. You can name her by name.
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#152
Posted: 7/14/10 at 1:40pm
I was just on BroadwayOffers to find cheap seats...Looks like both are contracted until November 7th (since ther is a "casting notice" saying the cast after that date is TBD)
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#153
Posted: 7/14/10 at 2:06pm
Eh, I'd rather not. It brings up bad memories! haha!
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#154
Posted: 7/14/10 at 2:28pm
Erin Davie is miscast - that's all I can say.
#155
Posted: 7/14/10 at 2:30pm
Oh, PalJoey, I hope you get to see the show soon - "You Must Meet My Wife" was a true high point. I loved Catherine for the most part, but I always felt that she was working a little too hard for the laughs in that number, resulting in the song not going over as well as it usually does. I don't want to ruin any of her moments/choices for anyone, but Bernadette really restores the song to the hilarious highlight it should be, while totally making it her own. Completely effortless and hilarious. I honestly can't say enough good things about her take on the role... what a triumphant return to Broadway.
#156
Posted: 7/14/10 at 2:34pm
Davie's Charlotte has really grown on me. She's definitely gotten better and funnier. Again, I am so glad "Death" has been restored to a more traditional tempo.
#157
Posted: 7/14/10 at 2:36pm
Sirius Black-
I wouldn't say Erin Davie is miscast, perhaps misdirected.
I wouldn't say Erin Davie is miscast, perhaps misdirected.
#158
Posted: 7/14/10 at 2:37pm
3 hours and 10 minutes? Really?
And I thought it was horrifically long when I saw it at 2:55.
And I thought it was horrifically long when I saw it at 2:55.
#159
Posted: 7/14/10 at 2:56pm
All pacing issues were because of Stritch. She is why the show ran so long, lol.
#160
Posted: 7/14/10 at 3:03pm
I'm sure that the prolonged applause breaks had something to do with it, as well.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#161
Posted: 7/14/10 at 3:09pm
And I'm sure the pacing is already slow to begin with. Yankeefan saw it before Stritch was in the cast.
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#162
Posted: 7/14/10 at 3:25pm
As Michael Bennett said, Angela had the same trouble when previews began. Now, this wasn't a preview, but the top ticket price is the same as it was in previews.
If you paid and were disappointed, that's your opinion. But if you want a solid performance, don't come to the first performance.
If you paid and were disappointed, that's your opinion. But if you want a solid performance, don't come to the first performance.
#163
Posted: 7/14/10 at 3:26pm
Why? Was the first performance free?
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#164
Posted: 7/14/10 at 3:28pm
It's running at 3hrs-ish? Wow. This same production in London came in at just under 2:45 when I saw it. It seemed longer, though...
Updated On: 7/14/10 at 03:28 PM
#165
Posted: 7/14/10 at 4:00pm
Was the first preview free?
#166
Posted: 7/14/10 at 4:03pm
Oh, I'm definitely going to see it again with them! I'm just going to wait until the Elaine settles into the role.
#167
Posted: 7/14/10 at 4:33pm
"Larkin's accent is West Country."
This prompted me to re-listen to her track on the CD and left me wondering the west of which country?
This prompted me to re-listen to her track on the CD and left me wondering the west of which country?
#168
Posted: 7/14/10 at 4:40pm
I really hate when people say you can't judge a performance on the first preview. If they're going to charge $130 to see the show they'd better be damn ready to be judged on it.
#169
Posted: 7/14/10 at 4:53pm
^ Amen. Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! Another thing - back in the day a show had maybe 6, 7 previews at the most....now these shows have, what...30, 40 previews BEFORE the official opening. What is up with that?
#170
Posted: 7/14/10 at 4:57pm
Well...but, back in the day, nearly every show went out of town. So they had a run of shows to fix and such.
I don't necessarily disagree with the whole 'Charge full price, get full critique' mindset. But I actually don't ever fault the actors for that. I fault the producers. My belief is, 'You charge whatever you want...but my performance is where it is on that night. You deal with the fallout.'
I don't necessarily disagree with the whole 'Charge full price, get full critique' mindset. But I actually don't ever fault the actors for that. I fault the producers. My belief is, 'You charge whatever you want...but my performance is where it is on that night. You deal with the fallout.'
#171
Posted: 7/14/10 at 5:01pm
I really hate when people say you can't judge a performance on the first preview.
It comes from an old-school, old-world politeness thing that doesn't exist any more.
Once upon a time, previews were bargain-priced. Theatergoers were, of course, free to say whatever they wanted after the preview, but people were more polite in general then.
Theater professionals, however, considered it a point of honor NEVER to bad-mouth a production after seeing a preview. It was even considered bad form to ATTEND an early preview. Any negative comments you had were to be saved until after opening night. It was a karma thing: You wouldn't want someone to bad-mouth YOUR low-priced early preview, would you? So you didn't bad-mouth theirs.
All that changed when they up-priced the previews. Then the Internet came along, with chat boards.
And that's good, isn't it?
It comes from an old-school, old-world politeness thing that doesn't exist any more.
Once upon a time, previews were bargain-priced. Theatergoers were, of course, free to say whatever they wanted after the preview, but people were more polite in general then.
Theater professionals, however, considered it a point of honor NEVER to bad-mouth a production after seeing a preview. It was even considered bad form to ATTEND an early preview. Any negative comments you had were to be saved until after opening night. It was a karma thing: You wouldn't want someone to bad-mouth YOUR low-priced early preview, would you? So you didn't bad-mouth theirs.
All that changed when they up-priced the previews. Then the Internet came along, with chat boards.
And that's good, isn't it?
Updated On: 7/14/10 at 05:01 PM
#172
Posted: 7/14/10 at 5:01pm
Larkin said on Twitter that her accent is West Country. I am just repeating what she wrote. I am not the productions dialect coach.
#173
Posted: 7/14/10 at 5:04pm
You might have done a better job.
#174
Posted: 7/14/10 at 5:05pm
I've been through West Country in England. Leigh Ann's accent is about as far from West Country as you can get. Try County Kildare mixed with Ellie Mae Clampett.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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