A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight...(review updates here)- Page 7

[CarlosAlberto]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#150

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.

[quizking101]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#151

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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[GYPSY1527]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#152

Posted: 7/14/10 at 2:06pm

Eh, I'd rather not. It brings up bad memories! haha!

Happy...Everything! Kaye Thompson

[Sirius Black]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#153

Posted: 7/14/10 at 2:28pm

Erin Davie is miscast - that's all I can say.

[callitquits]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#154

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.

[ljay889]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#155

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.

[americanboy99]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#156

Posted: 7/14/10 at 2:36pm

Sirius Black-

I wouldn't say Erin Davie is miscast, perhaps misdirected.

[Yankeefan007]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#157

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.

[ljay889]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#158

Posted: 7/14/10 at 2:56pm

All pacing issues were because of Stritch. She is why the show ran so long, lol.

[AC126748]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#159

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

[givesmevoice]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#160

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.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[Brick]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#161

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.

[DAME]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#162

Posted: 7/14/10 at 3:26pm

Why? Was the first performance free?

HUSSY POWER! ------ HUSSY POWER!

[MariusPontmercy]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#163

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

[Brick]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#164

Posted: 7/14/10 at 4:00pm

Was the first preview free?

[PalJoey]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#165

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.

[Scripps2]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#166

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?

[Jordan Catalano]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#167

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.

[CarlosAlberto]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#168

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?

[SonofRobbieJ]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#169

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.'

[PalJoey]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#170

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?

Updated On: 7/14/10 at 05:01 PM

[ljay889]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#171

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.

[PalJoey]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#172

Posted: 7/14/10 at 5:04pm

You might have done a better job.

[AC126748]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#173

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

[Yankeefan007]

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC'S reopening tonight....#174

Posted: 7/14/10 at 5:08pm

Dr. Kildare?