I saw this show for the first time two weeks ago, at the Wednesday matinee. The matinee alternate for Jerry was out; the alternate for the alternate was atrocious. No voice and not even that charismatic a dancer. Leanne Cope's voice is the size of a gnat, and not particularly pleasant, but at least she only sings one song. She's obviously a dancer first, and her dancing is quite good, but her role seemed smaller than it should be. Shame that Jill Paice is wasted in a nothing part. Veanne Cox was out. The ensemble seemed to be giving it about 75%, and that's me being generous. I was scratching my head as to how it made it this long.
"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
Updated On: 10/5/16 at 02:42 PM
