Angels in America at BAM- Page 2

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/24/14 at 12:34pm

More changes than the ones in the official revisions? I'm just curious.

[indytallguy]

Posted: 10/24/14 at 12:36pm

Some very specific spoilers about it over on Talkin Broadway.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/24/14 at 1:04pm

Huh. Strange. Those are pretty major, IMO.

Anyway, thanks for pointing that out.


link or anyone who wants it

Updated On: 10/24/14 at 01:04 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/24/14 at 1:09pm

According to the Vanity Fair piece, the Angel isn't just male -- he's an E.R. nurse, which I actually think is brilliant. I'm really regretting not flying in to see this. Ugh. Does anyone know if Lincoln Center will film it?

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 10/24/14 at 1:14pm

The Angel always plays The Nurse.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/24/14 at 1:20pm

I know that. I could recite the play in my sleep. But the VF article makes it sound like the Angel always is the nurse, which is very different from double casting where the Angel plays the nurse. Is that not the case?

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 10/24/14 at 1:33pm

For anyone interested and who can afford the price tag, there are several orchestra seats available for tonight.

Make me jealous.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 10/25/14 at 1:25am

Just got back from tonight's performance- a million thanks to the lovely man who gave me his unused ticket as I waited in the standby line!


This has been my favorite play for a very long time, and I was so thrilled to finally see a production of it, so much so that I may have teared up a little when the Rabbi (played by the brilliant Marieke Heebink) came out to give his opening speech. Obviously, I have nothing to compare it to, but I thought this was a stunning production. True, it moves very quickly, which is occasionally a detriment in Millenium Approaches since so much is built up within that play, but I thought the speed worked perfectly for Perestroika. On the page, I've never enjoyed Perestroika as much as the first play, but here I was entirely invested the whole way through. This was also helped by some of the cuts, almost none of which (with one major exception) were missed by me.

Across the board, the actors were all terrific- in addition to the aforementioned Heebink, I was particularly impressed with Eelco Smits, Roeland Fernhout, and Hans Kesting, who played Prior, Belize, and Roy, respectively. Just as I felt at Ivo van Hove's production of The Little Foxes a few years earlier, this production was so terrifically done that I felt myself forgetting to breathe because I was so engaged with the performance. This is really a wonderful, wonderful production, and if you can, try and scrounge up a ticket for tomorrow. It's very much worth the time.

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 10/25/14 at 10:14am

I was very disappointed by the production, particularly so as I'm a big fan of Ivo's. I didn't find that the bare production at all served the play ( Brantley's effusive review is beyond me...) and I missed hearing Kushner's marvelous words.

I had incredibly high hopes for this production. Perhaps they were too high.

[Jon_sense]

Posted: 10/25/14 at 11:12am

Play Esq, you cite as the source of your disappointment the spare production and not hearing Kushner's words. Did you not know the production would be in Dutch?
As for the spareness, I find it odd that there's been so much coverage of this aspect. Many productions have taken this approach, including the one that put it most on the tap, Declan Donnelan's, at the National w Daniel Craig and Henry Goodman, which pre-dated the Bwy.epic approach.

[theatregoer3]

Posted: 10/25/14 at 11:16am

Was there last night. Mr. Kushner was in the audience which was a treat.

While I also teared up during the opening monologue it did take me a while to get into this interpretation. Some plot points seemed muddled. I thought this was a very dark and scary version of the piece. It gave one a sense that all of the characters were truly alone in the world. The terrifying movement between the angel and Prior at the end of act one really drove that home.

My boyfriend - who amazingly enough has never seen or read the piece - found it to be moving but truly scary. I think the element of Luis leaving Prior and Joe leaving Buddy was given particular emphasis here.

I recommend this solely on the fact that I didn't think this piece left much room for wild interpretation but I was proven wrong. It's made me look at this amazing play in a whole new light and that's definitely with the cost of a ticket.