Cate Blanchett as Margo Channing in ALL ABOUT EVE- Page 2

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 4/29/17 at 1:30pm

MrsSallyAdams said: "I saw a concert of Applause last year and there is a big structural problem. Margo doesn't carry the story yet the musical keeps her onstage with nothing to do.

Margo carries the first half of the film. Once Eve takes her part her story is done. The focus shifts to Eve's blackmail of Karen and her *** spoiler? *** clash with Addison DeWitt. Margo doesn't confront her again or plan any sort of revenge.

In Applause we keep going back to scenes of Margo arguing with Bill in her apartment. Bacall never got a duet with Penny Fuller. She had to settle for the bland "One of a Kind" and the terrible "Something Greater."

I'll be curious to see if the new play gives Blanchett more to do or if it takes the spotlight off of her for the final scenes.

 

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I too saw a concert version about 10 years ago and your analysis is spot on. (Though I think there are plenty of poorer songs in the show than "Something Greater".)

I would only add that in 2017-18, are we still asking whether a woman can have a career and a successful marriage? That dramatic question was pretty creaky even when APPLAUSE first opened.

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 10/16/17 at 11:44pm

Is this still happening? I've been waiting for tickets to go on sale.

[sinister teashop]

Posted: 10/17/17 at 12:05am

Meh, more interested in seeing Ivo van Hove's evisceration of Ayn Rand's THE FOUNTAINHEAD at BAM in November.

Updated On: 10/17/17 at 12:05 AM

[frannygreenglass]

Posted: 10/17/17 at 11:41am

Saoirse Ronan as Eve?

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow2]

Posted: 10/17/17 at 11:48am

I'm pretty in love with this idea. I'm not usually one for movie adaptations for stage (this seems to be that even if the film itself was adapted from the play The Wisdom of Eve which was an adaptation of the short story), especially with five-star near-perfect films, but for some reason, this one is seriously interesting to me.

[Jshan05]

Posted: 10/23/17 at 1:22am

Hoping this falls during my spring break from school. Would love any updates!

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 10/23/17 at 7:06am

The Mankiewicz.screenplay is structured like a play, befitting its theatrical setting, and I think is a natural for a stage adaptation.  It doesn't require a great deal of embellishment or structural rehab to make it stageworthy.  Writing its adaptation is really an editing job, the character development and plot being fine as is.  Blanchett seems a good choice to me, so believable in any period, but it's Eve's story.  That's the casting news I'm really eager for.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 10/23/17 at 7:37am

GavestonPS said: "I would only add that in 2017-18, are we still asking whether a woman can have a career and a successful marriage? That dramatic question was pretty creaky even when APPLAUSE first opened."

Gaveston, aren't any creakier aspects of the conflict much more evident in Applause than they ever were in All About Eve?

In the film, Margo's dilemma is that she can't bring herself to accept and love herself as a middle aged woman and a middle aged actress.  She can't trust that she can be loved and wanted as both even though she's not 28 anymore. 

That issue, alas, is not creaky.  A great many actresses today would relate to that conflict.  

It's never about feeling as though she has to give up either Bill or her career.  Margo in the movie is not a character anyone would believe is about to give up her career.  So it's obvious that she is making it clear to Lloyd and Karen that she is not giving up her career when she marries Bill.  Instead, she's merely going on to a new stage of it where she will play parts that are more right for her and will no longer feel compelled to keep playing parts that are increasingly wrong for her in her 40s.

"Never have I been so happy...I'm forgiving tonight, even Eve, I forgive Eve...Do you know what I'm going to be?...A married lady...No more make believe off stage or on. Remember, Lloyd? I mean it now...I don't want to play Cora...It isn't the part. It's a great part in a fine play. But not for me anymore. Not for a four-square, upright, downright, forthright married lady...It means I finally got a life to live. I don't have to play parts I'm too old for, just because I've got nothing to do with my nights."

 

 

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 12/18/17 at 1:51pm

Assuming this one is no longer happening.