If you and your pig-headed purism know you hate it so much, why do you bother?
Do you think it's like, noble of you to keep trying, or something? Oy.
verynewyorkcurious - I'm not sure I entirely get what you're asking, but I will try to help you out. Based on my own interpretations, anyway. It's a lot of symbolism -- especially in the set, and the way it's used. The column is probably at least in part a phallic symbol; and look at the way Bobby climbs up on and clings to it, especially during those full company numbers. And it's staged almost like they're coming at him and he has to get up there to escape. It's like he's clinging to that as a representation of bachelorhood, or something. The cubes... people have said they look like ice cubes -- the symbolism of which is pretty obvious -- or museum displays. This production, as I said earlier, really heavily emphasizes the isolation and disconnection in our society. Especially living in a big city like New York. The coldness of an ice cube has a pretty strong implication in terms of how distanced we are from one another -- as does a museum display. You go to a museum and you can look at something, but you can't touch it. There's no contact, no connection. And in the sense of putting
people up there and treating them like objects in a museum, that's totally impersonal.
Not sure what you mean by this:
Was that there showing that the two ends of the center square are connected? And, are you asking what the point of the actor-musicians was, or just the point of having them seated where they were? I don't want to type up something unnecessary if that's not what you're asking.
The end was supposed to be the same birthday party at the beginning of the show? There was just so much going on that I couldn't catch up. The beginning and the end occur in real time. Bobby has been thinking about everything you see in the middle. So Being Alive and the voicemails happen on the same birthday.
A work of art is an invitation to love.
Updated On: 2/22/08 at 12:58 AM
