Could anybody who sees Year of Magical Thinking please post...

[April Saul]

Posted: 3/6/07 at 9:46pm

...and let us know how long it is, whether there's an intermission or a student rush, and most of all, if Vanessa is terrific or not? Trying to get to see this one soon and looking for any info I can get!

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 3/6/07 at 9:47pm

1. No student rush
2. when is she not terrific?

[loverly]

Posted: 3/6/07 at 11:12pm

Guess you missed her in Hecuba. Not terrific!

[AC126748]

Posted: 3/6/07 at 11:16pm

No intermission, according to an e-mail I received the other day regarding late seating. I'm going tomorrow night.

[AC126748]

Posted: 3/6/07 at 11:19pm

An early rave.
http://showshowdown.blogspot.com/

[Kristie-K2]

Posted: 3/7/07 at 1:53am

I want to see her on Broadway!!

Please post reviews. I am going to get my ass on a plane and cross the USA in two weeks. NYC here I come!!!! Again!!!

[Kristie-K2]

Posted: 3/7/07 at 9:04pm

Bump!!!!!

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 3/7/07 at 9:11pm

Excerpt from a review on ATC:

"I was bored out of my mind. It was a pretentious piece of ----." - theaterisok

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 3/7/07 at 9:13pm

A friend of mine saw it last night and hated it. He said Redgrave didn't move from her chair the entire performance and Didion's script was longwinded and self-indulgent. Don't shoot the messenger.
Updated On: 3/7/07 at 09:13 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/7/07 at 10:37pm

We initially thought of seeing it

Even with a discount, one person sitting in a chair did not do it for us

[CapnHook]

Posted: 3/7/07 at 10:48pm

I'm sort of glad it wasn't on TKTS and I saw BATB instead. Although I missed an opportunity to see her live, I am told by others who were there for the first preview that it is dull and repetitive.

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 3/7/07 at 11:47pm

I just got home from tonight's show. I was totally drawn into it and thought Redgrave was mesmerizing. I had great seats, so it felt like a very personal experience, as if a friend was sharing her most private thoughts.

This is a different kind of show, not so much "entertaining" as it is a shared introspection into how one person reacted to a major loss. If you've never been there, or perhaps react in a different manner, Didion's words and Redgrave's performance may seem respectively self-indulgent and boring, I suppose, but as someone who is still dealing with my own demons of loss, I felt the words gave voice to things I've felt but not verbalized. And Redgrave made the experience resonate.

Again, it's not for everyone. But I found it to be one of the most special experiences I've ever had at the theater. Came home, in fact, and bought another pair of tickets.

[AC126748]

Posted: 3/7/07 at 11:54pm

Just got back as well, and I echo iflitifloat's comments. Redgrave was mesmerizing, and her performance made up for a weak (but definitely not boring) script. Didion is obviously not a playwright--her text reads like an extended New Yorker article--but overall it was a most worthwhile evening of theatre. I was moved to tears several times. Vanessa Redgrave can do anything.

I will definitely be seeing it again. A master class in acting.

[Kristie-K2]

Posted: 3/7/07 at 11:54pm

Great I am going!!!!!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 3/8/07 at 12:04am

I was captivated, mesmerized, moved and I can't stop thinking about it.

I was there tonight, as well. I was drawn to every word, and followed each graceful and stunning movement of Ms. Redgrave's.

At times I felt as if we were the only two people in the theatre and she was speaking directly to me.

[AC126748]

Posted: 3/8/07 at 12:06am

At times I felt as if we were the only two people in the theatre and she was speaking directly to me.

I felt the exact same way. Redgrave created such an intimate, personal mood.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 3/8/07 at 12:11am

I first heard Didion on Fresh Air and I bought the book.

Did she cover all the medical aspects?

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 3/8/07 at 12:15am

Can't wait to see it. If iflit and Addy loved it, I will, too.

not shocked that Roxy passed on this one...brilliance isn't his thing.

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 3/8/07 at 12:21am

I read the book a while ago, but it seems to me that although the medical stuff was referenced, it wasn't belabored on stage... It would be difficult to tell her story without going there at all.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 3/8/07 at 12:29am

I loved how Didion told her emotional story, but crowded it with technical description of what she observed. I must read it again.

[AC126748]

Posted: 3/8/07 at 12:38am

By the way, for those who are so inclined, I noticed through the window at Junior's (where my friend and I ate after the show) that Ms. Redgrave does do the stage door thing. She didn't come out for a good hour after the show though, so if you want an autograph, be prepared to wait in the cold.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/8/07 at 6:23am

Civility is definitely not MUNK'S thing

[Auggie27]

Posted: 3/8/07 at 10:04am

Doesn't surprise me that the goal is shared intimacy rather than creating "theatrical size", as Hare did in DOLOROSA. The content doesn't lend itself to Ms. Redgrave roaming the stage, as if in THE SEARCH FOR SIGNS... or Billy Chrystal's evening. This is clearly a different take on one-person shows, and I am actually relieved that it's not full of "theatrics" that would likely seem tacked on.

Is she wearing a mic?

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 3/8/07 at 7:56pm

I didn't notice one. But I wasn't looking.

[AC126748]

Posted: 3/8/07 at 8:01pm

It didn't sound like she was using a mic. VR is old school; she knows how to project.