Farewell, Twelfth Night and Richard III, and thanks!- Page 2
Farewell, Twelfth Night and Richard III, and thanks!
#25Farewell, Twelfth Night and Richard III, and thanks!
Posted: 2/17/14 at 8:59amEchoing the praise for these prodductions, which I was able to see thanks to the $27 tickets. Thank you for mentioning the DVDs: I had no idea these were filmed until reading this thread, and just ordered them! (I typed "Richard III Twelfth Night DVD" into the Amazon search box on my phone and the product popped up halfway down the page.) Thank you for the mention, because now I can relive the productions, up-close this time!
AntV
Broadway Star Joined: 12/23/12
#26Farewell, Twelfth Night and Richard III, and thanks!
Posted: 2/17/14 at 9:25amI'm pretty sure you just bought the paperback books of the plays. That is only what is available on the US Amazon. Twelfth Night is available on the UK Amazon. And Richard III wasn't filmed.
#27Farewell, Twelfth Night and Richard III, and thanks!
Posted: 2/17/14 at 9:54amI double-checked, and you're absolutely right. Thanks for saving me thirty bucks: just canceled the order. I'm saddened that "Richard III" wasn't filmed, because it was my preferred of the two productions. Thanks again!
ultraviolet99
Understudy Joined: 5/5/12
#28Farewell, Twelfth Night and Richard III, and thanks!
Posted: 2/17/14 at 12:57pmThe DVD of the Globe production is great, but it's actually very different from the Broadway production. Some of the staging changed, and there were quite a few cast changes. Samuel's Viola was miles better than Johnny Flynn's. I thought Angus Wright was a better Sir Andrew than Roger Lloyd Pack. Joseph Timms wasn't in the Globe production, and I thought he was fantastic as Sebastian.
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#29Farewell, Twelfth Night and Richard III, and thanks!
Posted: 2/17/14 at 1:03pmultraviolet - I agree with your comments completely. Other benefits - the Belasco playing space seemed smaller which meant that the audience could visually keep track of everything going on at a particular time. Also - I can't see standing for 2 hours and 45 minutes with nothing to lean on! Good for those at the Globe who have the stamina.
homeimp
Leading Actor Joined: 10/2/08
#30Farewell, Twelfth Night and Richard III, and thanks!
Posted: 2/18/14 at 1:12pmI would love to see Mark Rylance do double duty, performing both Antony and Cleopatra on alternating nights in Shakespeare's glorious play. If any actor in the world can do this, it is Mr. Rylance. It would be a stunning coup de theatre and certainly pack the Globe, or wherever it would be performed. Of course the problem would be who do you get for the alternate Antony and Cleopatra. For me, Mark can do no wrong, although I do wish he would work on his Tony acceptance speeches!
#31Farewell, Twelfth Night and Richard III, and thanks!
Posted: 2/18/14 at 1:17pmI believe Rylance played Cleopatra back in the late 90s.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#32Farewell, Twelfth Night and Richard III, and thanks!
Posted: 2/18/14 at 1:26pm
Mark as Cleo!
And the following story, which he related to Out Magazine
“When I played Cleopatra at the Globe, I actually had a man shout out, ‘What’s wrong with real women? Why do we have to watch these f*cking faggots?!’ I had to stop the show and, as Cleopatra, say: ‘Tell them Queen Cleopatra says you can have your money back.’”
Link to story: http://www.out.com/entertainment/theater-dance/2013/10/22/mark-rylance-broadway-twelfth-night
#33Farewell, Twelfth Night and Richard III, and thanks!
Posted: 2/18/14 at 1:32pm
^^^^ Funny story! Maybe Sam Barnett can alternate in the roles.
Does anyone know if Twelfth Night and Richard III on Broadway were taped? I don't seem to remember mention of it. I certainly hope they were!
mamaleh
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#34Farewell, Twelfth Night and Richard III, and thanks!
Posted: 2/18/14 at 2:21pm
I was fortunate enough to be able to catch TWELFTH NIGHT twice, once from a stage seat and then from that wonderful Row B, both at that very affordable $27 price. I was able to catch RICHARD II only once, and from the balcony--but even from there I enjoyed Rylance et. al. to the highest degree. So I have no regrets and feel lucky to have seen both.
In answer to your question, my second visit to TWELFTH NIGHT a few weeks ago coincided with its being captured for the Lincoln Center archives. So glad it was.
#35Farewell, Twelfth Night and Richard III, and thanks!
Posted: 2/18/14 at 2:36pmWonderful news! Thanks!
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#36Farewell, Twelfth Night and Richard III, and thanks!
Posted: 2/18/14 at 3:05pm
I am afraid that Mark may be past the age when he can play a femme fatale but I would love to see him as Queen Margaret in R III, as that can be an exciting female role. (They cut so much of the part at the Belasco that she hardly seemed the same character.)
Also, I had reservations about Rylance's acceptance speeches until they introduced me to the prose poems of Louis Jenkins, and now I don't object one bit to his choice to recite rather than mouth the usual platitudes of a grateful winner.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#37Farewell, Twelfth Night and Richard III, and thanks!
Posted: 2/18/14 at 3:15pm
Margaret was cut entirely. Rylance explained why in Time Out:
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/q-a-mark-rylance-on-shakespeare-twelfth-night-and-richard-iii
In the case of Richard III, we’ve made the very big—and perhaps unfortunate, for some people—choice of cutting Margaret, because I feel that one of the difficulties with the play is it can be too long. If you’re doing the play on its own, as we are, out of context of the rest of the history, and hoping the audience will have a complete evening by experiencing the rise and fall of this tyrant in this particular world, then something had to go, really. Margaret’s part has more to do with the build-up of events and karma and curses over the longer period of the whole history cycle.
Plus, she gives away the whole plot at the beginning.
She does. But she’s so strong, and if you have women in the play (rather than men playing women), then it is even harder to cut her, because she is a very important female part. But she rather obscures the other elderly woman, which is Richard’s mother.
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#38Farewell, Twelfth Night and Richard III, and thanks!
Posted: 2/18/14 at 5:03pmWow - my bad. I obviously for some portion of the play assumed the older woman was Margaret, and my brain stuck with that, all evidence to the contrary. My first live R III - and I get a "d"!
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#39Farewell, Twelfth Night and Richard III, and thanks!
Posted: 2/18/14 at 5:53pmI think you must have confused the role with the Duchess of York (Richard's mother).
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#41Farewell, Twelfth Night and Richard III, and thanks!
Posted: 2/18/14 at 6:04pmWait, we got grades? (Praying for a curve.)
#42Farewell, Twelfth Night and Richard III, and thanks!
Posted: 2/18/14 at 10:19pmI walked by the theatre yesterday, and just from the seeing the production photos made me want to see it. I didn't realize it closed yesterday until I saw them loading out when I walked by this morning on my way to Penn Station.
#43Farewell, Twelfth Night and Richard III, and thanks!
Posted: 2/18/14 at 11:17pmI saw Twelfth Night four times, and Richard III once. Magical, magical productions! I don't regret playing full price to sit onstage for Twelfth Night. Sir Andrew and Sir Toby joked with us the whole time. Rylance beamed at a little ten-year-old girl seated to my right. She was transfixed, even when her mom's cell phone went off mid-performance (from the bottom box onstage, oy vey!) Angus Wright and Samuel Barnett were fantastic and I will be headed to the Lincoln Center archives to see this, again and again!
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