Floyd Collins- Page 2

[kyle.]

Posted: 7/11/07 at 1:45am

I have a DVD of a concert version of the show dated 1-25-03. Would that be the Reunion Concert at Playwrights? Does anyone have more information on the concert? I don't know anything expect that a reunion concert took place in 2003 and the DVD is labeled with the above date.

[Ourtime992]

Posted: 7/11/07 at 2:06am

I'm too tired to look them up now, but I must have written a dozen posts on Floyd Collins here over the past two years. Hearing it for the first time was one of the most transforming experiences I've ever had. I found the CD in my father's collection after returning home from several years of service in another country. It was still unopened, so I opened it and popped on a whim. It blew me away, and moments into The Call I ran into the next room and demanded everyone in my family listen to it. By the time I got to How Glory Goes I was a devoted Guettel fan.

[barisaxy103]

Posted: 1/21/08 at 6:20pm

The New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development will present "Floyd Collins" February 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16 and 17, 2008 at the Frederick Loewe Theatre, 35 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012. Tickets are $20 general admission, $5 with valid NYU I.D. Ticket information is available at 212-998-5281. As an added bonus, noted cave explorer and author Roger Brucker, who wrote the book "Trapped! The Story of Floyd Collins," will participate in a talk-back with the audience following the 3:00 p.m. performance on Sunday, February 10. Brucker has explored Mammoth Cave in Kentucky for more than 50 years, and knew the real William "Skeets" Miller, the newspaper reporter who is portrayed in the musical. Information about Brucker is available at www.rogerbrucker.com.



Come see it!!! it will be excellent, I promise

[roquat]

Posted: 1/21/08 at 6:44pm

I saw the Playwrights Horizons production, which was staged almost like a Samuel Beckett musical--an inclined platform surrounded by rocks and fallen timbers at stage right for Floyd's cave, and a weatherbeaten rake leading up to a scrim at the back. Lots of ingenious minimal lighting effects (with such touches as having bits of sand falling gently through spotlights, as if the "cave" was unstable). The staging of "How Glory Goes" at the end made the most effective use of a scrim and performers I have ever seen.

I was so stunned when I saw the original production I didn't know quite what to make of it; I was shaking all the way home. Later, when I listened to the cast album, I fell completely in love with it. An extremely unsophisticated, anti-theatrical friend of mine heard the score at my urging and also fell for it, fervently.

This is a show that I think you could stage in a number of brilliantly creative ways--the Shaw production photos look wonderful and original. The thought of having Floyd somewhere where the reporters, for example, could lean against him or sit on top of him without realizing it--both funny and horrifying.