#51
Posted: 10/5/11 at 11:20am
I saw this last night, and it was wonderful!
With Irma you gotta do something!
Gary Griffin's Follies — Page 3
#52
Posted: 10/5/11 at 11:29am
When you have time, can you say a little more? Pretty please?
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#53
Posted: 10/5/11 at 11:56am
Gladly, but for now, Caroline O'Connor is amazing. All of the performances are top level.
With Irma you gotta do something!
#55
Posted: 10/6/11 at 1:19pm
I am afraid I do not have much time today to write the review I would like to, but Brent Barrett was great vocally--could have been stronger, performance-wise, especially at the end. His scenes with Phyllis crackled, but I felt the end of "Live, Laugh, Love" should have escalated and crescendoed, where Brent felt it should be more of an internal moment. He sounds GORGEOUS, though, and I doubt there have been more beautiful interpretations of "The Road You Didn't Take" and "Too Many Mornings."
It was a lot to take in and I'm still digesting. There was an intermission, I will say. The orchestra was good despite being on the intimate side of the spectrum. The second act burst into the grand Follies sequence had a lot of people thrown and there was a lot of unexpected, uncertain, laughter during that, which was interesting.
For a first preview, it was beautiful. I can only imagine how it will be in a couple weeks into the run when the lighting design, performances, and staging truly gels.
Hollis Resnik killed with "I'm Still Here", I might add. "Mirror, Mirror" was the show-stopper you expect it to be, even with two less women.
Young Ben is dreamy, and I enjoyed the performances of the young foursome.
A scattered assessment, I know, but that's how things are rolling today. I shall be seeing it again, I suspect.
It was a lot to take in and I'm still digesting. There was an intermission, I will say. The orchestra was good despite being on the intimate side of the spectrum. The second act burst into the grand Follies sequence had a lot of people thrown and there was a lot of unexpected, uncertain, laughter during that, which was interesting.
For a first preview, it was beautiful. I can only imagine how it will be in a couple weeks into the run when the lighting design, performances, and staging truly gels.
Hollis Resnik killed with "I'm Still Here", I might add. "Mirror, Mirror" was the show-stopper you expect it to be, even with two less women.
Young Ben is dreamy, and I enjoyed the performances of the young foursome.
A scattered assessment, I know, but that's how things are rolling today. I shall be seeing it again, I suspect.
With Irma you gotta do something!
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