Gigi, by Anita Loos
Gigi, by Anita Loos
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#1Gigi, by Anita Loos
Posted: 1/21/15 at 10:10pm
In those much-missed, fondly-remembered, golden-aureoled good old days, attending the theatre meant experiencing feelings of rapture and wonderment on a daily basis. Thanks to the Storm Theatre's loving and lovely revival of Anita Loos's Gigi, we can now feel them yet again.
With a thorough understanding of period and milieu, and a meticulous attention to detail in both performance and design, the production uses a dexterous sleight of hand to craft a theatrical experience that is touching, humorous, and thoroughly enchanting. With consummate skill, the actors bring their characters winningly to life. In the author's wise and engaging text, under the director's caring and compassionate hand, the most seemingly quotidian moments touch the heart, the most offhand remarks warm the soul. In the final scene, two of the simplest observations were so profound, so moving, so beautiful--- how could one ever hope to stay a tear --- or several? I confess to having shed more than a few --- of joy and gratitude. And miracle of miracles, wholly cognizant and considerate of the audience's wishes, the play favored us with the most beautiful of happy endings: a loving couple about to embark on life's journey together. (What a welcome change from the rancid venom and bile and spat in our faces these past forty years!) As the lights faded out on the final magical tableau, the audience came to know bliss, radiant and glowing.
As I left the theatre, I recalled a lyric from our greatest living composer-lyricist, "Someone gave me a wonderful present." That someone was the entire Storm Theatre company, and that something was Gigi, by Anita Loos.
My deepest thanks to both.
#2Gigi, by Anita Loos
Posted: 1/21/15 at 10:20pm
...a lyric from our greatest living composer-lyricist, "Someone gave me a wonderful present."
Which Sondheim song is that from?
#2Gigi, by Anita Loos
Posted: 1/21/15 at 10:22pmI can only imagine what the reception the Broadway revival will garner from our very own Fosca.
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#3Gigi, by Anita Loos
Posted: 1/21/15 at 10:25pmIt's a lovely book, but I've never read the play. Glad you liked it.
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#4Gigi, by Anita Loos
Posted: 1/21/15 at 10:26pm
PJ,
You need to read more carefully.
And more importantly, think more carefully.
That is, if you're capable of rational thought.
Which is, unfortunately, highly doubtful, at least from what you've displayed thus far.
Updated On: 1/21/15 at 10:26 PM
#5Gigi, by Anita Loos
Posted: 1/21/15 at 10:32pmI'd actually be much more interested in seeing this version than the film-to-stage adaptation.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#8Gigi, by Anita Loos
Posted: 1/21/15 at 11:19pm
Well, you said "our greatest living composer-lyricist"--there's only ONE person that phrase could refer to!
I hope to Sondheim you didn't mean ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER!
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#9Gigi, by Anita Loos
Posted: 1/22/15 at 6:49am
"Well, you said "our greatest living composer-lyricist"--there's only ONE person that phrase could refer to!"
Absolutely.
If you knew anything about the theatre, you would a) recognize the lyric, and b) know who wrote it. You would also know that Andrew Lloyd Webber is a composer.
Someone supremely ignorant of the theatre really shouldn't be posting on a theatre message board.
Of course, that has never stopped you before. Or some others here, either!
And as to be expected, you had nothing to add to the discussion of Gigi.
#10Gigi, by Anita Loos
Posted: 1/22/15 at 7:26am
This from the poster who routinely criticizes review posts that are more than four sentences long.
tl;dc
I believe this is what After Eight usually refers to as "blather."
#13Gigi, by Anita Loos
Posted: 1/22/15 at 10:25am
Yea PJ, if you knew anything about theater!
You have more knowledge in your finger that AfterHate has in his whole miserable decrepit carcass.
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