Has anyone seen « The Search for Intelligent… » with Cecily Strong at the Shed? — Page 2

Saw it from the very last row and thought it was fine. Dragged in places like many said. The rewrites seem to have led to a very disjointed new version. Nice to see Cecily on stage. She was good. Seeing what she can do on SNL, It felt to me that she was holding back from creating full characters. These characters for the most part are stereotypes (for a reason) and it seemed maybe she (or the director) didn’t want to lean into them for fear offending. Leading to none of her characters feeling any different from each other. The theater itself was great. Wonderful new theater space.

What size are the programs? Was hoping to request one by mail and want to send the right-sized SASE. Thanks!

I saw this today and enjoyed it! Cecily was great. She was great at differentiating her characters and bringing each to life uniquely. I would agree some parts dragged a bit and I wasn't a fan of some of the sound effects. The impressively timed ones that assisted her pantomiming were good, but the ones that marked her transitions were a bit too fake-sounding. I wasn't a fan of the transition scenes in general. In shows like Lehman Trilogy, actors slip between characters without transition scenes and they're just so good at it that the audience immediately picks up the switch that just happened. Cecily herself does it in this show when she switches between characters having conversations with each other, like the prostitutes in the car and the feminists at the bar. It's a much greater display of an actor's skill to switch characters without lights flashing in the audience's faces and cheesy sound effects. Definitely liked it overall, though!

I saw this last night at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Usually don't care for one person shows, but I wanted to see Strong. I really enjoyed it.

I will say the storytelling was a little confusing. The part after the Angst part - with the 3 women going - was a little confusing. The Upper Crust lady was by far my favorite.

Direction was simple but effective, same with the design.

I'd recommend it. The touch of putting the post-it notes in the lobby after the performance was cute.

didn't they announce this MONTHS after the NYC run got mixed to negative reviews



why?