Has anyone seen Mourning Becomes Electra yet?

[Insider2]

Posted: 1/30/09 at 11:50am

Anyone? Comments would be appreciated. Thanks!

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 1/30/09 at 12:51pm

I'm seeing it in 2 weeks. A matinee performance that starts at noon. I haven't been this excited since COAST OF UTOPIA.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 1/30/09 at 1:04pm

I'm seeing it tomorrow at 12. I'll post a review.

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 1/30/09 at 2:24pm

I've never had to good fortune to see Mourning and would love to, but something tells me this production isn't going to be a "traditional" mounting of the play.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 1/30/09 at 9:40pm

Please! reviews def needed. I'm holding the last slot of my sched open for this but really want to know more b4 I commit 4 hrs of my life to see this show.

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 1/30/09 at 9:42pm

Four and a half hours actually.

I'm going on the 20th.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 1/30/09 at 11:27pm

It's Scott Elliot, so it's either going to be a slow-as-molasses conversation piece or an over-the-top flamboyantly gay spectacle.

Prove me wrong.

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 12:04am

Watch it end up being both.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 12:36am

Hm. I'm intrigued. But 4-and-a-half hours? Jeez. Is the play that engaging?

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 7:52am

Well, if you like O'Neill, it's one of his better ones.

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 8:17am

Assuming it's done in its entirety, the first two parts are very engaging -- it's the third part where the longeurs set it. Christine, the Clytemnestra figure, dies at the end of part two and some people have opined that the play dies when Christine does.

[Vespertine1228]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 11:10am

I kind of want to see it just to prove to myself that I can sit through the four and a half hours. Not sure exactly how I got that desire.

No matter how good (or bad) it is, a lot of people will probably be deterred by the running time, and I assume free tickets will start popping up. I think I'll hope for that and wait until then.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 5:23pm

Word to the wise: STAY AWAY FROM THIS SHOW

Just got out. Five hours long and I was bored every second of it. The performances are laughable, the direction is some of the worst I have EVER encountered, and it feels like a bad community theatre production.

Bad, bad, bad.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 5:55pm

How long'd it run?

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 5:57pm

Five hours. I was already bored after thirty minutes.

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 6:09pm

Hopefully it'll tighten up... because five hours?!?! What is this a Wagner opera?

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 6:10pm

Wagner, O'Neill, it's all the same.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 6:25pm

Maybe if they take out the canyon-wide pauses that they call "reaction time" and make the scene changes faster, it could possibly run four and a half.

[ChristopherDurangFan]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 7:22pm

Was Lili Taylor not good?? She's usually amazing.

[BroomstickBoy]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 7:48pm

Flamboyantly gay spectacle......so it's the same Scott Elliot who ruined the revival of Threepenny Opera I take it?

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 11:05pm

No. Lili Taylor couldn't even save it. She had her great moments, but she wasn't strong enough to help the play any.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 1/31/09 at 11:25pm

That sucks. I figured for $16 it'd be worth a trip, but I guess not.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 2/1/09 at 12:35am

Well, I, at least , thank you for saving 4+ hours of my life and time in New York next month. And extend by condolences for your extended period of boredom.:)

[agolden]

Posted: 2/1/09 at 11:33pm

Yes. It sucks. Jena Malone outshone Lili Taylor but her part was much more interesting. I had front row seats and had to keep my hand over my mouth so the actors wouldn't hear my laughter.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 2/1/09 at 11:46pm

Glad I'm not alone, agolden