Posted: 7/30/22 at 7:02pm
Having just returned from a few weeks in London, I made a beeline back to the St. James today to see my beloved show, with Cheyenne. I was very happy to see all the principal actors in and giving even better performances than they were giving just a couple weeks ago, when I last saw it. How do you all of these people keep improving? Just when I thought they were all giving perfect performances, they go and make them even better.
But I wanted to make sure I saw Cheyenne, who really did blow me away. His performance is just so different from Gavins, it’s not even possible to compare them. I suppose you can only compare them by their contrasts. For example, Cheyenne’s last scene saying goodbye to Cinderella, made me tear up. The line “I was raised to be charming not sincere” is a funny line. Always has been. However today, it was said with such sincerity not as a joke or excuse but almost a self realization. I’m so happy I got to see him and happier yet I’m going back in a couple days to see him one last time.
But yeah, I’m the two weeks I’ve been away everyone has added to their performances and not at all in ways that are over the top or unnecessary. If you have a chance to just focus on Phillipa at the start of the act one finale, she does this little dance with her hands that just cracked me up.
I continue to thank the theater Gods for this revival.