Judy Garland Musical "END OF THE RAINBOW" Headed To Broadway March 2012 — Page 8

PJ - I haven't seen Judy Davis, I'm going to try and look it out.

And I look forward to hearing your thoughts on it if if makes it to your shores. I'm definately of the school that I'll go and see anything (however bad) once... I've seen some real stinkers on that basis mind - recently "The Syndicate" with Ian McKellan, which I was really looking forward too, but would probably have walked out of if the interval had been between Act 2 and 3 rather than after act one. I've only ever walked out of one thing - and that was a play called "Mrs Pat" - about Mrs Patrick Campbell, which my mother and I left at the interval (thank god the tickets weren't expensive) beause the first act covered about 20 years and seemed to consist of the lead actress repeatedly changing outfit and hats behind a screen on the stage.

Updated On: 9/29/11 at 03:30 PM

Ooooh. That is really good. Must try and watch more.

As far as Bennett -> Davies comparasons (I know, I know, 6 minutes on screen vs stage performance, not fair etc) I'd say that Bennett's Garland is on edge in a more obvious way. Weather that's because she's at a more desperate part of her life, or whether it's the writing I don't know - but I'm sure as monkeys going to try and find more of the Davies so I can see!

BTW - there's a drama on here at the moment about Shirley Bassey. Why do all these things descend in to tears of the tortured artist?

"...would probably have walked out of if the interval had been between Act 2 and 3 rather than after act two...."

I know you Brits have ways that are inscrutable to us colonial yokels; no doubt you use an entirely different numbering system. But what, pray tell, is the different between an intermission after Act II, and an intermission between Acts II and III?

(I apologize in advance for the lack of tone of voice and facial expression in internet posts. Please believe I am asking this in a tone of bemused curiosity and not trying to give you a hard time. :) )

sorry - should've been after Act 1... Aka, there was one interval, and it was after the first act. I blame nightshift brain...


I've just been back and changed it.

Epic fail...

Updated On: 9/29/11 at 05:12 PM

You needn't apologize to me, algy. There is no reason I shouldn't have figured that out for myself, but for some reason I wasn't able to do so.

Your error was basically a typo. In my case it seems I may have lost all understanding of basic mathematics. (Part of the problem is that plays with two intermissions are increasingly rare over here.)

Thanks for recognizing there was no malice in my question.

The listings are referring to it as "a play with music."

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Namo - I'd agree with the listings. The songs don't further the plot, which is what I expect songs to do in musicals. They happen, and they arrest your attention, and they've picked the songs to fit with what's going on in the script, but the narrative arc (such as it is) would not be missing anything without them. The play would be the poorer for it, but you would still know what's going on.

@Algy of course the songs further the plot; for instance she sings The Man that Got Away when she thinks Mickey is walking out on her. The songs have to be in the play as it's about Judy's time in London when she performed at The Talk Of The Town.

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yes you're right Clap, I should have said, the songs are appropriate to a scene but they need to be in because it's about the talk of the town too.

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Algy...agreed see my post before this one.

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Her Majesty - I think we cross posted - your post wasn't there when I started replying - and they're both timed 05:58...

Clap: neither you nor I are old enough to have seen Judy Garland at the Talk of the Town or to have known her personally - so what evidence do you have to substantiate your comments about Tracie's performance?

"The amount of her performances I have seen over the years."

But what performances?