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#25Light In The Piazza
Posted: 4/10/25 at 3:20am
Ravenclaw said: "Kad said: "Beautiful score, but the show always left me sort of cold. It’s a marble statue of a show for me.
(I do think the revelation about Clara is borderline camp, though, in both detail and execution)."
Borderline camp, you say?
....I'm just gonna leave this here...
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0ZyPozPNXd/?igsh=aWVzejUxMmFuNDVj"
OMG haha.
But yes, I think this and the 'borderline camp' comment kind of illustrates it for me. There is something just a little off about it. And I WANT to love it of course.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#26Light In The Piazza
Posted: 4/10/25 at 11:34am
It doesn't seem like it would be all that difficult to remove that "borderline camp" moment, either by deleting it entirely, or (if it's important that we see why Margaret carries such guilt about it) replacing it with a recollection of early signs of a developmental disorder that she neglected to do anything about.
But it's just a fleeting moment in an otherwise perfect show (in my opinion, of course).
WindyNewYorker
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rattleNwoolypenguin
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/11/11
#28Light In The Piazza
Posted: 4/11/25 at 8:41am
If you watch the 60’s movie or read the novella, the reveal of Clara is not camp at all. It’s not even a reveal, it’s just explained. It’s honestly sadder.
And it more reflects just the negligence and ignorance of parents in that time period that your child and your child’s brain is fragile.
It’s become a theatre joke because the show decided wrongly to build it as a reveal later on in the show that you’re waiting for as an audience member as well as hearing it come from someone with a thick southern accent.
Olivia DeHavilland in the film plays it very straight early on and it’s handled much better
jms2880
Swing Joined: 11/26/11
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