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SomethingPeculiar
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dianaclyde
Swing Joined: 8/4/18
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Posted: 8/4/18 at 9:28pm
My friends who saw it at the National thought that Cranston was excellent, loved the way the studio was conceived and the restaurant on stage added immensely to the experience...but there were reservations about the text. And if anyone can camouflage a text's weakness it's Ivo with his theatrical pyrotechnics. I'm surprised if it is indeed the Cort- Rudin must not be involved!! Though I think it's preferable to the Lyceum or the Belasco.
SomethingPeculiar
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Posted: 8/4/18 at 9:46pm
KJisgroovy said: "Is the Lyttleton that much larger than a large Broadway house? I really don't know. I'm asking! Seemed a slightly above average size when I was there... but nothing comparable to, say, the Olivier stage."
The Lyttelton stage is 52 feet wide (about 15 feet wider than the Cort). I think it's significantly deeper than the average Broadway house, though, because I remember interviews about ANGELS talking about how the design had to be reimagined to fit the much shallower Neil Simon stage.
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Posted: 8/4/18 at 11:22pm
If it does happen, I hope it's not with Michelle Dockery, who couldn't be more miscast in the Faye Dunaway role. I'd love to see Cranston as Howard Beale, though.
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LightsOut90
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/2/14
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Posted: 8/5/18 at 12:58am
Are they bringing the entire cast over from across the pond?
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
LightsOut90
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Posted: 8/5/18 at 3:33am
I personally think the physical production was too large and too distracting in hindsight. I hope if they transfer they scale it back a little and just make sure the focus is on the only reason everyone is there in the first place: Bryan Cranston.
"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)
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Posted: 8/5/18 at 9:45am
RippedMan said: "What was altered with Angels? I actually never saw Part 2 on Broadway, so curious if they did the ending the same way."
The stage at the National is much wider and deeper, resulting in some altered design elements and some tricky backstage choreography for entrances/exits. (Specifically, they couldn’t pull the set from the top of part 2 all the way back and offstage on Broadway in the way they did in London.)
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