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Now THIS Is A Production Of STREETCAR To Get Excited About!

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#25Now THIS Is A Production Of STREETCAR To Get Excited About!
Posted: 6/22/11 at 12:44pm

You're not alone in thinking that. I was reading these boards around that time and I remember opinions on her performance were profoundly split. All I can say is "thrilling" was hardly the word I'd use; "comatose" would be more accurate. And her idea of how to sound like a proper southern woman was to mumble everything.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

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#26Now THIS Is A Production Of STREETCAR To Get Excited About!
Posted: 6/22/11 at 12:53pm

It looked as if she learned to be sexy by going to the Kristin Stewart School For Sexiness.

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#27Now THIS Is A Production Of STREETCAR To Get Excited About!
Posted: 6/22/11 at 12:59pm

REALLY????

I mean...I understand people being polarized by a performance, but none of those words could come close to describing what I saw. I know she used early performances to really try lots of different things...but what I saw could hardly be called comatose or mumbly. Fascinating!

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#28Now THIS Is A Production Of STREETCAR To Get Excited About!
Posted: 6/22/11 at 1:30pm

Fascinating indeed. I remember people talking about what she was doing in previews, changing things, trying to figure out what worked. I saw a late performance--maybe two weeks prior to the end of the run--so I'd imagine that her interpretation was set by then.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

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#29Now THIS Is A Production Of STREETCAR To Get Excited About!
Posted: 6/22/11 at 1:37pm

Or maybe she was just done with the crazy one on stage with her!

Did I say that?

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#30Now THIS Is A Production Of STREETCAR To Get Excited About!
Posted: 6/22/11 at 1:37pm

Or maybe she was just done with the crazy one on stage with her!

Did I say that?

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#31Now THIS Is A Production Of STREETCAR To Get Excited About!
Posted: 6/22/11 at 1:48pm

I just looked at this for the first time in a while. It still holds true to my feelings. Now THIS Is A Production Of STREETCAR To Get Excited About!
http://www.broadwayabridged.com/scripts/streetcar.html

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

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#32Now THIS Is A Production Of STREETCAR To Get Excited About!
Posted: 6/22/11 at 1:50pm

I went to school with Danny Sherman! He's going to be an awesome Mitch. Maybe the first do-able Mitch in theatre history.

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#33Now THIS Is A Production Of STREETCAR To Get Excited About!
Posted: 6/22/11 at 1:51pm

Oh come on!

Didn't you just want to sit on Karl Malden's nose???? (PS...check your facebook).

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#34Now THIS Is A Production Of STREETCAR To Get Excited About!
Posted: 6/22/11 at 5:53pm

I did see the Blythe Danner / Frances McDormand / Aiden Quinn STREETCAR. Frances as Stella actually stole the show, which really shouldn't happen with this piece. Danner was just a little off -- and not in the way Blanche is actually off. Since I barely remember Quinn, I guess it must not have blown me away.

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#35Now THIS Is A Production Of STREETCAR To Get Excited About!
Posted: 6/23/11 at 12:39am

Hm. Might have to attempt to see this. Are tickets to Williamstown always hard to get?

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#36Now THIS Is A Production Of STREETCAR To Get Excited About!
Posted: 6/23/11 at 8:13am

Cromer directed this last year at Writers' Theatre in IL touting the same intimate experience for the audience. It sounds like it'll be the same production, new cast.

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#37Now THIS Is A Production Of STREETCAR To Get Excited About!
Posted: 6/23/11 at 8:16am

It is the same production, yes.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

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#38Now THIS Is A Production Of STREETCAR To Get Excited About!
Posted: 6/23/11 at 1:28pm

Hecht and Rockwell are so curiously cast in these roles that my intuition says it will actually pay off. Hecht certainly has the versatility and Rockwell could be a very different street-wise Stanley with a sexual magnetism coming from a very different angle than your usual Stanley but just as dynamic and menacing. Best of all, they seem like they'd have very good chemistry together.

What I want to know is whether Ullman's extraordinary production with Blanchett will ever make it back to New York.

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