Performance spaces

[edenespinosalover]

Performance spaces#0

Posted: 11/3/04 at 9:46am

Do you enjoy seeing/playing shows in a large house or a more intimate space?!

[jmaclover]

re: Performance spaces#1

Posted: 11/3/04 at 2:18pm

Initmate:

Cabaret

"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.

[sean martin]

re: Performance spaces#2

Posted: 11/3/04 at 2:19pm

Depends on the show, actually. I wouldnt want to see Wagner's RING on a postage stamp stage, and I sure wouldn't want to see WAITING FOR GODOT or THE FANTASICKS performed arena-style. There are some shows that never quite fit in the spaces they're given: usually it's taking what should be a small show and forcing it to go big. CATS was one, IMHO -- it should have been staged in a smaller, more intimate space... but then it wouldn't have raked in the bucks, would it?

"That duck was a sexual toy, and it was on display!" -- an unknown Nashville town leader

[jmaclover]

re: Performance spaces#3

Posted: 11/3/04 at 2:28pm

I think straight plays (ie Golda's Balcony) should be done in a small intimate setting.

Musicals (pardon, big flashy musicals) should be done on a prescinium stage.

My favorite is a thrust - which I actually used to hate.

There really aren't to many (on) Broadway thrust stages huh?
what a shame!

"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.

[luvtheEmcee]

re: Performance spaces#4

Posted: 11/3/04 at 2:33pm

It completely depends on the show; some of my favorite spaces are the really small, intimate ones, and others are some of Broadway's biggest theatres. I think my opinion is very heavily based on the production/productions that I've seen there - not necessarily on how much I liked them, but on how they used that space. My favorite example is always Cabaret - Studio 54 was perfect for it, and the atmosphere added so much to the show.

A work of art is an invitation to love.

[MagicToDo82]

re: Performance spaces#5

Posted: 11/3/04 at 2:34pm

My crazy theatre group performs in a small and very intimate art gallery with a stage. Its awesome. Our cabaret fundraiser is going to take place in a bar with a performance area. I guess Im partial to intimate venues. Then again, this is from the girl who adores the Wharton Center stage....so I guess I like both. It really does depend on the show.

There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.

[touchmeinthemorning]

re: Performance spaces#6

Posted: 11/3/04 at 2:49pm

an intimate theatre in the round always makes me happy.

"Fundamentalism means never having to say 'I'm wrong.'" -- unknown