Performance spaces
Performance spaces
#0Performance spaces
Posted: 11/3/04 at 9:46amDo you enjoy seeing/playing shows in a large house or a more intimate space?!
jmaclover
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#1re: Performance spaces
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
Broadway Star Joined: 7/4/04
#2re: Performance spaces
Posted: 11/3/04 at 2:19pmDepends 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?
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jmaclover
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#3re: Performance spaces
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.
#4re: Performance spaces
Posted: 11/3/04 at 2:33pmIt 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.
#5re: Performance spaces
Posted: 11/3/04 at 2:34pmMy 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#6re: Performance spaces
Posted: 11/3/04 at 2:49pman intimate theatre in the round always makes me happy.
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