Photo Coverage: Opening Night for ON THE TOWN at Paper Mill Playhouse

[Rob]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 8:50am

Click Here to Read Photo Coverage: Opening Night for ON THE TOWN at Paper Mill Playhouse

Posted: 11/18/09 at 8:59am

Looks great--and I didn't know Harriet Harris (who I loved most from her role in Frasier) was in it! Now I wish I could go all the more.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 10:01am

Those costumes for the women are tragic.

Posted: 11/18/09 at 10:06am

I assumed they just all wear the sailor outfits for the finale/curtain call...

[fallingawake]

Posted: 11/19/09 at 12:26pm

The Wall Street journal reviewer called On the Town "better than anything on Broadway".

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704204304574543833898128244.html

While that sentiment is probably highly debatable, would something like this ever transfer or is it just too low key?

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 11/19/09 at 3:01pm

Once in a very great while a Paper Mill production is transferred. The one that comes to mind is You Can't Take It With You when Jason Robards did it. But it doesn't happen very often.

Some of you probably remember when Paper Mill did Follies about ten years ago -- Ann Miller played Carlotta. There was a lot of buzz about a possible transfer, but apprently, Sondheim ixnayed it. As a result, the next New York Follies was that miserable Roundabout production in 2001? 2002? I've mercifully forgotten most of it. Fortunately, the Paper Mill was recorded and the recording has some chunks of music never before recorded. Although it was far from a perfect production (will there ever be one that's 100% right-on?), it certainly beat out that Roundabout atrocity. I was at the last Paper Mill performance and the audience went screeming wild -- the applause after Miller did I'm Still Here was one of the loudest and sustained ovations I've EVER heard in a theatre for anybody, anything.

[regnad kcin]

Posted: 11/20/09 at 12:33pm

My parents saw this the other night. My father has done some amateur theater, and tends to be very critical. He said that every aspect of this show -- acting, singing, dancing, lighting, ... was superb.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 11/20/09 at 10:04pm

Well if an amateur theatre actor liked it then it must be brilliant!

Posted: 11/21/09 at 4:17am

Great review

Was it Sondbheim who nixed a transfer of the Papermill Follies? Any reason why?