SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM First Preview??- Page 6
SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM First Preview??
#125SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM First Preview??
Posted: 3/27/10 at 12:26am
Saw the show again tonight.
I only noticed one cut number. But there were certainly some minor changes, all for the better. There were technical problems in act 2. The audio stopped during some of the videos. And sometimes the audio wasn't matching his lips.
They started at 8:02, and ended about 10:45. The pacing feels better. Audience seemed to REALLY enjoy it. Didn't notice any walkouts! Definitely a stronger show within a week. Hopefully there are still changes to come.
#126SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM First Preview??
Posted: 3/27/10 at 12:38amDid you notice Vanessa Williams mess up during Children Will Listen?
#128SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM First Preview??
Posted: 3/27/10 at 12:45am
She was singing with Tom and was supposed to sing "Careful the tale you tell, that is the spell" but sang "Careful before you say, listen to me". It was awkward.
And I was in the mezz and those bastard people working the sound up there were freaking out almost yelling for a good thirty minutes until an audience member went over and told them to shut the hell up. Very unprofessional of the staff at that theater.
#129SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM First Preview??
Posted: 3/27/10 at 12:50am
I heard some commotion at the back of the mezz, lots of noise (banging, etc).
And you're right I did notice they sang two different lyrics!
#132SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM First Preview??
Posted: 3/28/10 at 2:18amHer solo is technically "My Husband The Pig."
#133SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM First Preview??
Posted: 3/28/10 at 5:10amWhat song was cut?
"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)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
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#134SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM First Preview??
Posted: 3/28/10 at 8:15am
I sat through this last night, and was deeply disappointed. I'd have had a more productive evening by putting my Sondheim playlist on shuffle and reading a good Sondheim biography.
The interviews were far more interesting than the drab performances, and I too would buy a DVD consisting only of them. The performances were decidedly lackluster. Only Barbara Cook managed to rise above the pedestrian, her "In Buddy's Eyes" was the evening's high point. Euan Morton's limp ande unfunny "Franklyn Shepard Inc." had zero rage or pain to animate the song, and poor Tom Wopat's "Epiphany" was just plain embarassing. It didn't help that the songs are taken out of context, of course, but I kept feeling that the cast wasn't even really trying to make up for it with any real emotion at all, they were just going through the motions and climbing the set.
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