- Joel Grey
- Mark Rylance
- Andrew Rannells
- Rory O'Malley
- Gavin Creel
AND someone told me they saw Barbra Streisand sitting in the back!!!!?!
For me the true delight was watching Mark Rylance's reactions to Joe Mantello's work. Rylance gave a very enthusiastic applause at Ellen Barkin's monologue and at the curtain call.
This was my second time seeing the show and tonight's audience was VERY responsive throughout the piece. The energy was overwhelming to the actors on stage.
Tonight was also the first of many TalkOuts planned to follow the show for various select upcoming shows. Tonight's topic was Broadway Impact and activism, the panel being Gavin Creel and Rory O'Malley.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle