"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
I know you don't want to give anything away, but can you tell us just a little more about the story and characters? The poster looks like something you'd see on a cheesy romance novel, but still I'm intrigued.
Absolutely spectaular show!! I loved it! Can't wait to see it again on opening night! What great performances! I agree, to give away the would ruin the experience...people need to just go and see this amazing production!
Jack: For your information, most people who meet me do not know that I am gay.
Will: Jack, blind and deaf people know you're gay. Dead people know you're gay.
Jack: Grace, when you first met me, did you know I was gay?
Grace: My dog knew.
TRYST is about a con man named Mr. Love and his relationship with a gal who works in a hat shop. Yes, it does have some of the elements of a romantic novel, but it also has excellent acting and brilliant direction.
I don't want Brody or Hugh to worry, they come out of the front of the theater, but be prepared to wait....they take a while
Jack: For your information, most people who meet me do not know that I am gay.
Will: Jack, blind and deaf people know you're gay. Dead people know you're gay.
Jack: Grace, when you first met me, did you know I was gay?
Grace: My dog knew.
This evening I went to TRYST. I did not know anything about it other than it is a two character play set in Edwardian London, and that Maxwell Caulfield plays something of a con man.
What a terrific evening of theatre!
The exposed set on the Promenade stage was enough to grab my attention. Exposed brick and iron, all painted balck, steam coming from the steam cover on the stage floor. My mind was trying to reconcile the set with what I thought I was going to see. The lights dimmed, and rose on Maxwell Caulfield, bare chested, alone on stage, his back to the audience. He turned around and began bringing the audience into the world of George Love, con man. Within a few minutes there appeared on stage right Amelia Campbell, sharing with the audience snippets of the life of Adelaide Pinchin, a millner's assistant, sewing hats in the back room.
Instantly, these two superb actors are off on one of the more mesmerizing evenings of theatre. Together they are sex and danger and humor and pathos and callousness and fears and tears and joy and hope. For two swift hours one is lost and intertwined in the lives of George and Adelaide.
Forget tht Julia's of the world; a movie star is a movie star. Exquisite acting is the true stardust. It shines and glows and burns hot and is quickly gone forever, but the intensity lives on forever in one's memory.
You can't do better than Caulfield and Campbell in TRYST right now on any New York stage. It's a fine play, by a sharp dramatist, that takes one's breath away.
Maxwell's gym-taut bod apparantly hypnotized you. When he broke down in the second act, half the audience (myself included)practically burst into guffaws . There's gratuitous full-body nudity. Unfortunately, it wasn't him.
I was hynotized by many things on the stage of the Promedade. The characters created by playwright Karoline Leach certainly generate laughter among other audience reactions, but the actors' superb craft on stage last night certainly did not.
Maxwell's physique? The envy of many a 20-something I have no doubt. Hypnotized? Well, I've seen it before in all it's 20+ years younger birthday suit glory (ENTERTAINING MR. SLOAN), so "been there, done that."
Oh. I forgot to mention. We ordered our tickets through TDF online about 10 days ago, and picked them up at the box office just before curtain. We were seated in the center of the first row of the Orchestra. One couldn't get any closer to Adelaide and to George. Hypnotized? Nah.
mint0621 asked above if there was student rush for this show. does anyone know if there is? if not, i may just buy a tdf ticket to see this. i'm definitely interested. thanks!
I have been reading the reviews, and some of them (New Yorker, Bloomberg) are complete raves. It seems split between people who think it's wonderful and subtle and nuanced and those who think it's an old-fashioned thriller.
