The Official August: Osage County Love Thread

YAY AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY!!!!!! Loved this show. The three acts just flew by. Really an incredible piece of theater. Everyone should go see it.

LOVED this show so much!

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Truly one of the best things I've ever seen onstage. I saw the replacement cast, with stunning work from Estelle Parsons and Amy Morton. I didn't see Dunagan, but she must have been pretty ****ing special to beat Morton for the Tony.

"One of my favorite parts of the August: Osage County experience is right after "I'm running things now!!," the lights go out, and the audience is screaming. Seriously. People are actually cheering, clapping and screaming."

Word. Amy Morton and Estelle Parsons gave me chills.

I saw it with the orignal cast and LOVED it. Does anybody have an opinion of how Estelle Parsons compares to Deanna?

I was, indeed, mesmorized by the piece of art. I loved how funny it was (which was unexpected...I knew to expect the dysfunction and mayhem...just not the humor) and how I was never "safe" in the audience. Just when you thought you knew where things were headed; they'd pull the rug out from under you.

(there were a couple of performances that I thought were lesser, but it didn't interfere with my awe and delight.)

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I saw it in May, and it was UNBELIEVABLE. I couldn't stand up at the end of the show because I was crying so hard, I honestly think I haven't cried that hard since I was an infant. It was beautiful.

I'm seeing it again with the different cast in October.

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Forgive me if I said this on another post, but I can't find it. We saw August... on a Saturday matinee. I was mesmerized and wiped out by the experience. On Sunday evening we stopped at Joe Allen to sit at the bar and have a drink before going to Forbidden Broadway. Amy Morton and a couple "friends" were sitting next to us at the bar with Ms. Morton around the end sort of facing us. Clearly it was just after the Sunday performance. I am not a stage door person or an autograph seeker. But as we left, they were also leaving. I stopped her and said, "Yesterday we saw the show. I am still exhausted. When I think that you have all done that entire show TWICE MORE since we saw it yesterday, it's simply mind-boggling." She looked at me as if she never thought of it before and then said, "Yes, it is, isn't it?" I thanked her for one of the greatest days in the theatre I've ever had. She was kind. Then as they left I realized the other three people were cast members as well, and I felt SO guilty for slighting them.

Yesterday as they were leaving the theatre someone said "Well, I no longer trust the Tonys." I died a little inside.

It's so good.

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And a lot of people with bad..erm...differing taste. I was baffled by how the ITH audience went beserk for what I considered a pretty mediocre piece of theater.

It's emotions over intellect that decides what is quality. Then again it's art, which is subjective.

"I finally saw it this past weekend. And while I liked it, I did not love it .... I'm sure it's just me ...."

Nope.

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