Three Days of Rain
Three Days of Rain
#0Three Days of Rain
Posted: 4/20/06 at 6:28pm
Julia Robers an award winning film star and chosen a smartly crafted romance to make her Broadway debut. The show is a pleasant piece that allows her to play contrasting women. In the opening scenes she is the quiet figure of a buttoned-down wife in her early thirties and second act she assumes the character of a free-spirited charmer with a Southern accent. Her co-stars, Paul Rudd and Bradley Cooper have all the heavy lifting in the acting department. The story involves the younger generation trying to puzzle out old family mysteries. This play afforst her to project anxiety, compassion, and a suggestion of future insanity.
SPOILERS
Its 1995 as siblings Nan (Roberts) and Walker (Rudd) see each other for the first time since the death of their father, Ned, a celebrated architect. Their mother, Lina, described "Zelda Fitgerald's less stable sister" has long been institutionalized. Walker is a brilliant talker but miserably neurotic. Nan is the same and very guarded. They are joined by Pip (Cooper) a soap opera idol and their childhood friend, whose long deceased father, Theo, was Ned's partner in the architects' firm. Ned's will is about to be read. Up for grabs, is the most admired house that Ned and Theo ever designed. Rummaging around the disused offices of the former partners, Walker discovers his father's journal. Unfortunately, they decide the entries such as the notation "Three Days of Rain: are too cryptic to be informative.
The play's second act reveals in flashback what occurs between Ned (Rudd), Theo (Cooper) and Lina (Roberts) during the rainy weekend in 1960.
The play was absorbing but makes no great mental demands. Most of the show's attendees, I think, were there to see Roberts perform in the flesh.
"Life is not measured by the number
of breaths we take, but by moments
that take our breath away."
"Life isn't about how to survive the storm,
but how to dance in the rain."
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#1re: Three Days of Rain
Posted: 4/20/06 at 7:02pmBoth the News & Post panned it for whatever it is worth
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BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#3re: Three Days of Rain
Posted: 4/20/06 at 7:07pmPersonally, I liked the play (and Ms. Roberts) very much.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#4re: Three Days of Rain
Posted: 4/20/06 at 7:08pmDid not see it & have no intention of seeing it especially @ $ 250 a pop
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#5re: Three Days of Rain
Posted: 4/20/06 at 7:11pmI loved it. All three actors were excellent and it was totally worth my $61.25 plus service fees. I may see it again (SRO) in a month or so. I'm sorry Julia didn't get better reviews.
#6re: Three Days of Rain
Posted: 4/20/06 at 7:13pm
I'm sorry Julia didn't get better reviews.
As am I.
KindnessofStrangers
Stand-by Joined: 2/11/05
#7re: Three Days of Rain
Posted: 4/20/06 at 7:30pmI've no personal investment in the failure or success of this play but, just the same, am delighted to read the expected scathing reviews for Julia Roberts. She's an actress who has never seemed more than barely competent to me.
chouinard
Swing Joined: 4/5/06
#8re: Three Days of Rain
Posted: 4/20/06 at 7:57pm
I was at the opening night and thought Julia has come along way since I saw her in the April 2nd preview performance. I've sat in the orchestra twice and never had to pay no premium price.
The direction has changed in the first act, especially. Robert wears her hair down in the first act and lets go of the bag a lot quicker. It seems her worst reviews (which I expected being Julia) had a problem with her in the first act. I think she has a great moment as Nan recalling how she wished her brother was dead and how it was harder when she found out he was alive. In ACT 1 she is to react to them. She is buttoned down. She is the sane one. She is closed off and sitting in the orchaestra I felt her performance. I didn't see unecessary nerves and I feel like it would have been wrong for her to be bigger - and what she did with her hands. I don't even remember. I was caught up in the play - the words -which I loved - and her hands did not destract me.
I'm surprised Paul Rudd and Bradley Cooper are also not getting the best reviews.
The audience really seemed to love it though, but I guess it's opening night - it's too be expected? I bet we see her on broadway again and it just proves she's fearless as an actor and I love her for that.
#9re: Three Days of Rain
Posted: 4/20/06 at 10:15pmI did not pay $250.00 a pop and I had good seats.
"Life is not measured by the number
of breaths we take, but by moments
that take our breath away."
"Life isn't about how to survive the storm,
but how to dance in the rain."
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