Very Brief Thoughts About JOURNEY'S END- Page 2

[gumbo2]

Posted: 5/20/07 at 12:52pm

It took me so long to figure out what that puddle of water was...it was reflecting so nicely I thought it might be some sort of mirror or something. It wasn't until someone stepped in it that I realized it was water.

[jordangirl]

Posted: 5/20/07 at 12:55pm

Ok... GRRR! Seasonal allergies gave me a headache and that combined with the lovely smell of what I think was an entire bottle of lighter fluid some street vendor had used made me feel really sick. So I decided that something like this probably wasn't the best bet for today. Definitely plan to go back when I'm feeling better (and avoid the street vendor corner in Times Square!!)

[The Goat]

Posted: 5/20/07 at 1:12pm

Let me add to what everyone else is saying about this revival. I waited until yesterday to see it because I had seen the play in London when it first (re)opened there, and felt that while the London production was fine, I didn't need to see it again. Boy was I wrong! The production now at the Belasco is much more taut and moving than the London production. Dancy gives what I think is the best male lead performance of the past season--nuanced and powerful--with Langella a close second. And Stark Sands, who I wasn't all that taken with at the start of the play, pulled off one of the most moving death scenes I've ever seen. The matinee audience I saw it with was gripped from the get-go and you could hear a pin drop (except for laughing at the comic lines). Go, go, go, if you can, before it closes. There are good discounts for which you can get great seats.

[wendi]

Posted: 5/20/07 at 2:24pm

The only negative thing about seeing Journey's End is you have to deal with that horrible staff they have at that theater. They are just way beyond Rude. I believe it is the worst and rudest bunch of ushers on Broadway!!
Updated On: 5/20/07 at 02:24 PM

[gustof777]

Posted: 5/20/07 at 6:04pm

very true wendi. don't know what they have stuck up their asses but lordy is it prickly...but the show and the actors more than make up for them

[keen on kean]

Posted: 5/20/07 at 7:46pm

I was at the Wednesday matinee and I had a lovely usher - she was attentive and polite. She was covering the 3rd aisle - and she said she had just started ushering at the Belasco. Maybe some of the rude ushers were replaced?

I stated elsewhere but will repeat here that JE was shattering - beautiful and touching and uniformly well acted. Go see it -
Updated On: 5/23/07 at 07:46 PM

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 5/20/07 at 7:51pm

"Dancy gives what I think is the best male lead performance of the past season--nuanced and powerful"

I agree.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 5/22/07 at 11:02pm

Why was the theatre shaking?

[popular_elphie]

Posted: 5/23/07 at 8:57am

At the end, the sound of bombs dropping gets louder and louder and louder, shaking the entire theater.

[curly120]

Posted: 5/23/07 at 6:57pm

I saw the show last night. WOW. I read a post before going where they said they wanted to give a standing ovation, but they couldn't move. That's exactly how I felt. I was shaking and crying by the end of the show. What I loved about this show was the acting. It wasn't the typical theater acting that's over the top somewhat. It felt real.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 5/23/07 at 7:15pm

I just wanted to provide a link, for those who haven't seen, that from now until the end of the run, JOURNEY'S END is offering a $35 discount code for the entire house.

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=935653

I also just wanted to say -- I know that my avatar sells me out as a major admirer -- but, all of the nominations for theatre awards this season have been announced; Outer Critics Circle, New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Theatre World Awards, and Tony Awards. Not one of these groups even nominated Hugh Dancy's performance.

I don't understand such an extreme oversight. It's not as though this is a featured performance that could easily be forgotten. Dancy took that show in the palm of his hands and guided the cast beautifully and powerfully from beginning to end. The only awards that recognized Dancy were the Drama League Awards -- which listed him as one of their 80-some honorees, and still, Liev Schreiber won the performance of the year award.

Boyd Gaines gives a powerful supporting performance in JOURNEY'S END as well, and I'm glad that he won the Drama Desk Award. But since he was, in my opinion, wrongly kept in the Leading category for the Tonys, I feel as though his slot should not only have gone to Dancy, but that Dancy deserved to win this season. Boyd Gaines is a 3-time Tony Winner and an amazing actor but this seems to be a case of the Nominating Committee being blinded by an actor's history as a multiple Tony winner without seeing the show's true Leading breakout performer.

I hope that Dancy comes back to Broadway soon, but really, his performance in JOURNEY'S END is the role of a lifetime, and I'm sad that he did not get any major award recognition for it.

Updated On: 5/23/07 at 07:15 PM

[usmma2010]

Posted: 5/23/07 at 7:16pm

im taking a bounch of my friends that are in for fleet week this weekend, but as someone in the military, who has been fortunate, not to be deployed to far away i thought it gave me a better idea for what my friends over seas in the middle east must be feeling, the show puts everything into perspective, and thats even befor you start to look at the more technical aspects of the show and how well done everything is. but what was most impressive was how convincing the acting was. dancy and darcy really stood out in my opinion, i could ramble on and on about how important i think a show like this is, but please go see it before its to late

[RockabyeHamlet]

Posted: 5/23/07 at 8:34pm

I have to send a big THANK YOU to all of you out there. There has been such wonderful reactions to this play on this board, that I decided to check out today's matinee. I was absolutly amazed. I can't tell you how disturbing and enlightining the play is. The ensemble were just magnificent, both in their own right and as a team. By the end of the show I could not move and my throat was dry. I was perticurally impressed by the way they did the ending. It was much more moving not to have a typical curtain call.

[retrogirl44]

Posted: 5/28/07 at 12:10am

That would be giving too much of a clue as to an earth shattering moment in the play..you must personally experience it, and, then, the "epiphany"

[mint0621]

Posted: 5/28/07 at 6:12am

Updated On: 5/28/07 at 06:12 AM

[Hogarth]

Posted: 5/28/07 at 1:41pm

Saw the show yesterday and can't stop thinking about it. A play like this shows how timeless a well written drama can be.

Can't say enough about the performances and the productions. No crabby usher for me, either, so maybe the duds were replaced.

See the show.