Posted: 3/28/19 at 1:51pm
Victoria Clark is performing in Lady in the Dark (Kurt Weill) for three nights at City Center - April 24-26. Tickets are going fast! $30.00 for some of the Mezzanine seats!!!
Posted: 3/29/19 at 11:39am
Is there a access promo code for this? I have been waiting for the code but so far I don't think NYCC has sent the email.
Posted: 3/29/19 at 11:42am
I never had an access code. I just went onto the website and bought a ticket. It was from an email from Playbill.com advertising $30.00 tickets.
Posted: 4/5/19 at 10:20am
Posted: 4/24/19 at 10:19pm
I've never seen this show, but I can vouch for its quality based on my mother's opinion. "My Ship" was thought to be a certain standard back then. I saw Lynn Redgrave perform "The Saga of Jenny" on PBS probably back in the 70s in a short PBS series on American Lyricists hosted by Sylvia Fine Kaye, the widow of Danny Kaye. In the right hands it is a very clever and funny number, and this is doubtless true of Julie Andrews, who played Jenny in the film Star based on the life of Gertrude Lawrence.
Then why don't I see it? I very well might.
I never know whether I should add this or not, but by now everyone must be pretty sure that Julie's "The Saga of Jenny" is up on YouTube. And it isn't necessarily the best version, apart from its spectacle.
Updated On: 4/24/19 at 10:19 PM
Posted: 4/24/19 at 10:28pm
Julie Andrews played Gertrude Lawrence in “STAR!” The Jenny production number is fantastic! The film was directed by Robert Wise;:1969
Posted: 4/25/19 at 7:45am
Posted: 4/25/19 at 12:13pm
We saw Maria Friedman star in an excellent LADY IN THE DARK at the National Theater back in the 90's (I believe). The book scenes were clunkily mired in analyst-speak from 1940, but it didn't matter when you got to hear that ravishing parade of songs performed so well. Very simple set (abstract ship's sails gliding this way and that) and frankly, Ms. Friedman was miscast as the glamour-girl, but we still really treasured that show.
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Posted: 4/26/19 at 12:47pm
NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/arts/music/weill-lady-in-the-dark-mastervoices-review.html
Updated On: 4/26/19 at 12:47 PM
Posted: 4/26/19 at 3:20pm
Posted: 4/26/19 at 10:41pm
One of the most uneven productions I can remember.
There is much to admire here. Winning performances from Liza's three suitors. Ron Raines and Ben Davis couldn't be better. Chris Invvar is a revelation. This trio aces the tone of the musical and style of the period. The leading men get it - that the Freudian gravity goes down a lot better with elegant pacing and a wry wink.
Montego Glover, Ashley Park and especially David Pittu are wonderful. They also lighten Hart's book scenes and make them sparkle and snap.
Clark sings ravishingly and looks glamorous in splendid costumes. When she's singing and Liza dreaming, Clark knocks it out of the couch and finds every ounce of wit.
Unfortunately, in the awake/book scenes her Liza is self-indulgently neurotic rather than a woman using brains, humor and grit to find her way out of the depressing depths of "the 17th to 22nd floor."
As a result, the long opening scene lays a big Jungian egg... although making Dr. Brooks a woman is, or rather could be, inspired, Amy Irving, who seems woefully underrehearsed as well as leaden does not help..
The denoument scenelets of an anguished childhood and adolescence are the libretto's creakiest. They too are played, embarrassingly, for on the nose realism.
The orchestra sounded great, somehow the huge (!) chorus did not.
...at about three hours "this is dull... the show's barely existing.." It's trying stuff but at times charming, frothy and smart; half splendid lavish fun and half rank amateur schlock.
Updated On: 4/27/19 at 10:41 PM
Posted: 4/27/19 at 6:20am
Posted: 4/27/19 at 8:14am
The orchestrations are sublime. I’d love a recording, too!
Also, this: https://www.theaterpizzazz.com/lady-in-the-dark-mastervoices/
Updated On: 4/27/19 at 08:14 AM
Posted: 4/27/19 at 8:26am
Rise Stevens the opera star did a Lincoln Center revival many years ago. She was fantastic. I hope Victoria Clark has a lovely voice like Rise had.
Posted: 4/27/19 at 9:52am
wanted to add:
There really is a lot to love about this show
At root it is not the relic many presume. It is not about a woman who rebels against her gender identity to survive as boss lady in a man’s world.
it’s about a woman who stops herself from “having it all” because the world did a number on her. As a result of that hurt, she, ahem, subconsciously believes herself undeserving of love.
In an age where so much of pop culture, and a lot of musical theatre, focuses on powerful men afraid of getting and giving love, why is it sexist to shine the same light on a woman?
Notably, Hart did not base Liza’s liberation on her giving up power but on her sharing it. some minor but effective revisaling might be in order re: this resolution. I’d love to see Liza remain on top at the final curtain and Charlie accept that. Or perhaps Charlie should take the Town and Country job and the two should be open to love and a partnership of equals as bosses of their own mags.
But even Hart’s ending has Liza remaining a media mover and shaker, a captain of industry, just happier in her gestalt.
Updated On: 4/27/19 at 09:52 AM
Posted: 4/27/19 at 11:01am
I hear tell that there are a ton of seats for today at 2PM.
Posted: 4/27/19 at 9:00pm
Actually, it was quite well sold.
Not full as both Thursday and Friday were, but extremely well sold for a matinee performance added after the program was first announced.
Delighted that so many BWW folk were able to attend.
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