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#26

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Posted: 7/27/04 at 1:19am

nuggetmonkey, you forgot "angels", haha. i'd say that's a classic, it is in my eyes. o, and "cat on a hot tin roof", its my favorite by williams.

hey! i think they did a production of "zoo story" at fordham university last year, one of the students was telling about it when i visited.

#27

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Posted: 7/27/04 at 1:20am

YES, read them all. Albee is the god of concepts.
-d.b.j-

Vary My Days.

#28

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Posted: 7/27/04 at 1:23am

Oh wow. I am more stupid than I even thought.

--Angels IS a classic. and a daring, beautiful one at that.
--Cat is YESSS. just a big YESSS. a huuuge YESSSS. possibly my favorite williams as well.
-d.b.j-

Vary My Days.

#29

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Posted: 7/27/04 at 1:23am

thanks qfan, ive added them to my list of neccessary reading.

this is a little o.t. but its interesting; the first time i read "cat on a hot tin roof", i got this feeling in the pit of my stomach when brick and big daddy had their big scene, every word started to hit me, like a blow to the heart (corny sounding, i know, but its honest). i was seriously aching, especially when brick started talking about skipper. thats a feeling no other play has ever realling produced for me.

#30

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Posted: 7/27/04 at 1:27am

wow, i guess this is a moment when i think: "I love theatre, because it is strips us down to our primal, emoting selves. Not our McDonald's scarfing, Protein shake-making 'selves', because they don;t really exist. "
:)
-d.b.j-

Vary My Days.

Updated On: 7/27/04 at 01:27 AM

#31

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Posted: 7/27/04 at 1:34am

i think the theme is universal, and there were some personal things in my life that could have also resonated with the play

Updated On: 7/27/04 at 01:34 AM

#32

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Posted: 7/27/04 at 1:35am

okay gotcha. MENAGERIE sort of had that effect on me.
-d.b.j-

Vary My Days.

#33

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Posted: 7/27/04 at 1:40am

williams has an otherworldly ability to achieve complete emotional nakadness, or at least to make a reader/audience connect to a characters struggle in a way that is so effective it... well... gives us a stomach pain!

#34

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Posted: 7/27/04 at 1:21pm

I know exactly what you mean ny

"Look on the Bright Side Not on the Blackside get off your backside shine those shoes! This is your golden opportunity: Your the lightning and the news!" -Assassins

#35

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Posted: 7/27/04 at 1:27pm

I disagree about Turner. She was a fabulous Maggie the Cat, brought a humor and humanity to the role that was unique. The Graduate - yes, she was stiff, but so was every person on that stage. That was a directorial problem. Rent The War of the Roses and see if you still believe she won't be a brilliant Martha. I for one can't wait!

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#36

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Posted: 7/27/04 at 2:46pm

I would also add to the list of classic American plays:

-- The Skin of Our Teeth (Thornton Wilder)
-- The Front Page (Hecht and MacArthur)
-- You Can't Take It With You (Kaufman and Hart)
-- All My Sons (Arthur Miller)
-- The Moon For The Misbegotten (O'Neill)
-- The Rose Tattoo (Tennessee Williams)
-- Picnic (William Inge)
-- A Raisin In The Sun (Hansberry)
-- The Odd Couple (Simon)
-- Lost in Yonkers (Simon)
-- Seascape (Albee)
-- Curse of the Starving Class (Shepard)
-- True West (Shepard)
-- Buried Child (Shepard)
-- The Fifth of July (Lanford Wilson)
-- Talley's Folley (Lanford Wilson)
-- American Buffalo (Mamet)
-- Glengarry Glen Ross (Mamet)
-- Six Degrees of Separation (Guare)
-- House of Blue Leaves (Guare)
-- The Great White Hope (Sackler)
-- The Gin Game (Coburn)
-- Hurlyburly (Rabe)
-- Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (McNally)
-- Fences (August Wilson)
-- Joe Turner's Come and Gone (August Wilson)
-- The Piano Lesson (August Wilson)

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

#37

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Posted: 7/27/04 at 4:11pm

im really happy the way this thread is going

"Look on the Bright Side Not on the Blackside get off your backside shine those shoes! This is your golden opportunity: Your the lightning and the news!" -Assassins

#38

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Posted: 7/27/04 at 11:04pm

UPDATE

We know that it wont be the virginia for the fact it just booked Little Women unless godforbid it's not a hit

"Look on the Bright Side Not on the Blackside get off your backside shine those shoes! This is your golden opportunity: Your the lightning and the news!" -Assassins

#39

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Posted: 7/27/04 at 11:33pm

yeahhh.... Margo, I have never understood THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH. in fact, i read up to half-way through Act Two and called it quits. (at least for now). help me, i love Wilder. and i would love to love a play, but i just don't understand his weeeirddnessss.
-d.b.j-

Vary My Days.

#40

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Posted: 7/28/04 at 12:08pm

The Booth would be perfect for it.

Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!

#41

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Posted: 7/28/04 at 12:21pm

what about the Helen Hayes, or do you think that's too intimate --- of course Golda is still running

"Sir K, the Viscount of Uppity-shire...." -- kissmycookie

#42

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Posted: 7/28/04 at 12:25pm

feel free to rent the flick also. well done.

"I am not 'a' Eunice Burns. I am THE Eunice Burns!!!"

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