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rOcKS @ 'Company'
misschung
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
#25re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/25/07 at 1:26amI was
#26re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/25/07 at 2:07amI just wanna take this moment to ask, after reading the costume points in that review, has anyone else noticed that every single character has something from Dolce and Gabana on them? Several of the men are wearing the same DG belt. There are necklaces and lapel pins and everything. Everyone has something....Why do you all think that is?
SweeneyPhanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 1/4/06
#27re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/25/07 at 2:17am
"And if someone still hasn't seen Company at this point, I doubt one more gushing review is going to lure them back in the last week."
I have not seen Company at this point because I'm an underpaid teenager living in Suwanee, GA, but that review alone is enough to make me hate my situation even more (the show is closing on my birthday; imagine how ****ty I felt after the closing was announced). If I lived in/near NYC, I would totally have rushed out and bought the best ticket I could for any of the upcoming performances, no matter how much money I had to scrounge up to get it.
So thank you, rOcKs, for your thorough review. It is greatly appreciated from this end.
Johnnytoc
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#29re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/25/07 at 10:29amI KNOW! We made him cry with the standing ovation!
#30re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/25/07 at 10:29amAt the stage door, I heard him say it was a very "snotty" performance.
misschung
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
#31re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/25/07 at 10:41ambially - there is a lot of Dolce in the costumes. I noticed the guys belts too, but I'm not sure how the costumes work - maybe they just wanted them all to be sort of uniform.
#32re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/25/07 at 10:51am
Sponsorship of some sort? I dunno. I hadn't noticed it on the women, but the guys' belt buckles are pretty obvious if you sit close.
He almost always cries during Being Alive. It was cool that people stood for him, but that was nothing compared to the performance after the Tonys. 
misschung
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
#33re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/25/07 at 10:57am
Yeah that was just... insane.
I just love watching him watch Barbara Walsh perform Ladies Who Lunch. That's usually when he starts to cry - Bruce's performance during that scene is also great
That was funny when he said it was a very snotty performance yesterday, hehe
#34re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/25/07 at 11:01amHah. TMI, Raul.
#35re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/25/07 at 11:27am
"has anyone else noticed that every single character has something from Dolce and Gabana on them?"
how funny, I've never noticed - Raul Esparza's suit is Armani, I believe.
hearthatstrue
Stand-by Joined: 9/10/05
#37re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/25/07 at 11:53am
Wonderful review, rOcKS, though I have to disagree about Stanley as well. I thoroughly enjoyed her performance as April, particularly during "Barcelona."
I was yet another BWW member who attended the show yesterday. I did student rush yesterday, and it was my first time seeing the show. I walked out of that theatre unable to form a coherent sentence for about thirty minutes or so. A purely brilliant production with equally brilliant actors. Every single one of those talented men and women are phenomenal. Even the pretty, little white butterfly fluttering around the theatre thought so.
#38re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/25/07 at 11:58amGreat review! I enjoyed this show very much! I thought that Barbara Walsh's "Ladies Who Lunch" was the highlight of the production!
Johnnytoc
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#39re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/25/07 at 1:39pm
The butterfly was fun. He'd randomly go by during a scene.
I was partial to whoever sneezed and brought up the first light cue- thanks!
#40re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/25/07 at 1:42pmThe entrance sneeze was excellent.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#41re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/25/07 at 2:28pmThe butterfly was really irritating...it dive-bombed like five people in the audience.
#42re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/25/07 at 2:30pm
Aw, I thought it was pretty. 
And somehow ironic.
hearthatstrue
Stand-by Joined: 9/10/05
#43re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/25/07 at 2:51pm
That's exactly what I thought, Emcee. Quite ironic and lovely.
I didn't hear the sneeze, but that sounds too perfect. I did, however, hear Raul make a "tsk" noise at the high-pitched 'background music' at one point. His face was adorable.
#44re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/25/07 at 4:19pmYeah, what was that weird prolonged beeping? It didn't sound like a phone, but more like a weird, high-pitched ring.
misschung
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
#45re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/25/07 at 5:03pm
Oh good, I wasnt the only one who heard that. That was really annoying.
The entrance sneeze made me laugh. Gotta love live theater
#46re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/25/07 at 5:36pmdid anyone else hear someone rubbing their hands together or something during "Ladies who Lunch" yesterday? It really bugged me.
misschung
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
#47re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/25/07 at 6:03pm
lol no - thats really weird though.
hearthatstrue
Stand-by Joined: 9/10/05
#48re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/25/07 at 6:27pm
Hm, I didn't hear anything like that, obsessed. Then again, I didn't even know that there were people surrounding me during that number. Barbara Walsh is that incredible.
And I'm glad that I'm not the only one who was bothered by the high-pitched noise. So annoying.
ben4
Stand-by Joined: 6/10/07
#49re: rOcKS @ 'Company'
Posted: 6/26/07 at 10:28am
I was there on Saturday evenings performance. I was sitting directly front-row center.
Not much more I can add to the already glowering praise for the show, except to say that it truly is one of the best revivals I've seen and one of the few I think daring enough to do such a radically reimagining of an already beloved musical.
Great stuff, and I'll definately be picking up the cast album (whenever I get money that is).
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