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re: TB REGIONAL REVIEW: "PARFUMERIE" in LOS ANGELES

Posted by:	showtunetrivia 10:45 pm EST 12/18/13
In reply to:	re: TB REGIONAL REVIEW: "PARFUMERIE" in LOS ANGELES - bicoastal 06:36 pm EST 12/18/13

Hey, bicoastal, I was there last night, too, with my daughter, and our views match yours closely. Lovely theatre, absolutely gorgeous set, solid performances, but there's a reason THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER is in the National Film Registry and SHE LOVES ME is cherished and regularly performed nearly fifty years later--they're much tighter works, with the focus on the lovers. And the credit goes to Ben Hecht and Samson Raphaelson, as well as Lubitsch, and to Joe Masteroff, for his brilliant libretto for SHE LOVES ME. The other key improvement they made was in showing the shop owner's good relationship with his chief clerk, and how it suddenly goes sour when he suspects him of the affair. In PARFUMERIE, Hammerschimdt is screaming at Georg from the start, and the characters have to tell the audience, "gee, he's not usually like that. What's his beef?" And rather than introducing Amalia as a new employee, PARFUMERIE has the pair working together almost as long as they've been corresponding. I couldn't' help but wonder why neither one recognized the other's handwriting at work, given the period. Did you find it weird that there was no gunshot at the end of the first act? Rebecca and I exchanged looks when the house lights came up and wondered if maybe he tried hanging himself. But they did confirm a gun in act two. Hungarian silencer? Laura

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