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Interesting take on the casting

Posted by: BroadwayLouBlaze 03:11 pm EDT 03/16/14
In reply to: TALES FROM RED VIENNA (Tonight) - enoch10 02:20 am EDT 03/15/14

Do you think though that casting that "type" of actor would have just played into the lazy melodrama of the whole thing. Or maybe it did not strike you as being that. Interested in your thoughts? Also, don't forget He was a post war socialist journalist in Vienna. I don't know, that might have added a real vibrant dimension to things. Of course, would/could this have drawn more attention to the political subtext? I am not sure the play could really carry that weight. But I am with you in terms of something...anything to add a much needed intrigue and drive. Which is what I assume you are suggesting.


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re: Interesting take on the casting

Posted by: enoch10 04:25 pm EDT 03/16/14
In reply to: Interesting take on the casting - BroadwayLouBlaze 03:11 pm EDT 03/16/14

>> Do you think though that casting that "type" of actor would have just played into the lazy melodrama of the whole thing.

no. not at all. i think it could have potentially saved the production. i can't stress enough how much i don't blame the actor for this. i've seen him before. he's good. i think he was miscast but the problem is still the director. miscast or not he could have been better than he was if he had just played the character as written. she had him playing jorgen tesman when he should have been playing zorba or tevya or, at the very least, some combination of eljert lovborg and judge brack. that wasn't an actor with no talent it was an actor undone by a director who didn't understand the character.


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re: Interesting take on the casting

Posted by: BroadwayLouBlaze 06:19 pm EDT 03/16/14
In reply to: re: Interesting take on the casting - enoch10 04:25 pm EDT 03/16/14

Oh...ok. I think we may have slightly different takes on this character. But we are in the same ballpark. You know in thinking abouthis play...I really do npt feel I have seen it. The production is so far from where I think it wants to be. the show as a whole just does not resonate.


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