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re: NYCO A Little Night Music Thoughts?

Posted by:	larry13 07:55 am EDT 09/10/14
In reply to:	re: NYCO A Little Night Music Thoughts? - MeredithChandler1973 07:08 am EDT 09/10/14

If it was in 2003 that I saw the NYCO do NIGHT MUSIC, I thought it was pretty bad despite several wonderful performers(e.g. Pawk and Kudisch). Juliet Stevenson was miscast as Desiree, Claire Bloom was at sea as her mother, Jeremy Irons isn't a singer and the whole thing suffered from being done in a huge theater with poor acoustics and in the(typical?)misguided NYCO way with operettas.

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re: NYCO A Little Night Music Thoughts?

Posted by:	lordofspeech 10:08 am EDT 09/10/14
In reply to:	re: NYCO A Little Night Music Thoughts? - larry13 07:55 am EDT 09/10/14

I too saw the Juliet Stevenson Jeremy Irons production. And it just didn't do it for me. And I don't know why. Maybe it was "miscasting." Maybe Jeremy Irons was too urbane and self-aware? Maybe Juliet S has too much air and not enough earth? Maybe the fullness of the acting was more than the style and the story could bear? Maybe the space was too big, and I was too far away? I just remember being slightly disappointed. However, I never saw it as caught on videotape. That might've focused it.

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