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To try to answer you a bit more fully

Posted by: AlanScott 07:32 pm EDT 09/10/14
In reply to: re: NYCO A Little Night Music Thoughts? - Chazwaza 01:59 pm EDT 09/10/14
By the time I saw it, at the Majestic, there were replacements as Fredrika and Frid. Both seemed undirected. Obviously, neither role is crucial to a production's success. And I kind of hate the things poor Frid has to say. The writing seems truly awkward to me so I can't blame any actor for having trouble making it believable.

And a couple of the other roles that were played well enough, I've nonetheless seen played perhaps a bit better in later productions, even if those productions overall were less good.

D'Jamin Bartlett acted the scenes well as Petra, and perhaps no one has sung "The Miller's Son" better in purely vocal terms, but dramatically her performance of the song was a bit neutral. It was somewhat like the song was being presented (not that her performance was presentational) rather than being really lived.

But then I've never seen or heard a performance of the song that fully satisfied me. It seems a very tough song to really get both dramatically and vocally. I do think Bartlett gave one of the best performances of the song I've seen or heard, but I wish she had hit more of the mix of desperation and resignation that I think are at the heart of it. She was probably the best Petra I've ever seen, but I want more from that song. I'd guess that neither Prince nor Sondheim helped her enough.

And I think the show probably did suffer, as Cariou later said, on the bigger stage of the Majestic. It still played well, but it looked a bit diffuse up there. They had built a new, bigger set for the Majestic, sending the original set on tour.


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