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re: THE HEIDI CHRONICLES returning to B'way with Elisabeth Moss

Posted by: bobby2 12:02 am EDT 09/12/14
In reply to: THE HEIDI CHRONICLES returning to B'way with Elisabeth Moss - MockingbirdGirl 02:17 pm EDT 09/11/14

Not many box office draws in the cast. I see small ticket sales.

I never really got why that play was so acclaimed.


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re: THE HEIDI CHRONICLES returning to B'way with Elisabeth Moss

Posted by: BruceinIthaca 01:56 am EDT 09/12/14
In reply to: re: THE HEIDI CHRONICLES returning to B'way with Elisabeth Moss - bobby2 12:02 am EDT 09/12/14

Me neither--and I say that as someone who did enjoy "Uncommon Women" and "The Sisters Rosenzweig." And I was not greatly impressed with Moss in "Speed-the-Plow" (granted, it's a pretty thankless role in a lot of ways)--for me, she didn't project (not in the sense of too little volume, but too little sending forth of character into the imagined world of the play). I find her voice rather monotone in quality--I can't imagine anchoring that play around so mousy an actress. She's fine as Peggy on the small screen, and her style fits that character's passive-aggressive funk, but Heidi needs to have more of something--Joan Allen was at least an actress equal to the role.


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re: THE HEIDI CHRONICLES returning to B'way with Elisabeth Moss

Posted by: AlanScott 05:18 pm EDT 09/12/14
In reply to: re: THE HEIDI CHRONICLES returning to B'way with Elisabeth Moss - BruceinIthaca 01:56 am EDT 09/12/14

The Sisters Rosenzweig was one of those plays that seemed about to end two or three times before it finally did, but perhaps that was because I saw a replacement cast (although they seemed excellent). It was entertaining, but I was so ready for it to be over. Still, it was better than The Heidi Chronicles. Admittedly, I also saw that one with a replacement cast.

After seeing it, I talked with a friend who'd seen the original cast. And everything that I found problematic about it but that I thought perhaps had worked better with the original cast, he said was also problematic with the original cast.

I remember liking the early stuff more.


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re: THE HEIDI CHRONICLES returning to B'way with Elisabeth Moss

Posted by: comedywest 03:32 pm EDT 09/15/14
In reply to: re: THE HEIDI CHRONICLES returning to B'way with Elisabeth Moss - AlanScott 05:18 pm EDT 09/12/14

I think her best is Uncommon Women, and I only saw a showcase in the 1990s--as well as the PBS version.

I am finally reading and really enjoying Wasserstein's bio by Julie Salamon.


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re: THE HEIDI CHRONICLES returning to B'way with Elisabeth Moss

Posted by: bobby2 04:26 am EDT 09/12/14
In reply to: re: THE HEIDI CHRONICLES returning to B'way with Elisabeth Moss - BruceinIthaca 01:56 am EDT 09/12/14

Sadly I found the biography about Wendy Wasserstein more interesting than any of her plays.


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re: THE HEIDI CHRONICLES returning to B'way with Elisabeth Moss

Posted by: Jackson 12:21 am EDT 09/12/14
In reply to: re: THE HEIDI CHRONICLES returning to B'way with Elisabeth Moss - bobby2 12:02 am EDT 09/12/14

"I never really got why that play was so acclaimed."

Me, too. Give me "The Sisters Rosenzweig" any day.

J


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I was rather hoping...

Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 10:29 am EDT 09/12/14
In reply to: re: THE HEIDI CHRONICLES returning to B'way with Elisabeth Moss - Jackson 12:21 am EDT 09/12/14

... to see the previously mooted Elisabeth Moss/Keira Knightly Children's Hour instead.


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re: I was rather hoping...

Posted by: AlanScott 05:13 pm EDT 09/12/14
In reply to: I was rather hoping... - MockingbirdGirl 10:29 am EDT 09/12/14

I'd rather see that, too, and that's a role for which Moss seems more right.


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