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re: Scott Ellis is the busiest director on Broadway, handling three shows

Posted by:	AlanScott 03:24 pm EST 01/19/15
In reply to:	re: Scott Ellis is the busiest director on Broadway, handling three shows - BruceinIthaca 11:47 pm EST 01/18/15

I recently saw You Can't Take It With You with the two replacement cast members. I thought it was fairly good, but not as good as it could have been or should have been with that cast. I came home and watched the video of the 1983 production, and it was interesting to compare the two. The point of the view of both productions was perhaps similar and yet they took opposite approaches to convey that point of view. In the Rabb production, the Sycamores seemed mildly eccentric so there wasn't as much distance between the Sycamores and the Kirbys as Alice and the Kirbys thought. A similar point seemed to be in Ellis's mind, but he got there by upping the Kirbys' eccentricities. I enjoyed the Ellis production, but it did seem that so many people in the cast were pushing so hard to get across their eccentricities and to be funny. It was interesting to then watch the Rabb production and see how low-key it was in comparison, yet still very funny. In short, the Sycamores in the Rabb production seemed much more like people you might actually meet somewhere.

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