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| One place where we do agree 100%... | |
| Last Edit: Singapore/Fling 08:24 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 08:22 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
| In reply to: re: FULFILLMENT CENTER Last Night - Singapore/Fling 05:11 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
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| Short plays are very in vogue from a production standpoint, and one reason for that is because they're a better investment in terms of rehearsal. Something under 90 minutes can either be rehearsed in a shorter time period (2 - 3 weeks, rather than 4 - 6), or it can spend longer in rehearsal getting sharper and deeper (one reason that I think "A Doll's House Part 2" arrived so polished). Particularly with young theaters, where the need to impress is high and the cash in hand is low, that 90 minute play is very appealing; though the same is true with Broadway, where good runs are short and margins are tight. I also think that longer commuting times have had an impact. As more local theater goers live 45 - 60 minutes away due to rising rents, there's more incentive to get people out of the theater by 9:45. I have to be at work the next morning, and if I don't get a good 8 hours I'm useless, so it's nice to be home before 11:00. (which was another reason I loved "A Doll's House Part 2"). |
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| re: One place where we do agree 100%... | |
| Posted by: summertheater 08:55 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
| In reply to: One place where we do agree 100%... - Singapore/Fling 08:22 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
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| The play was a huge bore. It felt like a writing exercise. Great actors wasted on a horrible play. After 95 minutes of that, I doubt anyone wanted a 15 minute intermission followed by another 95 minute bore (to make for a 3.5 hour evening!) There'd have been a mass exodus out of the theater if there was an intermission in that 95 minute bore. | |
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| A Doll's House 2 | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 09:12 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
| In reply to: re: One place where we do agree 100%... - summertheater 08:55 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
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| I appreciate the enthusiasm of your review, but I have to disagree that it was a bore. I found it a jolly good romp through these characters and their marriage, albeit one with a disappointing ending (if you can't get characters off well, get them off quickly, as a writing professor used to say). I wouldn't have needed another 95 minutes of that play, but I would gladly have stuck around to see what it was like, which isn't always the case. 90 minutes of "The Flick" was just about as much of "The Flick" as I could stand, though I had a good time hanging out in the experience.... I made it through less of "John", but then I thoroughly got wrapped up in the strange incantation that was "The Antipodes". |
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| Fulfillment Center | |
| Posted by: summertheater 09:31 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
| In reply to: A Doll's House 2 - Singapore/Fling 09:12 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
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| Oh I totally loved A Doll's House Part 2 (that was 88 minutes running time). I thought Fulfillment Center was a bore at Manhattan Theater Club Stage II. | |
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| re: Fulfillment Center | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 10:15 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
| In reply to: Fulfillment Center - summertheater 09:31 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
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| Oh, yeah. For once we agree. :-) | |
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| re: Fulfillment Center | |
| Posted by: lowwriter 08:23 am EDT 07/05/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Fulfillment Center - Singapore/Fling 10:15 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
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| I wasn't bored. I did think the play ended abruptly and that the playwright should go back and dig deeper. | |
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