| re: At Home with Diane Paulus | |
| Last Edit: lordofspeech 05:25 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 05:24 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
| In reply to: re: At Home with Diane Paulus - CCentero 03:13 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
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| So happy that this SUCCESSFUL theatre artist can afford an apartment and furniture. I'm sure she still has less than politicians like Obama, the Clintons, Trump, the Bushes....BUT SHE HAS A NICE PLACE TO LIVE!!!! I think that's something to celebrate. Artists should have as much as politicians! My opinion. And I went to a number of her productions and never felt gypped I liked HAIR. A lot. A whole lot, and not just because of Creel and company, but for some way the chaos surprisingly made way for a cohesive plea for peace. I thought her staging was wonderfully invisible and yet cohesive. I never saw the original Fosse PIPPIN, but I liked this one pretty well, and I think putting the circus thing in it made both critics and audience feel good about it and gave it a sell-able brand. And Paulus' production brought us the multi-layered performance of Rachel Bay Jones (hope I have the right name) redefining the Jill Clayburgh role. That was a performance for the ages. So that made the whole show worthwhile. PORGY AND BESS may have made a mistake in having Porgy not be a cripple (which threw everything else in the plot and every other character, especially Bess, in the piece askew), but it was worth a shot to try that, even if only to make sure no one ever tries that again But it was pretty exciting to watch (and be astonished by) Audra McDonald's virtuoso technique, and to see it and then reflect upon all the different criticisms and histories of the original script which were occasioned by this production. I also saw Ms. Paulus' production at Columbia of her adaptation of my favorite James Baldwin novel. And that was good, too. She's no slouch. She's not perfect, but, then, probably neither was Abe Burrows, and even Hal Prince wasn't. |
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