| Woman of the Year & Company -- in Chicago last week | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 02:34 pm EST 11/22/17 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 02:26 pm EST 11/22/17 | |
| In reply to: Woman of the Year in Chicago - PlazaBoy 12:42 am EST 11/22/17 | |
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| I caught the last performance of Woman of the Year on Thurs., 11/16 and it pretty much was a fully staged performance. Everyone was off-book -- there was as much of a set as Porchlight ever provides -- the actors were in costume. Murphy and Dahlquist are close to being A-list musical comedy performers (in Chicago) and certainly Sean Blake and Cisco Lopez (Phil Whitaker) are established A-list featured performers (in Chicago). I went in with low expectations because this show is supposed to be minor Kander & Ebb, but it turned out to be a very solid, highly respectable musical comedy. The score does an excellent job of defining Tess and Sam and telling us their story. After finally seeing a production of Woman of the Year, I need to bump the K & E score up a knotch or two (in my estimation)-- it's delightful. I also took in Northwestern U.'s production of Company on Sun., 11/19 and was a tad disappointed. It was enjoyable -- the cast was fine as college actors go. The guy who portrayed Bobby gave a strong performance, adding a touching layer of vulnerability that was definitely missing in the previous production I saw last year at Writers Theatre in Glencoe. William Brown, who directed this production as well as the Writers one, seems hell-bent on doing his own version of Company, different than any that I have ever seen. He includes "Marry Me a Little" in Act 1,"Tick Tock" is not used, and eliminates the scene between Peter and Bobby where they discuss earlier same-sex encounters. For the N.U. production some of the language was sanitized and the scene with Bobby and April in bed was cut. |
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