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| re: Oh, I love Bernadette! | |
| Posted by: StanS 02:00 pm EST 12/20/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Oh, I love Bernadette! - Delvino 01:43 pm EST 12/19/17 | |
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| I guess mine is a minority opinion, but Peters' crying in "Clowns' spoiled it for me. In fact, to me she did the opposite of what Brantley said - she made a melodrama of it. I would have been much more moved if she kept it more understated. | |
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| re: Oh, I love Bernadette! | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 04:27 pm EST 12/20/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Oh, I love Bernadette! - StanS 02:00 pm EST 12/20/17 | |
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| "I guess mine is a minority opinion, but Peters' crying in 'Clowns' spoiled it for me. In fact, to me she did the opposite of what Brantley said - she made a melodrama of it. I would have been much more moved if she kept it more understated." It's possible that you and Brantley just had different reactions, but it's also safe to assume that Peters didn't play it exactly the same way at every performance. Perhaps her crying was more understated at certain performances than at others. When I saw the show, I would say it was quite understated and very moving. I do agree that song is most effective when the emotion in it is more understated than overt. |
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| re: Oh, I love Bernadette! | |
| Posted by: Delvino 11:14 am EST 12/21/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Oh, I love Bernadette! - Michael_Portantiere 04:27 pm EST 12/20/17 | |
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| I saw it July 27th. The Brantley review appeared the next week. It's possible that the performance changed, both day-to-day, and evolved (or the opposite). But though I generally like a lid kept on such displays of feeling in musicals -- to my thinking, the songs themselves are intended to do what tears do (generalizations dangerous, understood) -- this was one instance of genuinely believable catharsis. It re-minted an almost too-often-heard song in context, and I was swept up. | |
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