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| Any reports on Travesties? | |
| Posted by: Duke1979 09:12 am EDT 04/03/18 | |
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| Stoppard fan but have never seen this one performed. Thx | |
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| Is there another play called travesties? | |
| Posted by: dramedy 03:13 pm EDT 04/03/18 | |
| In reply to: Any reports on Travesties? - Duke1979 09:12 am EDT 04/03/18 | |
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| I thought I saw this but looking at the plot summary, it's not what I remember. What I recall was an Irish family falling apart and the patriarch dies at the end of the first act. I saw it about 30 years ago, maybe someone knows the title of the show I saw. | |
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| re: Is there another play called travesties? | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 04:10 pm EDT 04/03/18 | |
| In reply to: Is there another play called travesties? - dramedy 03:13 pm EDT 04/03/18 | |
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| Are you thinking of Translations, by Brian Friel? Manhattan Theater Club did it in 1981, and there was a Broadway revival in 1995. | |
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| probably | |
| Posted by: dramedy 04:51 pm EDT 04/03/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Is there another play called travesties? - keikekaze 04:10 pm EDT 04/03/18 | |
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| The wiki plot sounds more like what I remembered. Thanks. I knew someone would figure it out | |
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| Saw it Thursday night | |
| Posted by: NJGUY 02:32 pm EDT 04/03/18 | |
| In reply to: Any reports on Travesties? - Duke1979 09:12 am EDT 04/03/18 | |
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| I may be in a minority, as I saw this in 1976 with John Wood at The Kennedy Center and I just saw this version on Thursday night at The Roundabout. For some reason, I remember thinking it was a lot funnier 40 years ago than Thursday's night experience. Yes it has some madcap moments, yet it never offers too many laughs (though there were some who were guffawing). The first act is 85 minutes and it feels like close to two hours. Luckily we stayed (though a good 15-20% of the audience left at intermission) and the second act was much better and shorter (just 45 minutes). Tom Hollander was fine as was the entire cast. Wanted to love it, yet the text is so academic and hard to follow, that I left feeling I should have gotten college credit for attending, and not a Playbill. I have seen pretty much every Tom Stoppard play and either this one does not hold up or it is not directed at the level of the original. Maybe they need to work on the pacing, as we saw the first performance (though there were no hiccups or line flubs). | |
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| re: Saw it Thursday night | |
| Posted by: jdm 03:17 pm EDT 04/03/18 | |
| In reply to: Saw it Thursday night - NJGUY 02:32 pm EDT 04/03/18 | |
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| While I have not seen this version yet, the original on Broadway was VERY funny, witty, clever, still my favorite Stoppard play. I am going to wait until I hear more about this production before I see it. Jim |
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| re: Saw it Thursday night | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 03:23 pm EDT 04/03/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Saw it Thursday night - jdm 03:17 pm EDT 04/03/18 | |
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| Back during the Punic Wars, when I was a student, I saw Frank Galati play the lead in the Wisdom Bridge production of Travesties--he won a very deserved Jeff Award for his performance. | |
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| re: Any reports on Travesties? | |
| Posted by: mamaleh 10:30 am EDT 04/03/18 | |
| In reply to: Any reports on Travesties? - Duke1979 09:12 am EDT 04/03/18 | |
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| Stoppard fans will be in their element at this crazy quilt melange of politics, literature and art. I was a bit lost. I’d never seen the earlier Broadway production so didn’t know quite what to expect, although I remember from other Stoppard works that he can be too clever for his own good. A good bit of Act 1 flew over my head even though I had read the useful background material in the playbill beforehand. The dozens of allusions fly by. While I admired Tom Holland’s bravura performance, his breakneck speed of line delivery proved challenging, at least to my ears. I found Act Two to be the more entertaining portion of the evening, with a delightful vaudevillian take on The Importance of Being Earnest. |
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| re: Any reports on Travesties? | |
| Posted by: irish17 11:25 am EDT 04/03/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Any reports on Travesties? - mamaleh 10:30 am EDT 04/03/18 | |
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| It's actually Tom Hollander, not Spiderman (Tom Holland) | |
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| re: Any reports on Travesties? | |
| Posted by: mamaleh 04:15 pm EDT 04/03/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Any reports on Travesties? - irish17 11:25 am EDT 04/03/18 | |
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| Oops—cobwebs on the brain, obviously. | |
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| No, but..... | |
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| Posted by: bwayjoey 10:07 am EDT 04/03/18 | |
| In reply to: Any reports on Travesties? - Duke1979 09:12 am EDT 04/03/18 | |
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| A friend of mine that works at Roundabout said a surprisingly large amount of people are requesting tickets for "Transvestites" at the box office and over the phone! | |
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| re: No, but..... | |
| Posted by: Haberville 01:03 pm EDT 04/03/18 | |
| In reply to: No, but..... - bwayjoey 10:07 am EDT 04/03/18 | |
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| Saw it in London at the tiny three-sided Menier Chocolate Factory and it's superb. Hollander is a marvel. No reason not to think it will play well on the American Airlines stage (or at least let's hope so). | |
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| re: No, but..... | |
| Posted by: Showtunegal 01:51 pm EDT 04/05/18 | |
| In reply to: re: No, but..... - Haberville 01:03 pm EDT 04/03/18 | |
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| I concur. I, too, saw it in London and assume it will move well--although transfers across the pond, even with the same cast, have sometimes flattened out. | |
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