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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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