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| Posted by: tealady 07:19 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
| In reply to: My Fair Lady last night - StanS 12:09 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| i also did not like it. Thank you StanS for pointing out its not the be all and end all of MFL. i found the set changes dumb, again actors and stagehands moving the set around. the big turn table left the action playing over the moat of the apron. i was just off center section and got tired of seeing the stagehands and dressers in the wing when the side rags flew up for the set change. i hated her ball dress, what a disappointment. her hair don't a bun plop on the top of her head... what... they spent all the money on the dress, and a good hairdresser was out of Higgins price range... the awning for the ascot scene upstaged the action... really it had to pivot and then pull up... wow it was a total focus pull the accents were miss placed. Higgins, a nice performance but i started to look at the cracks in the walls. Best thing... the onstage band for the Ball, that was simply wonderful... over all i am glad I saw it, but once will be enough. send me back to Oklahoma. miss T |
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| Another naysayer here | |
| Posted by: wisebear 07:45 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
| In reply to: re: My Fair Lady last night - tealady 07:19 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| I was disappointed, too. I thought the direction was a mess. The spinning set wore out quickly. The flys were constantly distracting, as were the stagehands. Holding the table in place was absurd. I agree with your hatred of the ball gown, but even more ridiculous is that she entered from...the bathroom. Well, from the room where they previously bathed her. Of all times not to use the staircase! Agree about the awning - what a distracting fuss. Haddon-Patton left me cold. While I appreciate he didn't want to approximate Harrison's speak-song, the written notes were simply too low for him. Much lost humor, and an annoyingly repetitive song delivery style. So much punching the air. Ambrose's thin, reedy soprano didn't work for me, and her acting seemed mechanical. There was no belt when she needed it, and no passion, no fire. I agree that Butz seemed to be in a different show. The staging and choreography of his numbers did him no favors. I did adore Dame Diana, and especially enjoyed Linda Mugleston as Mrs. Pearce. While I, too, grew up on the OBC album, that's not my touchstone. My thrilling MFL was the sublime '75-'76 revival - Christine Andreas, Ian Richardson, and the immensely talented but so sadly damaged George Rose. That was something. |
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| re: My Fair Lady last night | |
| Posted by: caseyko 07:25 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
| In reply to: re: My Fair Lady last night - tealady 07:19 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| Nice first world problems we all have! Seeing it next month. |
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| re: My Fair Lady last night | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 07:38 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
| In reply to: re: My Fair Lady last night - caseyko 07:25 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| "Nice first world problems we all have!" Sometimes I think that, too. A friend once got very upset when I posted that most of what we discuss here is pretty trivial (and I was referring to what I had just posted). But still . . . this site is devoted to first-world matters. That's why we all come here. |
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