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re: It's one of the best things I've ever seen
Posted by: lowwriter 02:08 pm EDT 05/31/18
In reply to: It's one of the best things I've ever seen - Singapore/Fling 06:15 pm EDT 05/30/18

I do want to see this show and hope it comes to NYC.

I did find one of Green's observations alarming. He mentions that the show is playing as if in a large Broadway house rather than a 500 seat intimate theater.

I do think that is a problem with every show I've seen directed by Paulus, even ones I have liked. Her shows often play on one hyperkinetic high pitch with little room for subtler moments. It can get exhausting.
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re: It's one of the best things I've ever seen
Posted by: Singapore/Fling 08:59 pm EDT 06/01/18
In reply to: re: It's one of the best things I've ever seen - lowwriter 02:08 pm EDT 05/31/18

This was my first time going to A.R.T., but the theater didn't feel that intimate to me. It may be only 500 seats, but it's a quite tall, wide, and deep space (both on stage and in the audience), and the largeness fits with the scale of the music and the storytelling.

I do agree that the show has room to find more subtlety, and I wonder if they will keep working on the first 10 minutes (which felt like a first draft in a show that otherwise felt finished), but overall I found that they nailed a wide variety of emotional moments and experiences.
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