| re: My experience of Channing and Bishop |
| Last Edit: 15minutecall 12:56 am EDT 06/27/18 |
| Posted by: 15minutecall 12:46 am EDT 06/27/18 |
| In reply to: My experience of Channing and Bishop - AlanScott 12:37 am EDT 06/27/18 |
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| I agree with all you write here (and thank you for the kind shout out). I saw Bishop, as an understudy, in a pretty full house (sold out before the announcement of Channing's sickness). The laughs were not as plentiful or galvanic. But the payoff was sufficient compensation for me. Bishop used her hauteur as a mask for loneliness. Paul was a son to her, and the emotional connection which was created during his discussion of his thesis showed her what she was missing with Flan. Channing played her response to the speech as a joke, though it was wedded to an intellectual respect. Her social grasping was kept in the forefront and that's where she connected with Paul, whether she consciously recognized it or not. They were kindred spirits. That's why her Ouisa was a bad match for insider Flan. This made for a far different kind of connection, with much less emotion. Channing would take the production's only pause before "We're a terrible match" but that didn't create the epiphany that was intimated. |
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