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| Posted by: NightMusic77 10:08 am EDT 07/16/18 | |
| In reply to: hyperbole? - KingSpeed 07:26 pm EDT 07/15/18 | |
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| No, far from hyperbole. I've seen this production over 10 times and yesterday was far and away the most explosive visit. Bernadette was visibly moved countless times throughout the show and yes the audience lept to its feet en masse several times. Yes, there's a lot of "best ever" hyperbole on this board. Bernadette Peters' closing performance doesn't fall into that category. I'm so glad I came. |
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| re: hyperbole? | |
| Posted by: jjhbb340 10:55 am EDT 07/16/18 | |
| In reply to: re: hyperbole? - NightMusic77 10:08 am EDT 07/16/18 | |
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| So glad you loved it too. When I first posted this last night I just wanted to say what a wonderful time it had been,never thought I was starting World War 3! She WAS wonderful and you just felt the whole cast knew it was a very special performance-everybody was at the top of their form! Rarely have I been so moved in the theater; you could just feel the love pouring from the stage. I'm so happy that other posters saw it and felt the same way. Guess you just had to be there,and as you said I'm certainly so glad I came! | |
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| re: hyperbole? | |
| Posted by: winters 11:47 am EDT 07/16/18 | |
| In reply to: re: hyperbole? - jjhbb340 10:55 am EDT 07/16/18 | |
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| Indeed it was a special afternoon. I don't understand why some people need to go and on about too many ovations...exactly.how many people stood....how many people stood willingly..... Ladies and gents......that was the magic of live theater. The energy.....the love.....yeah....the love For those irritated by mid-performance standing ovations (I can mostly count myself among them).....it is not advisable going to the final performance in a role of a beloved diva....especially one that fits so beautifully. In addition. My second time seeing Charlie Stemp in the role. He most definitely brought it up a notch. I believe that had he been an original cast member that he would have found himself a Tony nominee for best featured. |
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| re: hyperbole? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 07:09 pm EDT 07/16/18 | |
| In reply to: re: hyperbole? - winters 11:47 am EDT 07/16/18 | |
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| Last performances can be quite wonderful. That's why I've gone to so many of them, including what was supposed to have been Peters's last in Sunday in the Park With George. All I'm saying is that maybe it's time for us to consciously take it down a notch or two so that instead of jumping up multiple times during a performance and then even standing for an entire number, we could applaud loud and long. That sufficed for decades if not hundreds of years. I feel pretty certain that Peters felt lots of love from the audience at that performance of Sunday in the Park With George. I know that Mandy Patinkin felt lots of love from the audience at the last performance of Sunday in the Park With George because he made a long curtain-call speech during which he teared up and told the audience that if any of us passed any of the cast on the street at any time in the future, we should go up to the cast member and say that we were there that afternoon. |
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