| Can we discuss / analyze? What's really required for a Fosca performance to work? | |
| Posted by: GrumpyMorningBoy 05:23 pm EST 03/01/19 | |
| In reply to: did anyone see a Fosca besides Donna in the original PASSION? - Chazwaza 02:54 am EST 03/01/19 | |
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| Sadly, I've never seen it live. I've only seen taped productions. But I'm convinced that Fosca is one of the hardest roles in the entire canon, not just the Sondheim canon, and I'm not exactly sure WHAT Fosca needs to do to make you care about her, view her as sympathetic and lovely, instead of controlling and pathetic. How did Ms. Murphy (or any other Fosca) pull it off? Can the audience feel ambivalent about Fosca and still find the work satisfying? Do they NEED to be rooting for her? And if the audience isn't pulling for her, but really wants to see Giorgio end up with Clara, does the whole show fail to move us as we should? From the outside, it really doesn't seem to me that Sondheim or Lapine did the role many favors in the writing. It just seems like a herculean lift to make the audience -- and Giorgio -- want what she wants. Any observations / analysis from someone who's spent more time with the piece than I have? - GMB |
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