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| re: Can we discuss / analyze? What's really required for a Fosca performance to work? | |
| Posted by: GrumpyMorningBoy 06:32 pm EST 03/01/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Can we discuss / analyze? What's really required for a Fosca performance to work? - GrumpyMorningBoy 05:43 pm EST 03/01/19 | |
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| Okay, so I decided to put on the score while I try to work. First off, I have to amend the comment above. They hear drums. We hear music. Those drums aren't supposed to sound like love, apparently. BUT DAMN, Fosca is SO COMPLETELY IN THE WRONG during the "Garden Sequence"! Like, that is NOT OKAY. You don't just chew out someone who you've known for weeks, and think that this is the right approach to get someone to be your "friend"... GIRL. No. We need to get Laura Benanti's opinion on this. Link below. - GMB |
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| Link | "LIFE WITH LAURA": Laura Benanti is "Fosca," the New Favorite Times Square Mascot |
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| re: Can we discuss / analyze? What's really required for a Fosca performance to work? | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 08:01 pm EST 03/01/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Can we discuss / analyze? What's really required for a Fosca performance to work? - GrumpyMorningBoy 06:32 pm EST 03/01/19 | |
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| The "drums/music" reference is, I think, more to a simple bond between people - not specifically love. She's trying to tell Giorgio that she perceives him differently from the rest of the soldiers. "Perhaps it was the way you walked, the way you spoke to your men," she sings. He sees a man who (true or not) hears a beauty in something like a simple drumbeat, while for the others it's just a beat to march in line to. He, like she, she says, sees beauty in things where there doesn't seem to be beauty. I also love the way Fosca has to keep clarifying her thoughts (the wonderful wordplay with we/they and same/different): "They hear drums, You hear music, As do I, Don't you see? We're the same, We are different, You and I are different, They hear only drums..." |
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| re: Can we discuss / analyze? What's really required for a Fosca performance to work? | |
| Posted by: Quicheo 07:35 pm EST 03/01/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Can we discuss / analyze? What's really required for a Fosca performance to work? - GrumpyMorningBoy 06:32 pm EST 03/01/19 | |
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| In the words of John Bucchino: "One hates that leading character in proportion to how desperately they've shown their own need." | |
| Link | Playbill by Lupone |
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| re: Can we discuss / analyze? What's really required for a Fosca performance to work? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 09:19 pm EST 03/01/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Can we discuss / analyze? What's really required for a Fosca performance to work? - Quicheo 07:35 pm EST 03/01/19 | |
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| I do tend to think that's basically correct. I think that the people who react most negatively to the character (when she's portrayed warts and all) are those who've behaved (or at least felt) similarly themselves or perhaps experienced others who've behaved that way to them. I've felt this way since previews way back when. One time I sat in front of two people who just couldn't stop laughing at and commenting on Fosca, and I had to restrain myself from saying to them, "Why do you feel so threatened by this character's behavior?" |
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| re: Can we discuss / analyze? What's really required for a Fosca performance to work? | |
| Posted by: Quicheo 11:25 pm EST 03/01/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Can we discuss / analyze? What's really required for a Fosca performance to work? - AlanScott 09:19 pm EST 03/01/19 | |
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| It is quite something to create a character that engenders so much projection. | |
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