"Also, for what it’s worth, I remember it being basically a full and virtually complete production. I certainly remember a running time of 2:45 or so, if not 3 hours outright. It’s possible they made some minor trims to the book... but it felt, played and was staged as FAR more than a concert production, closer to the NYPhil Sweeney Todd or Company, or what, say, Encores has done over the last decade as opposed to what they started as 25 years ago."
Thanks, your memory on that is probably much more accurate than mine. I don't remember the running time being that long, and I was just thinking back that they probably wouldn't have done most of the dialogue in a concert setting like that in Avery Fisher, but I guess they did :-)
Yes, James Brennan directed the show -- I was glad that, some time later, I got to tell him in person how much I loved it. And I should have mentioned that Charles Kimbrough was perfection as Pickering. |
