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| Company: Lenk and Lupone? | |
| Posted by: jconnors 07:41 pm EDT 08/29/19 | |
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| There's a promo image floating around Twitter featuring their names and a March 20, 2020 opening date. It's also here: | |
| Link | Company on Broadway |
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| re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years | |
| Posted by: Duke1979 10:53 am EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: Company: Lenk and Lupone? - jconnors 07:41 pm EDT 08/29/19 | |
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| It is indeed hard to believe how much time has gone by since the original production. Just sorry that Hal Prince will not be there. This is certain to add excitement to the season and I’m glad they are putting it in the Jacobs. | |
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| is April 26 outside of this years tony season | |
| Last Edit: dramedy 07:58 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
| Posted by: dramedy 07:58 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years - Duke1979 10:53 am EDT 08/30/19 | |
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| It would have been cool to open the same day 50 years later. | |
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| By one day | |
| Posted by: dramedy 08:58 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: is April 26 outside of this years tony season - dramedy 07:58 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
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| April 25 | |
| Link | https://www.tonyawards.com/tonynight/calendar/ |
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| three, probably | |
| Posted by: sirpupnyc 09:16 am EDT 08/31/19 | |
| In reply to: By one day - dramedy 08:58 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
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| April 25 was 2019's cutoff date. If the 2020 awards are June 7, keeping the same distance would make the cutoff April 23. |
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| what was the cut off for the 24th? | |
| Posted by: garyd 10:13 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: By one day - dramedy 08:58 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
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| I know it aired on April 19th and the 25th even earlier. | |
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| re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 05:52 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years - Duke1979 10:53 am EDT 08/30/19 | |
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| Hate to be this guy, but I doubt very much Prince would like this production at all. I think he'd like that the show keeps being reinvented and reaching and touching and entertaining new audiences... but that's probably it. And the sluggish direction of the show, and confusing direction of the scenes, would probably displease him a lot given that he was known for the opposite as a director. | |
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| re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years | |
| Posted by: jconnors 06:20 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years - Chazwaza 05:52 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
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| Sluggish direction of the show? Confusing direction of the scenes? Not any of the three times I saw it. Other than the unnecessary dance montage for Another Hundred People (wehich I know some liked), I thought the show fired on all cylinders. |
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| re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 11:44 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years - jconnors 06:20 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
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| Yes, as you may recall we been mortal enemies / polar opposites in our opinions of this Company. I imagine that won't change. Though I do think Lenk will be a much better fit as an actor, so I'm excited to see her in it. | |
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| re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years | |
| Posted by: sf 06:39 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years - jconnors 06:20 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
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| Agreed. I had some bones to pick with it, and I will say that I felt it didn't hold up particularly well on a return viewing, but there was nothing 'sluggish' about the pacing, either at a late preview or a month or so before the end of the run, and there was certainly nothing 'confusing' about the way the scenes were directed. | |
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| re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 11:42 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years - sf 06:39 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
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| We must have seen different shows. Never has Company felt SO LONG to me before - not just because of the pacing and unnecessary scene changes moments added everywhere, but because of laser sharp focus on the PLAY and the scenes that make it up have changed in ways that do not as properly support a clear set of relationships with the couple and internal struggles for Bobby. We fully disagree on this, and that's fine. But even the friend I saw it with who liked it more than I did agree it felt much slower than usual. And with a show like that, extra unneeded time puts unwelcomed pressure on the show scene by scene to be new and amount to "enough" to make it worth the time, and things that are developing a theme just start seeming redundant in a slower show or longer running time. |
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| re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years | |
| Posted by: sf 04:14 am EDT 08/31/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years - Chazwaza 11:42 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
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| "And with a show like that, extra unneeded time puts unwelcomed pressure on the show scene by scene to be new and amount to "enough" to make it worth the time, and things that are developing a theme just start seeming redundant in a slower show or longer running time." What "extra time"? The running time was pretty much exactly the same as the last stage production of the show I saw (Sheffield Crucible, 2010, with Daniel Evans as Bobby and Francesca Annis as Joanne; Rosalie Craig played April) - and also, actually, pretty much exactly the same as the running time of the Neil Patrick Harris DVD. |
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| re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years | |
| Posted by: huskyital (huskyital@yahoo.com) 08:44 am EDT 08/31/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years - sf 04:14 am EDT 08/31/19 | |
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| We had day seats....sat up close and we all enjoyed it even a friend who disliked the original.....although I loved the original.....I will see it again in New York. | |
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| re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years | |
| Posted by: jconnors 08:33 am EDT 08/31/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years - sf 04:14 am EDT 08/31/19 | |
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| Exactly. A few book scenes might have benefited from a slightly faster pace, but the need was negligible. | |
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| re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 05:40 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years - Duke1979 10:53 am EDT 08/30/19 | |
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| If Prince were still here, there's a good chance that he would not go to see it. He wrote in Sense of Occasion that he rarely went to see revivals of the musicals he had directed. "Excellent as I'm sure so many of them are, I retain an impression of the original, and often I miss the metaphor which informed the original production." Of course, he might still have been pleased that Company was still getting done, but that seems like something that would please Sondheim more. Whether this version would please Furth is something we'll never know. |
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| re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 02:46 pm EDT 09/03/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years - AlanScott 05:40 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
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| Do we know if he saw either of the two Broadway revivals prior to this one? He was a better man than I am...I'd be insanely curious about how others had interpreted something that I had a hand in shaping, if only to be able to intelligently talk to my friends about how they missed the point. |
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| re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years | |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 05:39 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? 50 years - Duke1979 10:53 am EDT 08/30/19 | |
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| Smart casting. Lenk, however entrancing, has that odd-girl-out quality which should make her Bobbie’s singleness make sense. Probably a no-brainer since she just won a big prize. But I think it’s very smart. |
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| re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? | |
| Posted by: sirpupnyc 11:01 pm EDT 08/29/19 | |
| In reply to: Company: Lenk and Lupone? - jconnors 07:41 pm EDT 08/29/19 | |
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| The Riedel column linked there mentions Company and a lot more...if any of it's true it livens up the season a bit... | |
| Link | https://nypost.com/2019/08/29/billy-crystals-mr-saturday-night-musical-scores-early-buzz/ |
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| I’m surprised music man isn’t at the shubert | |
| Posted by: dramedy 03:15 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? - sirpupnyc 11:01 pm EDT 08/29/19 | |
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| But not surprised that rudin will keep the shubert for his next show. ALW’s last show was a hit at the winter garden so why not keep the winning streak. Beetlejuice transfer would be a million wasted. Just put the sets and costumes on tour. | |
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| re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 10:36 pm EDT 08/29/19 | |
| In reply to: Company: Lenk and Lupone? - jconnors 07:41 pm EDT 08/29/19 | |
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| I can’t believe 2020 is a thing right now. Only 4 months away! | |
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| we were worried about y2k this time | |
| Posted by: dramedy 03:07 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? - KingSpeed 10:36 pm EDT 08/29/19 | |
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| 20 years ago. | |
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| Finally! | |
| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 02:37 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? - KingSpeed 10:36 pm EDT 08/29/19 | |
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| From 2016-2020 has felt like an endless abyss... | |
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| re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? | |
| Posted by: carolinaguy 08:08 pm EDT 08/29/19 | |
| In reply to: Company: Lenk and Lupone? - jconnors 07:41 pm EDT 08/29/19 | |
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| Opening on Sondheim’s 90th is cool. There are also rumors that Matt Doyle is Jamie. |
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| re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? | |
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| Posted by: WaymanWong 03:50 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? - carolinaguy 08:08 pm EDT 08/29/19 | |
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| I bet Matt Doyle would be wonderful, but I was hoping Olivier Award winner Jonathan Bailey would reprise his role as Jamie. | |
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| re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? | |
| Posted by: kess0078 08:48 pm EDT 08/29/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? - carolinaguy 08:08 pm EDT 08/29/19 | |
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| I heard rumors of Lenk, but also that Lauren Ambrose was being considered - this was a few weeks ago so that may be old news, but I am intrigued by BOTH of these possibilities! | |
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| It is official now | |
| Posted by: barna99 08:02 am EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? - kess0078 08:48 pm EDT 08/29/19 | |
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| Link | https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-COMPANY-Will-Open-On-Broadway-This-Spring-Starring-Lenk-LuPone-20190830 |
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| re: It is official now | |
| Posted by: BroadwayNate 10:02 am EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: It is official now - barna99 08:02 am EDT 08/30/19 | |
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| I was sooooo excited for this to come over and then I saw it is starring Katrina Lenk..... To me, and I know others won't agree with me and that's TOTALLY fine, but for me she is soooooooooo boring to watch on stage. Not as boring as Jennifer Damiano, but pretty damn close. Of course I'll go for La LuPone and hopefully there will be others in the cast I will like, but boy was I disappointed to see they weren't bringing Rosalie Craig over. |
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| re: It is official now | |
| Posted by: sf 04:40 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: re: It is official now - BroadwayNate 10:02 am EDT 08/30/19 | |
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| "Of course I'll go for La LuPone and hopefully there will be others in the cast I will like, but boy was I disappointed to see they weren't bringing Rosalie Craig over." We don't know, of course, whether Ms. Craig wanted to go in the first place. For a start, she has a young child, and it's a BIG deal to either uproot your family or be away from them for a period of between several months and a year. And that's without contemplating the various reasons someone who lives in another country might, at the moment, be reluctant to spend time in the US. |
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| re: It is official now | |
| Posted by: jconnors 10:14 am EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: re: It is official now - BroadwayNate 10:02 am EDT 08/30/19 | |
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| I thought Craig did fine, but was not anything unique that merited her coming over for this production. But I also am a bit skeptical of Lenk in the role. Hope to be happily proven wrong. | |
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| Still hopeful. | |
| Posted by: portenopete 12:19 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: re: It is official now - jconnors 10:14 am EDT 08/30/19 | |
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| I saw it in London and agree with you on both counts. I loved Lenk in Band's Visit so I know that she's got s**t going on inside, but she doesn't seem the type to bust open emotionally the Bobby needs too. (Felt the same about Craig.) Sorry sweet Jonny Bailey isn't coming but Matt Doyle should be good. |
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| re: Still hopeful. | |
| Posted by: jconnors 02:33 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: Still hopeful. - portenopete 12:19 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
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| Agree on Bailey/Doyle. I saw Bailey twice in London (early in run and then near the end). He was out of control and manic the second go around. I am a tad bemused at those folks who seem to think because of the ovation he received for Not Getting Married Today that he was uniquely successful in this role ... as if any actor competently performing the number would not get the same response. Of course the London staging's business with the priest did have a few special moments, ones I hope they repeat and/or build upon here. |
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| Website is live | |
| Posted by: CT2NYC 07:56 am EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Company: Lenk and Lupone? - kess0078 08:48 pm EDT 08/29/19 | |
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| It's official! | |
| Link | COMPANY Broadway Website |
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