| re: MACK AND MABEL Tonight (spoilers) | |
| Posted by: ms721 09:43 pm EST 02/23/20 | |
| In reply to: re: MACK AND MABEL Tonight (spoilers) - Michael_Portantiere 12:25 pm EST 02/23/20 | |
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| My friend and I went into the show knowing almost nothing on Friday night. I had seen the Encores! revue with a couple of scenes, and he knew Mabel's name from a Stevie Nicks song. Neither of us had any problem following the story and both of us enjoyed the show. I thought that Mabel's addiction was obvious from the start in Act 1, when we see her downing pills and then into when Desmond gives her the "angel dust." I had been worried about understanding Doug Sills and people's comments about the chemistry between him and Alexandra Socha, but I had no issues with either. Mr. Sills (or someone else) might have been monitoring the boards, and his enunciation was pretty clear. Our seats are in Orchestra Row L, under the Grand Tier overhang, so if things are going to be muffled, I expect it to be there. I thought there was a good chemistry between the leads, appropriate for the relationship they were playing. I loved Ms. Socha when she did "Paint Your Wagon" at Encores! and was impressed by how she has matured from that ingenue to Mabel's eventual self-discovery. I had no trouble following the action during "Tap Your Troubles Away," possibly because I was looking a bit off to my left and noticed the actor enter with the gun at the top of the stairs and was bracing myself for a gunshot. But I agree the fact that Ms. Socha and the actress playing Desmond's lover were dressed similarly could make them difficult to distinguish, and the subtlety of the red stains on Ms. Socha's gloves might have been hard to see. I am not a fan of long dance numbers, which may be why I was looking away and noticed the husband. I also found the Keystone Cops number a bit wearing and found my mind wandering and wondered if that was the same gorilla from "High Button Shoes." A couple of fun moments happened Friday night. Lottie (I think) dropped the egg tossed to her and it bounced. Doug Sills laughed and said, "Good thing it's hard boiled." Then in Act 2, when the two producers entered, he called one of them "Mr. Sennett," then said "Oops, that's me." The two men started miming drinking to each other, and it took all three a moment to collect themselves. As someone else asked earlier, I would like to know if Lottie is based on anyone in real life or is an amalgam of people Mack and Mabel worked with. |
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