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| re: Will we get Wit? I Am My Own Wife? Thomas Pain? Constitution? or group monologue plays? (nm) | |
| Posted by: ryhog 11:25 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
| In reply to: Will we get Wit? I Am My Own Wife? Thomas Pain? Constitution? or group monologue plays? (nm) - Chazwaza 10:52 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| Wit may be too unwelcome right now. I also think there are a number of two-handers that would work well. One other point here is that while Urie deserves major accolades, there was a LOT of direction in this (whether from the credited director, Urie, or someone else) and it makes a huge difference. |
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| re: Will we get Wit? I Am My Own Wife? Thomas Pain? Constitution? or group monologue plays? (nm) | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 12:23 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 12:07 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Will we get Wit? I Am My Own Wife? Thomas Pain? Constitution? or group monologue plays? (nm) - ryhog 11:25 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| I'm going to guess that Urie handled the direction for his acting, having done it SOOO many times for so long, and that Paul Wontorek (the credited broadcast director) did the camera direction between the two cameras Urie had set up. Paul is a Broadway.com reporter, editor, producer (and founder I believe) and host of their "Show People" interview series (he's basically Broadway.com's Andy Cohen) but not, as far I've ever heard or read, a director or known as one. Other quarantine readings have had their original director return to direct the actors and little bits of staging... so I'm not sure why Urie would depend on someone with no professional directing experience to direct him in this ... which is why I assume he handled it himself. Or perhaps the original stage director did work with him on this (even if just to watch him do a few runs, maybe even with Paul directing the cameras but only broadcast to the original stage director)? I'd be curious to know more about how it worked. And of course I dont' want to shortchange Paul if he did actually directed Urie's acting beyond just "cross to this camera at this point", but even those crosses seemed cued entirely by text and performance needs, but who knows! |
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| re: Will we get Wit? I Am My Own Wife? Thomas Pain? Constitution? or group monologue plays? (nm) | |
| Posted by: ryhog 12:20 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Will we get Wit? I Am My Own Wife? Thomas Pain? Constitution? or group monologue plays? (nm) - Chazwaza 12:07 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
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| there was a director, Nic Cory, who was not the original director (I assume Brackett was not available for whatever reason) and I think there was more than just directing Urie's acting involved because there was a lot of angles, closeups, staging, etc., and someone has to make that happen and I agree it was not Wontorek (who, I think, was just flipping switches). | |
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| bravo director Nic Cory! | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 12:33 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Will we get Wit? I Am My Own Wife? Thomas Pain? Constitution? or group monologue plays? (nm) - ryhog 12:20 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
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| Ah yes, pardon for not looking that up. Extremely good work, Nic Cory! This has so far set a new standard for the visuals of these live play readings. | |
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