| I wish the production with Karen Ziemba and Brandon Uranowitz had come to Broadway. | |
| Posted by: GabbyGerard 10:42 am EDT 08/26/20 | |
| In reply to: re: How was Joan Rivers in Broadway Bound? - fredfrankg 09:26 am EDT 08/26/20 | |
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| Of course, it probably wasn't even considered because the Old Globe's production of Broadway Bound, which was performed in rep. with Brighton Beach Memoirs, soon followed the closing of the Broadway revival with Laurie Metcalf and a then mostly unknown Santino Fontana. It seemed to me the Globe programmed the plays to sort of right the wrong of the Broadway closure or at least finish the failed experiment. At any rate, in both productions, Ziemba delivered the best work of her already impressive career (I would also say the same thing about director Scott Schwartz, though his Lost in Yonkers at the Globe was also wonderful) and Uranowitz, long before Falsettos and An American in Paris, demonstrated that he was a STAR TO WATCH. As it should be, the scene where Kate recalls her experience of dancing with Raft was the emotional highlight of the production. Audience members who weren't familiar with Ziemba's life as a dancer (such as my then boyfriend) could be thoroughly moved by the scene, but, if you did know her work, it took on a whole new level of meaning. And, of course, the grace with which she danced was breathtaking, particularly because it was such a contrast to the workhorse physicality with which she carried herself at all other times in the production. I wish I could have seen Lavin, whom I think is just about the best stage actress of her generation, but it's hard for me to imagine the scene ever packing more of a punch than it did with Ziemba. |
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