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| re: Original 1983 Broadway Production of NOISES OFF remembrances | |
| Posted by: lonlad 05:19 am EDT 04/11/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Original 1983 Broadway Production of NOISES OFF remembrances - Pokernight 08:17 pm EDT 04/10/21 | |
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| The original Bway NOISES OFF is, I think, the last production for which I bought standing room. It was a sold out Saturday night the evening before the Tonys and the cast was on fire -- I still remember Dorothy Loudon's panic curdling unforgettably into rage and Brian Murray's brilliant disdain and everything about Deborah Rush, who was sensational (as was Katie Finneran in that same role in the first Bway revival, in which LuPone was quite trashy-funny at the matinee I saw). The second NY revival was indeed excellent, especially Martin and Campbell Scott and Megan Hilty, who was as game as can be, bless her, as Brooke. I've seen the play more times than I can remember in London and it always delivers! Oddly, I've been told it isn't all that much fun to be in since so much of it is about executing choreography seamlessly and on point at the expense of character investigation, but when that is done to a high level (Jamie Glover in the Old Vic revival that also starred Janie Dee) the result really is comedy heaven. A lot of shows get compared to NOISES OFF (like THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG), none of which come close. | |
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| re: Original 1983 Broadway Production of NOISES OFF remembrances | |
| Posted by: portenopete 05:55 am EDT 04/11/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Original 1983 Broadway Production of NOISES OFF remembrances - lonlad 05:19 am EDT 04/11/21 | |
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| I doubt I'll ever react with such out-of-control glee as I did at 16 when I saw the original Broadway cast. But I have enjoyed subsequent productions, especially the Old Vic's and I'm. glad you mention Jamie Glover, who was terrific and whom I thought would be a bigger name. (He was also the best Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband I have ever seen at Chichester- featuring the original original Dotty Otley, Patricia Routledge- and found the very tricky balance between outrageous and witty dandy and implausibly heterosexual womaniser, It's the first production where I didn't feel awful for poor Mabel Chiltern and what their married life would be like.) Another Noises Off I remember was when where the real-life parallels threatened to overwhelm Frayn's play: the Lloyd was a former theatre school head who had begun a relationship with a student, who was playing Brooke; the actual director was his successor who had begun a relationship with another student who was the actress playing Poppy. (Both were relationships which lasted years and years but which even then seemed a bit...off.) I'm sure it wasn't the only Noises Off to have real-life parallels! |
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