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re: "The Seagull" (2001) - Any experiences waiting for tickets?
Posted by: lordofspeech 09:56 pm EDT 08/20/21
In reply to: "The Seagull" (2001) - Any experiences waiting for tickets? - YessicaHaircut 04:30 pm EDT 08/20/21

I went twice. Opening night And closing night. Bith times, I breezed into the cancellations line and got tickets easy. What do I remember? Streep had mastered the final act by the final performance. She had Arkadina’s showy narcissistic center from the git-go, but she found something deeply beautiful at the play’s end. Streep and Hoffman looked like they could have been family: both white-pink faces with hypersensitive emotions. John Goodman’s work nearly stole the show both times. Walken and Streep seemed to truly love each other as their brother and sister characters. Nathalie Portman’s shallow voice hurt the overall production. It was great to see it all.
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re: "The Seagull" (2001) - Any experiences waiting for tickets?
Posted by: NightMusic77 10:57 am EDT 08/21/21
In reply to: re: "The Seagull" (2001) - Any experiences waiting for tickets? - lordofspeech 09:56 pm EDT 08/20/21

A small group of friends of mine had decided to wait for tkts outside The Public and I went down there to meet them when I got off of work just to say hello. I had no intentions of sleeping out on the sidewalk overnight to get tkts yet there I was in my work clothes sitting on the sidewalk until the next morning. As for the production itself, I absolutely loved it. Talk about event theatre! That production and experience hold such a special place in my heart--a few weeks later everything was changed by 9/11. That production of The Seagull exists as a bookmark in my memory as the last "before"; it was just one of those magical NYC days/nights.
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