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| It’s good writing to have characters relatable to audience | |
| Posted by: dramedy 02:49 pm EDT 10/01/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Diana: The Musical review – a right royal debacle so bad you’ll hyperventilate - sf 02:44 pm EDT 10/01/21 | |
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| Who were also wondering if they should throw up now or wait until intermission. | |
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| re: It’s good writing to have characters relatable to audience | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 11:44 pm EDT 10/01/21 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 11:41 pm EDT 10/01/21 | |
| In reply to: It’s good writing to have characters relatable to audience - dramedy 02:49 pm EDT 10/01/21 | |
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| I made it through act one tonight. I can’t believe some of the comments below. Kaye and Erin Davie are doing some heavy lifting here. It’s just relentless in its desire to join the sung-through catalogue, the pervasive mostly tuneless recitative banal and literal. I can’t imagine a workshop inspiring this investment. | |
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| In further praise of Erin Davie | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 07:46 am EDT 10/02/21 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 07:42 am EDT 10/02/21 | |
| In reply to: re: It’s good writing to have characters relatable to audience - Delvino 11:41 pm EDT 10/01/21 | |
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| Davie was wonderful in Grey Gardens, and a vulnerable, heartbreaking Violet in the Side Show revisal. With Diana, it's clear she's one of Broadway's most valuable players. Watch how she miraculously makes Parker-Bowles a dimensional human being, every moment of stage time filled, creating a layered woman with ambiguous feelings about her role in this doomed marriage -- that foregone conclusion leeching the drama out of attempts at emotional suspense; yet Davie offers a point of view that raises new questions. About 2/3 through act one, she seemed capable of turning the show into a musical called Camilla, a la Wicked refocusing on others in Oz. That's not glib; Davie damn near commandeers the narrative. I'll be curious to see what she does with the second act, which many claim is far better. It's a terrific opportunity to focus on this gifted singing actor. I hope this performance leads to another project. I can see Davie as a Fosca someday, to think of but one role. | |
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