| re: NEW - "FLYING OVER SUNSET" - Talkin' Broadway Review | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 10:00 am EST 12/14/21 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 09:59 am EST 12/14/21 | |
| In reply to: NEW - "FLYING OVER SUNSET" - Talkin' Broadway Review - T.B._Admin. 10:02 pm EST 12/13/21 | |
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| Elsewhere, the Tuesday morning quarterbacks are all saying it needed an out of town gig. But though that would've tightened and polished the text and staging, it wouldn't have addressed the central issue, which is at the conceptual level: the meeting of the three isn't inherently high stakes, and the shared revelations aren't fresh. (Lots of posts go into this, mine twice). The show had at least two high profile workshops, one with Ebersole one with Mazie, Boyd Gaines attached back then as Huxley. And many readings. So it's not as if Lapine and company didn't open up the process for feedback. But the fixes needed should've been made early: the score, lovely as it is, doesn't always know what should be sung. Certainly the Claire Booth Luce act 2 material, among the most redundant, should've been fixed quite early. (Why doesn't she interact with the two attractive guys? Her husband is emotionally unavailable; instead, she revisits the mother/daughter deaths with the guys off stage; huge focus mistake.) These are substantive content issues to be questioned and corrected in the preliminary writing phase. The show didn't need "Comedy Tonight" or "Before the Parade Passes by" added; it needed to dramatize shared trips with powerful shared participation among the three disparate players. That was foundational, baked into the DNA of the piece. |
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