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| re: Women in the verge…. Closed a few weeks early | |
| Posted by: mikem 11:08 pm EST 01/05/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Women in the verge…. Closed a few weeks early - BroadwayTonyJ 11:09 am EST 01/05/22 | |
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| I saw Women on the Verge at an early preview, and again at its final performance. There were significant changes (if I remember correctly, I think that the song order was quite different, and a different song ended Act I and began Act II at the different performances). If the show had had an out-of-town tryout, I think it would have helped tremendously. The show was also hampered by Sherie Rene Scott's performance as the lead, which was very low energy (which I think was a directorial decision). I haven't seen Flying Over Sunset, but it sounds like an out-of-town tryout wouldn't have mattered that much. |
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| re: Women in the verge…. Closed a few weeks early | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 11:16 pm EST 01/05/22 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 11:13 pm EST 01/05/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Women in the verge…. Closed a few weeks early - mikem 11:08 pm EST 01/05/22 | |
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| It had multiple readings and at least two workshops, one with Christine Ebersole and another with the late Marin Mazzie, Boyd Gaines attached a long while in the Huxley role, Tam Mutu as Grant in one iteration. Safe to say it had lots of development. | |
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| re: Women in the verge…. Closed a few weeks early | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 11:57 pm EST 01/05/22 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 11:39 pm EST 01/05/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Women in the verge…. Closed a few weeks early - Delvino 11:13 pm EST 01/05/22 | |
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| I have no idea if the show would have changed much if it had gone out of town first... but it's very worth acknowledging that an out of town try-out production and a development period with some readings are very very different things and give the writers different things. This LCT production is the first proper staging of the show and the first time its in front of a proper audience, right? That's extremely different than readings, and it's possible an OOT tryout would have taught them a lot about their show and given them the chance to see it and change it into something that reached the audience better and achieved their goals better. Who knows. But to discuss it as if the show having done several developmental readings over a few years proves that nothing much would have changed had the show started OOT is not fair. |
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| re: Women in the verge…. Closed a few weeks early | |
| Posted by: ashleylm 01:43 pm EST 01/06/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Women in the verge…. Closed a few weeks early - Chazwaza 11:39 pm EST 01/05/22 | |
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| I saw it at LCT, and loved the score (well, 80% of it). Loved it. One of my favourite all-time scores. But the show between the songs was dramatically inert, despite taxicabs and beds on fire and multiple poisonings. I personally don't think it would have taken much to fix, so an out-of-town tryout might have been just the thing. Or they might have made it worse, like how (supposedly) Lestat eroded between San Francisco and NYC. |
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| re: Women in the verge…. Closed a few weeks early | |
| Last Edit: Ann 01:57 pm EST 01/06/22 | |
| Posted by: Ann 01:56 pm EST 01/06/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Women in the verge…. Closed a few weeks early - ashleylm 01:43 pm EST 01/06/22 | |
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| I saw an early preview (though there had already been plenty of hair-on-fire criticism) and thought it was wildly entertaining. One of my top ten "so happy I got to see this" productions. And that score! One of my favorite Yazbek scores, though I pretty much love them all. I do think a tryout or two would have helped greatly, and, though I thought the cast did a fine job (I didn't think of Scott as being low-energy at all), it could have been phenomenal with casting that reflected the Spanish setting, as the film of course did. It felt wrong even then, and a decade+ later, things would be very different (think of a crossover for Banderas). |
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