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| re: Merrily We Roll Along November 23 NYTW | |
| Posted by: portenopete 11:54 pm EST 11/25/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Merrily We Roll Along November 23 NYTW - Chazwaza 11:18 pm EST 11/25/22 | |
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| I KNEW as I was writing it that I had her name wrong but it was apparently too much trouble to Google. It was actually Jenna Russell that bugged me but I certainly find Mary a lot at the beginning of the play. Wish I'd seen her in SITPWG. I saw Anna-Jane Casey as Dot, who I think only did the Menier run. |
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| re: Merrily We Roll Along November 23 NYTW | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 04:25 am EST 11/26/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Merrily We Roll Along November 23 NYTW - portenopete 11:54 pm EST 11/25/22 | |
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| Mary is made much more grating in that scene in the revision than she was originally. | |
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| re: Merrily We Roll Along November 23 NYTW | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 03:55 am EST 11/26/22 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 03:54 am EST 11/26/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Merrily We Roll Along November 23 NYTW - portenopete 11:54 pm EST 11/25/22 | |
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| I had a feeling you were. ;) As originally written, and as playing by Ann Morrison, she wasn't at all that kind of grating or broad, and not even what I'd call "a lot"... in fact not only did I like Mary in the scene, but I related to her and found her an acerbic, funny, maybe bitchy in a way but right, voice of reason in the scene... which grounded the "buying your own hype" feel of the others in the original scene/song. She was bitter and over-it, but not in a grating way, not in a way that made us hate the only reasonable person with perspective in the beginning of the show. |
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| re: Merrily We Roll Along November 23 NYTW | |
| Posted by: toros 08:58 am EST 11/26/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Merrily We Roll Along November 23 NYTW - Chazwaza 03:54 am EST 11/26/22 | |
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| Agreed. Mary was bitter and frustrated in the original production, but like you, I felt for her. Now, apparently, the point is that Frank has completely destroyed Mary's life, and she is a horror-show. And Gussie is also behaving in a way that goes beyond jealousy into something almost psychopathic. Almost the entire scene at NYTW is heightened melodrama, and it takes the production a few scenes to fully recover from it. But it does. | |
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