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| re: Was the Promenade Theater a traditional proscenium or in the round? nm | |
| Posted by: TheOtherOne 09:18 pm EDT 04/09/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Was the Promenade Theater a traditional proscenium or in the round? nm - AlanScott 06:51 pm EDT 04/09/23 | |
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| Yes, and you can add The Common Pursuit and Three Tall Women to that list. Many others as well over the years, of course. So good to see Alan Bates and Eileen Atkins there in The Unexpected Man, too. I always hate losing theaters, but as a former UWS resident this particular loss hit hard. (Not that the theatre had anything to do with this, but I didn't think the Broadway revival of The Waverly Gallery was nearly as good as the original NY production at the Promenade.) |
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| Two more productions spring to mind at the Promenade. | |
| Posted by: Charlie_Baker 09:19 am EDT 04/10/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Was the Promenade Theater a traditional proscenium or in the round? nm - TheOtherOne 09:18 pm EDT 04/09/23 | |
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| And they couldn't be more different from each other. A fine revival (Maybe a transfer?) of Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class, with Kathy Bates, Eddie Jones, and Bradley Whitford. Then there was James Naughton basically doing a very engaging cabaret act. i'm another UWS resident who misses the Promenade, still. |
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| re: Two more productions spring to mind at the Promenade. | |
| Posted by: ryhog 10:09 am EDT 04/10/23 | |
| In reply to: Two more productions spring to mind at the Promenade. - Charlie_Baker 09:19 am EDT 04/10/23 | |
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| And one more: Hurlyburly with the star-studded cast (save for Walken who was replaced by Silver) that rode the transfer to Broadway. I am pretty sure it was my first time at the Promenade. | |
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| re: Was the Promenade Theater a traditional proscenium or in the round? nm | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 10:32 pm EDT 04/09/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Was the Promenade Theater a traditional proscenium or in the round? nm - TheOtherOne 09:18 pm EDT 04/09/23 | |
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| I forgot about Three Tall Women because I saw it at the Vineyard and then, even though I liked it a lot, didn't see it again. I may be in the minority but I preferred the Broadway Waverly Gallery, which hit me very hard, but that may have had to do with being older. |
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| re: Was the Promenade Theater a traditional proscenium or in the round? nm | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 01:44 pm EDT 04/10/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Was the Promenade Theater a traditional proscenium or in the round? nm - AlanScott 10:32 pm EDT 04/09/23 | |
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| Among other things, I saw a truly terrible "comedy" at the Promenade called HIGH INFIDELITY that starred John Davidson and Morgan Fairchild. He played a philandering US Senator in the midst of a presidental run and she played his wife. The set up was that their relationship was starting to bread down and that they were attending a marriage counseling retreat on the day of the action in an effort to patch things up and save his bid for the White House. Clearly inspired by the Clintons, but the play was so awful that I found it incredible that it had gotten produced, even with the headliners involved. It was like something you'd expect to have seen touring dinner theatres in the 1970's. | |
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