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| Posted by: Stagebuff718 07:36 am EDT 05/31/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Theatre for a New Audience’s Fuente Ovejuna ... - NewtonUK 07:01 am EDT 05/31/23 | |
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| From critics I know and a friend who bought tickets, I understand that the production was plagued by COVID. First one person, then several others. Critics had their tickets pulled and pulled again because actors were out. My friend's tickets were cancelled, too. Someone told me that ultimately the show only gave 11 performances. It's a very sad story, and I, too, have been a huge fan of Jonathan Cake, whom I first saw in Baby Doll in London in the 1990s. | |
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| re: Theatre for a New Audience’s Fuente Ovejuna ... | |
| Posted by: twocents 02:13 pm EDT 05/31/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Theatre for a New Audience’s Fuente Ovejuna ... - Stagebuff718 07:36 am EDT 05/31/23 | |
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| The actors must have been furious to lose potentially career altering NY reviews. Even if only fair, as long as they got reviewed, it's all good. | |
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| re: Theatre for a New Audience’s Fuente Ovejuna ... | |
| Posted by: oddone 11:48 am EDT 05/31/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Theatre for a New Audience’s Fuente Ovejuna ... - Stagebuff718 07:36 am EDT 05/31/23 | |
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| This is correct. Press tickets kept being pulled and rescheduled because of Covid in the cast. And yes, there were 11 total performances when it was all done. In the last week they decided they weren’t going to officially open or have the show be open to review, but they did still (as a gesture of good will) let press attend the final 2-3 shows, if anyone could make it. So it’s possibly some press folks went. But even if they did, they won’t be publishing a review, because the show didn’t technically open. | |
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| re: Theatre for a New Audience’s Fuente Ovejuna ... | |
| Posted by: twocents 02:07 pm EDT 05/31/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Theatre for a New Audience’s Fuente Ovejuna ... - oddone 11:48 am EDT 05/31/23 | |
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| Aha! I'd been wondering this as well. I got to the "Final Performance." (Shout out to FP) Front row for Act II. It was kind of unsettling to invest an evening being in that area with no critical guidance. That obnoxious N.C. lady who goes to absolutely everything was there, raising hell as usual, having words with ushers and getting headphones even though she was in front row from the outset. It was a memorable show. Mezz was virtually empty. Lots of actor traffic up there, so that was convenient. Commander is written as a two dimensional pure villain. Cake really couldn't add much to that, but he was terrific and had great energy. TNA must have lost a lot on the show. | |
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