| re: Productions of the past I wish I'd seen | |
| Posted by: portenopete 11:09 am EDT 06/05/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Productions of the past I wish I'd seen - AlanScott 11:15 pm EDT 06/04/23 | |
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| I laughed reading this as production after production occurred to you. I'm the same way. The list feels like it might be endless. I'd like to have seen Coward, Lawrence, Olivier and Jill Esmond in the first Private Lives. And Henry Irving in anything to see what the effect would be and whether or not there was something a 21st-century viewer could grab on to in terms of character and emotional life. And the opening of Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey and the Macready/Booth Scottish Plays inn the mid-19th century to experience the riots. With all of these- and hundreds more- is the idea of having no expectations going in is just so thrilling: "This one's got Noel Coward: do we know him?" I'm grateful to have seen things like Avenue Q and Spring Awakening and The Book of Mormon with very little hint as to what they were like, Or, as a kid, seeing Noises Off on Broadway and laughing my ass off, something I'd never known a play could bring about. I'm always interested in takeovers: Thomas Mitchell or Gene Lockhart in Salesman, Quinn or Palance as Brick in Cat (and Thomas Gomez as Big Daddy), Alfred Drake in King and I. I gotta stop...LOL. |
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