| re: Productions of the past I wish I'd seen |
| Last Edit: Delvino 11:29 am EDT 06/05/23 |
| Posted by: Delvino 11:23 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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| Over the years I've confessed that the performance I'd most like to have seen was the original Skin of Our Teeth. I've always imagined that Bankhead -- so temperamentally and self-presentationally at odds with anyone's idea of a domestic employee -- sashaying out with a feather duster had to be one of the great launches for a comic play in Broadway history. Everyhing that followed must've been built on relishing the incongruity. I've never seen another Sabina that captured that element of genuine surprise, and I've seen some almost-successful ones (not a devoted fan of the Vivien Leigh's, which at least had the oddity of the casting working in her favor). Yes, I'm sure her Regina was for the ages. But we can likely imagine that performance. The synergy of Tallulah and Wilder's unlikely and unreliable narrator had to be a kind of artistic one-off. |
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