| re: Is theater worth it from the rafters? | |
| Posted by: portenopete 08:22 pm EST 02/27/24 | |
| In reply to: Is theater worth it from the rafters? - Zelgo 07:17 pm EST 02/27/24 | |
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| I was lucky to see Stritchie at The Public (the Newman, was it?) where I was sitting in the centre halfway back (next to Julianne Moore, so it must have been a good seat!). But on the other hand, I saw Barbara Cook at Avery Fisher Hall sitting in the second or third tier and was a million miles away and enjoyed her just as much. (I'll never forget the purity of her encore done without amplification: an 80-year old filling that hall with just her God-given voice was spine tingling. If I had to make a choice I'd definitely say I prefer being close. The behaviour of audiences is so odious these days that the fewer I have in my line of vision the better. The intimacy you feel sitting in the first row or two is unbeatable. I'll never forget sitting about five feet from Adrian Lester when he sang "Being Alive" at the Donmar or being the recipient of a (literally) killer glare from Mark Rylance from the front row of the Apollo Shaftesbury when he was playing Richard III. Or gazing into Jessica Tandy's impossibly blue eyes in Salonika from the front row of the Anspacher, again mere feet away. Or even closer, sitting on a cushion on the stage of the Rose Theatre in Kingston-upon-Thames as Judi Dench's massive Elizabethan hoop skirt brushed me every time her Titania turned to make love with Oliver Chris' callow Bottom. Yeah...close is better :). |
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