| re: for me it's Our Town | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 10:13 pm EDT 05/28/24 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 10:10 pm EDT 05/28/24 | |
| In reply to: re: for me it's Our Town - garyd 09:19 pm EDT 05/28/24 | |
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| Perhaps some could call Cromer's coup de theatre in the "Emily's One Memory" scene taking it too far into literally doing the work for the audience -- but I think it was so ingenious and so organic to what the text does that I am surprised it wasn't written into the original script to be done that way. I'm sure some very good directors and actors in the right space can make it feel this way without the switch into real period costumes from modern day, the use of real props and real bacon frying on stage, using all the sense for 1 scene only ... but boy was it effective when for real. I saw that production twice, as far as I recall (maybe 3 times but I don't think so), and I would have gone several more to see other casts (I saw it with Cromer as the Stage Manager and Michael Shannon as the Stage Manager). It's so definitive to me, after many other productions of the show, including one I was in, and several times reading it before that... that I am honestly disappointed it isn't being revive in NYC instead of the new Broadway production that's coming soon directed by Kenny Leon. Cromer's production should be mounted in NYC every 10 years at least... if not running continuously with different casts, like The Fantasticks did for 42 years and then another 11 years when it was remounted 4 years after closing originally. |
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