| re: A Little Night Music -Ogunquit | |
| Last Edit: portenopete 06:22 pm EDT 08/15/24 | |
| Posted by: portenopete 06:21 pm EDT 08/15/24 | |
| In reply to: re: A Little Night Music -Ogunquit - tenor1350 02:48 pm EDT 08/15/24 | |
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| I don't want to presume what crewbway is thinking but for me I tend to think of all the characters- and Madame Armfeldt especially- as being Mitteleuropean. (I know Sweden isn't Middle Europe but I don't know the adjective for "vaguely Scandanavian".) Most of the Madame Armfeldts I've seen have been European or European-adjacent- Angela Lansbury, Leslie Caron, Sîan Phillips, Regina Resnik- and of course the original was just drippingly English. Of course more obviously American actresses have played the role successfully. I was a child when Margaret Hamilton toured it in the 1970's but Elaine Stritch was a revelation: not a Madame Armfeldt I'd imagined but wholly herself and very affecting. (I saw her on a good day when there were no bumps.) The excerpts I've seen of Turner sound very modern and American and didn't exactly thrill me. But if I could I'd give it a go. I've always hoped Judi Dench might surprise us and give her Madame Armfeldt, maybe at a venue like the Donmar. Alongside someone like Anna Chancellor or Nancy Carroll. There's not a ton of script and her vision problems might not be an impediment. I'm very grateful to have seen her Desirée 25 years ago and her many subsequent "Send in the Clowns". |
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