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| Posted by: mikem 10:51 am EST 01/24/25 | |
| In reply to: Shameless self-promotion: if you've ever enjoyed reading my posts... - DanielVincent 10:12 pm EST 01/23/25 | |
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| I really enjoyed reading your post on Gypsy! Thank you for bringing up your excitement for seeing Linda Lavin when you were eight because it was the first time you were ever in the same room as a celebrity. Nowadays, with Instagram and Twitter/X/etc, celebrities seem so much accessible than before, and the mystique isn't there as it used to be (whether it's good or bad to know so much about celebrities' personal lives and thoughts is a separate question). For me, after seeing so many Broadway shows with celebrities over the years, I've personally become quite jaded about being in their presence. Which again is not necessarily a bad thing, but your post brought me back to the days when it was really exciting to see someone I'd seen before on TV or in the movies, but this time it was in the flesh! In person! That person was actually here, for real! Your post reminded me of that excitement, so thank you for that. When I was in college, someone else in my dorm had met Donny Osmond of all people for some reason over the summer and had taken a picture with him. Mind you, this was decades after the Osmonds had their heyday, and he certainly was not in fashion, so to speak, in any way whatsoever. But we were all still, "Wow, you are so lucky you got to meet him. AND take a picture with him!" My dorm mate put the photo on his dorm room wall. My dorm mate was kind of a lovable goof, and we teased him that Donny Osmond was kind of dorky, but we also shared his excitement. Nowadays, I'm not sure if that would be the reaction of college students in a similar situation. And it certainly wouldn't be mine, from where I stand today. But that youthful excitement is a nice feeling, and I'll try to keep in the forefront of my mind how lucky I am to be in a situation where I can be with incredibly gifted people: not celebrities per se, but the best stage actors in the world doing what they do best, in the same room that I am in. I've become very blase about that, but I probably shouldn't be. I'm not sure who the first celebrity I had ever seen on stage would be. Does anyone want to share their memories? I'm pretty sure the first celebrity I ever spoke to was David Henry Hwang, because he came and spoke at my college and then met with a small group of students afterwards, and I was one of them. But I only vaguely knew who he was at the time, so I wasn't starstruck or frankly that excited. I would be much more excited to talk to him now. Going back to your post, I think that Danny Burstein is one of those actors who makes what he does look easy, and he, like I said in a previous post about Sutton Foster, is very human-sized rather than outsized, and very relatable. So I think he's much more than a journeyman actor. But I also agree with you that he's doing exactly what I thought he would be doing in this role, and he really fades into the background. I don't know if this is a deliberate choice by George C Wolfe, Burstein, and McDonald, but it doesn't seem that surprising that his Herbie and her Rose don't last forever, because there is no way he could keep up with her in the long run. So I think some of the pathos surrounding his leaving isn't there as it has been in other productions. The impact of his leaving revolves around how it affects Rose, not how it affects Herbie. I also really appreciated your detailed description of your seat, pricing, etc. It's really helpful to know that about specific seats. Oh, and one small typo I noticed: the actor who plays Tulsa is Kevin Csolak. |
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