Saoirse Goes Broadway
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Steve7216 — 10 years ago(September 14, 2015 02:42 PM)
Thoughtful post DC. I'm pretty much unfamiliar with stage productions. Perhaps she needs to scratch an itch, or maybe she believes the experience will result in the betterment of her craft. Given the playwright and other experienced actors, don't you think her casting says a lot about how she is perceived by those who put this whole thing together?
BTW, what's your thinking/expectations about Brooklyn? Do you feel she had a legitimate chance to land an Oscar nod? -
jlent — 10 years ago(September 14, 2015 03:43 PM)
No one takes Broadway seriously for new plays. It's musicals and standards for the tourist crowd. I'm pleased Saoirse has enough clout to get as her first stage performance one of those tourist attractions. (Though The Book of Mormon is KILLER.)
Real work, in new plays, is being done off-Broadway and off-off Broadway, but that kind of theater is dying off for large audiences, the way classical music is. Look at movies from the 30's, 40's and 50's. So many of them were ABOUT Broadway. I'm thinking of All About Eve. But I'm also thinking of last year's Birdman.
The former was an ode to Broadway, the latter more of a requiem.
Writers would rather do screenplays now. -
peterquennell — 10 years ago(February 02, 2016 05:41 AM)
No one takes Broadway seriously for new plays. It's musicals and standards for the tourist crowd. I'm pleased Saoirse has enough clout to get as her first stage performance one of those tourist attractions. (Though The Book of Mormon is KILLER.)
Real work, in new plays, is being done off-Broadway and off-off Broadway, but that kind of theater is dying off for large audiences, the way classical music is.
Hmmmm. We average Broadway and ballet once a week and I'd say at least a 1/4 of what we see is new. What really happened is that demand expanded to average over 50,000 seats a night and so most of the big shows could cover their initial costs. -
zorrodvd — 10 years ago(September 17, 2015 08:34 AM)
Interesting and unusual link to official ticket site.
http://t.co/KPDQruCvcK -
narkelbiazzi — 10 years ago(September 17, 2015 09:57 PM)
A Saoirse fan page got some great pictures from this animation:
http://tinyurl.com/p5dtcba
This one in particular, looks amazing with the Saoirse ghost face
http://tinyurl.com/p4b2lnj -
jlent — 10 years ago(September 22, 2015 08:23 PM)
The general rule of thumb is the closer the seat is to the front the more you have to look up to see the action because the stage is above you.
Front row111c is also definitely not the best for sprawling musicals where you are likely to miss some of the action across all of the stage.
But the Walter Kerr is an intimate theater.
Here's a photo of it to give you at least a bit of an idea. As you can see, the stage is not that high.
http://tinyurl.com/o6qpofh
I have second-row seats, which still ain't cheap. I'm very happy.