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You know, I've never actually seen a play performed in a theater, but I do enjoy reading them. I've recently discovered David Mammet's plays after seeing god knows how many of his films. He's quite the talent.
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Ooh, just saw this one a couple weeks ago at the Gamm Theater in Pawtucket. I know the guy who plays Bells -- I'm taking a clown class from him.
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And that's not just because I was in it. I loved the version with Katie Hepburn and Peter O'Toole (with Anthony Hopkins), and I love the version with Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close. It's just a dang good play.
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I don't get to see many plays, but last year I saw Kipling's "Man Who Would Be King", and it was excellent.
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Ooh, and I just thought of a couple more. See How They Run by someone I don't remember and You Can't Take it With You by the same. Those two plays had me laughing so hard that I was in pain, with tears in my eyes the whole time. Both of them are a blast!!
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If so, then probably Miss Saigon or Phantom of the Opera, though next...Tuesday, I believe, those will almost definately be beaten out by Spamalot, which I get to see then.
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I couldn't pick just one. But, if memory serves You Can't Take It With You is the oly one I ever walked out on at intermission because it was so bad.
(That is, I remember walking out of one, around the same time that I remember seeing that one, and I think that's the one I left, but it might have been some other one instead.)
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Though I should have walked out of "Waiting for Godot." I think the only reason I didn't was because I was an English major, and seeing that play is a rite of initiation for English majors.
I do wish I could have those two hours back, though.
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I'm fond of "Noises Off." Although, I can't think of a whole lot of plays that I've seen. Unless we're counting musicals.
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I heard Noises Off is awesome funny, and they even made a movie with John Ritter. I meant to put it on my must-see list.
My favorite show that I've seen is Avenue Q. I've listened to Phantom, Wicked, Into the Woods, Scarlet Pimpernel, and Jekyll and Hyde but I've never seen the actual shows, as much as I love the music. Family by Eric Samuelson that is currently being done at BYU is becoming one of my favorite straight plays.
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Favorite that I've read - "Angels in America"
Favorite that I've seen - bah! I can't remember the name of it! It's the one about Matthew Shepherd, and it involves many different roles being played by the same actors.
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Does opera count? If so then "Madame Butterfly" by Puchini (sp?). If not then 'Proof' by David Auburn. It's based on the same story as the movie "A Beautiful Mind" but differs in severa important ways that make it better IMO. A close second would be a production of Poe's "The Tell-tale Heart."
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Mike - I saw it there too! Bells was my favorite character going IN to the play -- just having read it -- and well, after his performance, he was *quadrupally* my favorite. That man is quite talented! (The guy who directed the play and played Flote is a professor of mine )
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Icky - I can't imagine a live performance doing Godot justice I've only seen the Beckett On Film version, and it was perfectly carried out!
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I had never heard of Noises Off until about 6 weeks ago. My father bought the movie and showed it to me, and in the time since, I've seen it referenced a good half dozen times. What a weird sense of synchronicity or something.
I would love to direct Noises Off, though I doubt my theatre company would want to stage anything so elaborate that was not a musical. It would lose money. :-\
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I have scripts for three of the Discworld plays. If Hatrack were less spread out geographically we could do a production!
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quote:Bells was my favorite character going IN to the play -- just having read it -- and well, after his performance, he was *quadrupally* my favorite. That man is quite talented!
He is indeed. I'll tell him he has a fan.
I've seen the guy who played Flote before, too -- he played Brick in that play by Tenessee Williams.
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Annie Get Your Gun or Seven Brides for Seven Brothers or something down-home-country like that
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Aww, musicals shouldn't count. They're a totally different category! (btw I have a very soft spot for Les Mis)
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If musicals count, we could be here a long time . . . On the assumption that they do not, I'll say Jake's Women.
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Vinegar Tom by Caryl Churchill was pretty thought-provoking. And I really like The Importance of Being Earnest too. Funny though, I've never seen either live. I tend to act in plays more than watch them I guess... And I won't get into musicals except to mention that Ragtime is easily the best one ever, since no one's brought it up yet. Has anyone else even seen it? I don't think it was ever a big hit.
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The Crucible is teh awesome. Seeing William Hutt in A Long Day's Journey into Night was pretty awesome. Seeing William Hutt in *anything* is awesome. Since nobody has mentioned any Chekhov, I'm going to have to give the nod to The Cherry Orchard. The episode of The Family Guy I watched last night was taking pot shots at Uncle Vanya so he's on my mind Posts: 3243 | Registered: Apr 2002
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You saw FASS!? Crazy! I was the choreographer last year... Hmm. Waaaaait a second. You're not in Classics, are you? Just going from the Latin name and all. 'Cause I'm in Classics, and if you're in Classics, I'm pretty sure we know each other and that would be...odd. Good! But odd...
Did you see FASS this year? Or the year before last? Or have you seen any other KWLT besides Mort?
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Angels in America kind of gets Mormonism wrong (though I think Kushner's on the right track about its spirit and that of America) and it's shrill about its politics, but I really like its grandeur and sense of cosmology.
Along the same lines, Equus.
The Glass Menagerie for its simplicity, tenderness, and fragility.
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My favorite would have to be Seascape with Sharks and Dancer by Don Nigro. I've never seen the show performed outside of the classroom, but it's an incredible play.
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Chekhov's The Seagull. I student-directed a production once. So it's kind of a matter of which one I know the best.
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The Guthrie Theater’s production of The Play’s the Thing, translated by PG Wodehouse.
Maybe. That’s the one that popped to mind first, but I don’t think there’s been a year in the last 15 that I haven’t seen at least ten plays, and the majority of them are excellent. (Most of the rest are mediocre, and, of course, a few are either laughably bad or coma-inducing boring.) Worst play ever – Home.
Idea for a script that sounds great at first but anyone with half a brain should have figured out was a bad idea long before it got to rehearsal – A one-man show based on four essays(!) of CS Lewis. I mean, I love Lewis, but his essays are some dense prose. I think at one point ElJay and I were the only two people in the auditorium that weren’t asleep, and that’s only because we were keeping awake by counting all the other people sleeping.
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