I have tickets for next week Friday but I heard it is only 70 minutes so would love to hear whether it is worth the trip. Has anyone seen it? Btw, Living on Love was spectacular in my opinion! :)
I know it's been going on for a while, but it still takes me a second to realize which theatre company people are referring to when they use that initialism.
Is there a Boston Theatre Works or an Oregon Musical Guild?
As far-fetched as it is, I would give anything for the production to transfer to New York. Would love to see Nina Arianda in this. Also reviewers are really loving it!
Show was excellent, but is quite short. 70-75 minutes at most. Maybe they could pair it with a Mamet show?
3 of the 4 leads were outstanding (all but the guy who played Martin, but it might be the role, not the actor). Incredible sound and lighting effects considering the show is in such a small theater and for such a short length of time. Arianda and Rockwell were terrific, you could not tell they were kind of last minute choices.
I'd love to see Rockwell as the title character in Tracy Letts' "Killer Joe"
Show was excellent, but is quite short. 70-75 minutes at most. Maybe they could pair it with a Mamet show?
The original production didn't need to be paired with anything to run for over 1000 performances.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
"The original production didn't need to be paired with anything to run for over 1000 performances."
Doesn't change the fact that it's a very short show and if someone is charging full B'way prices for a 70 minute show you're going to have angry people.
I'm a huge Nina Arianda fan. If you enjoy her work, this will not disappoint. She and Sam Rockwell make a dynamic couple on stage. Even though they're not Lauren Ambrose and Chris Pine in terms of star level, the performance they put on is top notch. It's an extremely put together performance with lighting, sound, and set decoration quality being very high.
The downside is the length. It's short. I actually wanted it to be longer. It would be fabulous to see this have a full scale run in New York, but I just don't know if audiences would pay top dollar for 70 minutes. However, they really succeed with this production. If you can catch it, don't miss it.
It would be quite the coup for the WTF if they were also to get the Visit and Living on Love to Broadway along with Fool for Love. Added to that, the tremendous success of The Elephant Man, WTF really is a producing powerhouse!
"The original production didn't need to be paired with anything to run for over 1000 performances."
Doesn't change the fact that it's a very short show and if someone is charging full B'way prices for a 70 minute show you're going to have angry people.
Since the play IS coming to Broadway, can we once and for all put to bed this ridiculous notion that a play's "value" is somehow tied to its length?
Oh, this is marvelous news. Although he works very steadily, I've never understood why Sam Rockwell isn't a bigger star. A truly magnificent actor. I wonder why they've changed directors. David Hyde Pierce doesn't strike me as a natural for this material, but maybe I'm having trouble separating the man from his persona.
David Hyde Pierce is not directing FOOL FOR LOVE, but rather RIPCORD, the new David Lindsay-Abaire play. Daniel Aukin will continue his work with the Broadway transfer.