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Which famous family may be first in line to attend the Met’s Hansel and Gretel next week?
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Hope it’s not our nation’s FIRST family. They’ll hate the production!
First of all, who knows whether they’d like it or not.
That been said, I didn’t think the production was a disgrace, just not that interesting. I saw it when it came to Chicago on its initial run in the USA and I thought it was OK.
The idea behind the production is quite interesting, the execution not that much. I thought act 1 and 3 were cool, act 2 bored me to death.
I wish the Hansel and gretel set in Central Park was taped. That premise sounds so interesting to me.
That Central Park HANSEL was the second Opera I ever saw. I barely remember it, but hey, I was ten. I remember that while most of the opera was sung in English, the Parents, portrayed as Immigrants, sang in German when alone together in Act one. It worked, I recall, very well.
The little girls will probably love the
production — and they all will love the
music!
operamano50
They may not dislike it necessarily but I do not think that this is the best choice for their ages!
It could scar them.
“first in line” –
the bidens??
Huh — so last night’s security goons were only advance scouts?
does Biden have grandkids of the “right” age for this production?
i WILL PUT TERIYAKI SAUCE AND EAT THEM
quick, call child protective services
Wenarto is at his exercise!!
That is the most terrifying Wenarto video ever
I dunno. I thought it was kinda sweet compared to what the First Kids will have to endure if they attend the Met’s H&G.
For a moment, not reading or realizing what it represented, I thought Wenarto was practicing Salome again . This time with kids watching, under some cheap back-drop and Judean plastic palm trees . Up on some dais at a shopping plaza, keeping someone’s kids amused. If Gelb won’t hire…..
Finally a Hänsel and Gretel I’d like to see. Even if I didn’t understand a single word. Or maybe just because of that.
Very entertaining…enjoyed the lambert style manicure and the despina-as-a-lawyer outfit.
La Cieca should make it clear that “Nothing to see here” merely means that the posting that follows is a blind item.
The Patersons? (”nothing to see”) I don’t get the “first in line” bit, though.
famous family? how vague.
Whatever family it is (I don’t have a clue) will they enjoy the Hitler-mustache reference, or have they taken that out? I totally did not get that Hansel is Hitler is a Hero thing. Blech!
Wait…I have a clue…”first” and surely you don’t mean black – “nothing to see here?”
you can’t be serious
I guess not
ooh! ooh! ooh! (hand raised)
How about an African-American REGIE “Hansel and Gretel” reset in Post-Hurricane Katrina Louisiana?
The family could be living in a FEMA trailer. When the kids get lost in the bayou, the pantomime angels could be spirits of African slaves watching over Hansel and Gretel (and keeping the alligators from eating them).
Then the Witch could be a practitioner of Voodoo (the easy answer).
Or to go in a more politically motivated direction, fashion the Witch as an Antebellum matron living in a Plantation manor. When she starts casting her spell, the Witch then reveals herself to be a certain high-profile right-wing Republican (I’ll let you come up with names), possibly in KKK robes.
Do we go for dead men, bypassing the risk of offending the living? If so, Strom Thurmond and George Wallace are obvious choices. But if we did Thurmond, the implication would obviously be that Hansel und Gretel are his love children.
I, however, would like to take a stab at someone more…alive? Because invective against the political right is what I live for. So, with that in mind, the obvious choices are:
Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, and the US of A’s very own Queen of the Night who just won’t STFU, Dick “Buckshot” Cheney.
Oh, how I hate them all.
The most unsettling video of Hansel & Gretel I have ever seen: was an E.N.O version, years ago. Where it hints/ suggest their Mother is not only the Witch in disguise, but a somewhat unhinged psycho who likes playing with knives. Also there was the scene as the night descends set around a village common, where over in a park, strange men lurk, unnoticed by the other people But the ‘heart stopper’ was the return of the other ‘freed’ children…as walking dead ‘zombies’. Most likely, this was hinting at those famous gut wrenching child murders on the Yorkshire Moors. This production was not for kiddies’.
This sounds mild next to the 2005 Erfurt production. Actually Erfurt did two productions, which ran on alternating nights. The first was a traditional show with gingerbread and a happy ending. The second was labeled “For Adults Only” – on one under age 16 was admitted.
The Act One set was a huge city dump – Hansel (a tall, thin male countertenor) and Gretel played amongst the trash, trying to find toys and clothes. They lived in a shack next to the dump – Mother turned tricks for her supply of heroin, while Father was so drunk he didn’t notice what was going on around him.
In Act 2, the kids were drugged with doctored sweets, and were taken into the house of the Hexe. Inside a room smeared with blood, they were suspended from the ceiling by leather restraints while the Hexe changed out of “his” business suit into a leather teddy, complete with stiletto heels and an erect leather phallus. Just as the Hexe was about to do his “thing”, Hansel slipped his bonds and restrained the Hexe long enough for Gretel to grab the butcher knife and send the Hexe away.