A faint impression of the genuine article
Can we start by not using Barbra Streisand as a polestar here?
Hello, Dolly!
7 pieces since 2018.
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pieces
9
years
Trouble in River City
Jerry Zaks’ high-gloss production, which trades heavily on a bland Americana at odds with the sharp satire of Meredith Willson’s libretto and timeless score, operates on all cylinders but fires on hardly any.
Her kind of woman
Plucked from obscurity by Howard Hughes and sold to the public as a buxom, brunette heir apparent to his former protégé, Jean Harlow, Jane Russell became a household name before she ever shot a single reel of film.
Sisters were doing it for themselves
What we see here from Strasberg is frustratingly literal and drably conventional—it looks to me like he’s channeling a lot of received wisdom about how Chekhov should be staged and bringing almost nothing of his own to the process.
Look what happened to “Mabel”
Time heals almost everything, as Jerry Herman’s best score is stylishly resurrected.
After the parade
Dolly definitely did not have me at Hello!
Hello again, Gorgeous!
It’s high time we see Funny Girl through a different lens.
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).
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