Talley's Folly, 2013

Thursday, May 9th, 2013 09:07 am
chanaleh: (tom + erica)
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So on Tuesday night, May 7, [livejournal.com profile] justom and I went to see Talley's Folly, featuring Danny Burstein and Sarah Paulson.

As many or most of you know, I was in [livejournal.com profile] theatreatfirst's 2005 production of this play back in Boston, so it's very close to my heart.

Generally speaking, it was great. I don't know all of it by heart anymore, just certain passages, but I still have an intuitive sense of where the cues are, where our blocking went, where the moods change. And with almost every single line I could hear in my head exactly where the inflections matched and differed from what [livejournal.com profile] dpolicar and I had evolved. (Actually, it surprised me how much Danny Burstein's performance evoked [livejournal.com profile] dpolicar's for me, even though the dialect work and often the pacing were very different. Dave, it made me miss you a bunch. :-)

Not surprisingly, though, there's a certain amount of material in the text that also sounds very different to me 8 years later.

Heartbreakingly so. When it was over, I sat there in my seat wringing my hands numbly until [livejournal.com profile] justom poked me and said it was time to leave the theater.

... And so then we came home and had a breakup talk.
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