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a little advance planning never hurt
So I'm looking at this year's Stratford season. Which is this:
So that's YES on Henry V; Much Ado about Nothing; Elektra; and The War of 1812; MAYBE/MAYBE NOT on The Matchmaker; The Pirates of Penzance; You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; and Cymbeline; NO on 42nd Street; Wanderlust; and The Best Brothers; and HELL NO on A Word or Two and MacHomer.
Per usual, the numbers involved mean most if not all of the Maybes are going to end up in the No column. That's okay. If I couldn't handle not seeing them I'd have put them in the Yes column to start.
Further musings as spring progresses, I imagine.
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42nd Street - with Cynthia Dale, which I was going to say jfc enough already, but she's the aging star and not the ingenue, so there's that
Henry V - how could I not?
The Matchmaker - i.e., the play that became Hello, Dolly!. With Tom McCamus as Horace Vandergelder and Seana McKenna as Dolly Levi, I might be willing to overlook Geraint Wyn Davies as Malachi Stack. It is for considering.
Much Ado About Nothing - with the marvelous Ben Carlson as Benedick, hell yes. It's going to look better than it needs to (see previous rambles about budgets taking over, especially on the main stage), but it ought to be fantastic.
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A Word or Two - Christopher Plummer in a one-man have-a-chat show, god, spare me
The Pirates of Penzance - maaaybe. I've grown wary about these guys and Gilbert & Sullivan.
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - could be tremendous fun, if it can be fit in.
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Cymbeline - I've never seen it, but this has Geraint Wyn Davies as Cymbeline and I just don't know if I can stand it. (I'll have to give a read and see what that's likely to do. I didn't mind him as Julius Caesar, because he was in the thing for all of two minutes. But when he's really the lead he just mugs the living hell out of everybody else and it's much less a play with him in it than him in a play, if you see what I mean. What I'm saying is, season 2 of Slings & Arrows? Bang on.)
Elektra - a hell of a cast. These guys usually do a decent Greek tragedy and this will, I expect, be no exception.
Wanderlust - appears to be a little musical? About which I know nothing.
black box
The Best Brothers - and that's apparently stressed on the second word, i.e. the family name is Best, see what they did there? and see how my master's thesis will always be relevant? :-D Anyway, the writer is also starring, and that makes me profoundly wary.
Hirsch - a new play about a Holocaust refugee in Canada. Probably I'll give it a miss.
MacHomer - "It’s Macbeth as enacted by more than fifty characters from the animated hit series The Simpsons" - at $80 a pop? I think not.
wait, there's another one? Studio Theatre Annex? smaller even than the black box?
The War of 1812 - not gonna lie, the idea of a Canadian play about the War of 1812 is tremendously interesting to me.
So that's YES on Henry V; Much Ado about Nothing; Elektra; and The War of 1812; MAYBE/MAYBE NOT on The Matchmaker; The Pirates of Penzance; You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; and Cymbeline; NO on 42nd Street; Wanderlust; and The Best Brothers; and HELL NO on A Word or Two and MacHomer.
Per usual, the numbers involved mean most if not all of the Maybes are going to end up in the No column. That's okay. If I couldn't handle not seeing them I'd have put them in the Yes column to start.
Further musings as spring progresses, I imagine.
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