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本帖最后由 deplorethesun 于 2018-3-17 17:11 编辑
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain!
After a lackluster, topsy-turvy, utterly disappointing start of this season's classic American musical repertoire revivals that is unfortunately our beloved Carousel, now in previews and almost slated to be at least a critical flop, Lincoln Center Theater's production of My Fair Lady, directed by renowned theater veteran Bartlett Sher, is a breath of fresh air to all musical fans out there who not only want to hear the lush and glorious score*s played out by a full-size orchestra and sung by marvously talented performers but also hope to leave the theater understanding a little more about the human condition.
Harry Hadden-Paton, former Downton Abbey star and also the voice of the male inquisitor in Dragon Age Inquisition and its subsequent DLCs, begins his performance as the male lead Professor Henry Higgins, a linguistics professor determined to transform the flower selling Cockney girl Eliza Doolittle into his idea of a “proper lady.” My Fair Lady is the musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, named after a Greek mythological figure that he intended to challenge and subvert in the context of the class, gender, middle class morality, and social morality in general in the 19th Century London.
"Superb as Higgins!" "Sensational!" "Appropriately stiff yet endearing." Reviews of Harry Hadden-Paton's Higgins from the preview attendees on the forum of Broadwayworld.com have been favorable. "All I can say is that I sat on the edge of my bed when I got home and shed a few tears in shear gratitude for being able to witness what I did tonight." It is truly something exquisite and heartwarming that Barlett has reshaped this wondrous piece of musical theater into.
"It’s a poignant, thoughtful evening of theatre that doesn’t skimp on the heart or the humor," another report adds. "Act one is breathless, swept up in excitement and romance. The Ascot scene is a wonder of comic timing all around. Act two brings it all back to Earth. And it’s all grounded in the humanity of Lauren Ambrose and Harry Hadden-Paton’s performances."
It's no wonder that Shaw's text is nothing as fluffy as Guys and Dolls nor funny yet simplistic as Hello Dolly!. The class tension and burgeoning of identity politics are elegantly and rawly woven into his retelling of Pygmalion. Although the movie and subsequent musical adaptations defied Shaw's intention to show Eliza as an independent, free soul by leaving it ambiguous where Eliza and Higgins's relationship ends up, Sher managed to honor Shaw's intention of his play while not touching one note or word of My Fair Lady. Comparing it with the visionless revival of Carousel playing at Imperial, a director can make or break a piece even when you have talents like Jessie Mueller and Joshua Henry.
辛辛苦苦写的再来一发
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发表于 2018-3-17 14:57 · 黑龙江
