{"id":11257,"date":"2020-01-02T15:38:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T15:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laughfrodisiac.com\/?p=11257"},"modified":"2020-01-02T23:05:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T23:05:04","slug":"moby-dick-at-the-a-r-t-an-epic-that-no-one-but-dave-malloy-could-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laughfrodisiac.com\/2020\/01\/02\/moby-dick-at-the-a-r-t-an-epic-that-no-one-but-dave-malloy-could-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Moby Dick at the A.R.T: An Epic that No One but Dave Malloy Could Attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s the first Theatre\nThursday of the year! What better show to celebrate with than this monster\nopus, playing at <\/em>Boston<\/em>\u2019s American Repertory Theatre until January\n12<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The long-anticipated musical version of the classic book\nMoby Dick is exactly what we expected from Dave Malloy, one of our favorite\nmodern composers: it\u2019s riveting, interesting, unique, too long, needs to be\nedited, and contains real brilliance. Telling the well-known tale of the\nfor-sure nuts captain obsessed with the white whale and hell bent on killing it\neven if he takes his whole crew down with him, Moby Dick <\/em>contains, as Ron Swanson said, \u201cno frou frou symbolism;\njust a good honest tale about a man who hates an animal.\u201d Just kidding, it\u2019s\nall symbolism baby, some of the most well recognized symbolism in all of\nAmerican literature, and Malloy and director Rachel Chavkin have presented a\nwild and weird, completely unexpected telling of the story. While the second act\nneeds work (and I don\u2019t expect Broadway audiences to happily sit through a\ntwo-hour long first act (yes we will talk at length about the peeing situation\nlater)), the first was absolutely giddily brilliant, and the show as a whole\nis, like its titular whale, a special beast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yes, I did say the first act is two hours long. The show\nas a whole is 3 hours 25 minutes, which is Long but feels Right for such an\nepic tale. That first act is one of my favorite things I\u2019ve seen at least this\nyear. It feels magical, like a privilege to be there. By having the actor\nplaying Ishmael, Manik Choksi (\u201cDolokov was in the Caucasus and he killed the\nshah\u2019s brotherrrr\u201d), talk to us as himself first, commenting on how he feels\ntoday in America as a person of color and wanting to see a stage filled with\nwho he considers his America, it did two things: a) it confirmed that Chavkin\nproductions are the most consciously diverse in the entire world, and b) it\nsealed this experience as one we were all in together, as did further breaking\nof the 4th<\/sup> wall in other instances, and the fact that the house\nlights were up for so much of it. This show is an adventure that the team makes\nsure the audience feels an important part of, making the whole thing extra\nmeaningful. (Although Choksi\u2019s little introduction to us feels out of order,\nsince Dawn L. Troupe has already sung a prologue in character<\/em> by that point.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the book, this musical is an epic journey, although\nthere are no exceedingly boring bits. Even things that should be cut are still\ninteresting, and the show as a whole is special. But the magic is in that first\nhalf. Malloy throws everything into the pot and stirs it with some incredible\nmusic, new but still sounding like him, along with straight vaudeville scenes, as\nwell as stand-up comedy. There\u2019s everything going on, and somehow it all feels\nlike part of the same whole. The scientific lessons about whales are done with\na humorous touch, meta-critiquing how boring it is in the book. I could have\ndone without the \u201cThe Whale as a Dish\u201d song, a \u2018funny\u2019 cooking show sort-of\ntake about eating whale meat which is so unnecessary that cutting it wouldn\u2019t\nchange anything, despite how incredible a performer Stubb (Kalyn West) is,\nmoving like a gumby-sort of cartoon character the whole time. The greatest\nsegment of this vaudeville section is the character- and 4th<\/sup>\nwall-breaking stand-up from Fedallah, Eric Berryman, who takes the opportunity\nto decry how this \u2018exotic foreign\u2019 character was treated in the book AND to\ncall out Malloy and Chavkin\u2019s extra wokeness with their commitment to diversity\nonstage. It\u2019s a sort of timeout for everyone, and it is absolutely brilliant,\ngiving everyone both a breather and a challenge to their perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the music is magnificent, especially Ahab\u2019s first\nsong (when the band starts picking up, wow), early movements I don\u2019t know the\nname of because unlike the jackwagon next to us we don\u2019t read the program the\nentire time??, and the lovely, calm \u201cA Squeeze of the Hand\u201d. Others need work,\nlike Starbuck\u2019s big song before the act break, \u201cDusk\u201d, which needs to be moving\nand big but feels lackluster despite her performance. The line about \u201csomething\nties me to this man and I\u2019ve no knife to cut the line\u201d is okay, but not strong\nenough to be repeated so much and to hang everything on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the first act \u2018pause\u2019, about 15 audience members are\nrecruited to join the cast onstage for the rest of the act \u2013 in ponchos, and\nthen put in onstage boats and used in all sorts of hilarious amazing ways.\nVolunteer for this. Do not be like me and get scared and put your hand down. It\nlooked like the funnest, funniest thing ever. There are some blood spurts as\nthey kill a whale (you have to put your vegan blinders on for this one, p.s.)\nwith the abstract representation seeming shockingly real, but that\u2019s what the\nponchos are for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second act lacks the magical spark that we felt in the first act, even though it\u2019s objectively well done. The first section after the break is entirely about the child castaway character Pip, and it is heart-breaking and moving (with a great performance from Morgan Siobhan Green), though it seems inconsistent with what came before. The second part is the climax as the Pequod sets upon the white whale, and this is where everything \u2013 except Tom Nelis\u2019s literally flawless performance as Ahab \u2013 falls short. This is the big exciting exhilarating climax \u2013 or it should be, but the only staging to show the electrifying action is flashing the lights almost a dozen times. It\u2019s tiring, this blinding flashing, and pretty annoying actually, and doesn\u2019t accomplish any of what these moments should be showing. The ending needs to be bigger and bolder. And having the two sailors, often shown chatting at their lookout up the mast, having another t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate at the end did not work (along with all but their first such scene). It was very randomly and suddenly The Good Place, with their acknowledging they will die but giving a very \u2018why not still try?\u2019 vibe, which felt misplaced and didn\u2019t fit the rest of the show at all. (Also, that line about whale sounds\u2019 different rhythms coming together \u2018like West African polyrhythms\u2019 is a REAL clunker, oof.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But overall, this was one of the most interesting, ambitious projects I\u2019ve had the privilege of seeing. It strives for so much, maybe too much, and definitely needs to be refined before Broadway, but man alive if this isn\u2019t some of the coolest, boldest theatre. It feels right that Malloy be the person to musicalize this epic story, and it can, and should, become an epic in its own right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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INFORMATION<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first thing in my notes: \u201c21:24 intermission I DID IT!\u201d                    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the first act is just shy of\ntwo hours, with the 5-minute pause coming at the 50 minute mark. That pause is\nwhen they pick the audience volunteers. You can\u2019t leave during the pause, but\neven if you did, even if you have the aisle seat next to the door, you couldn\u2019t\nhit the bathrooms and back in that time because they are DOWNSTAIRS. It\u2019s a\nvery high school setup. The bathrooms are unassigned gender-wise, open to be used\nas one sees fit, which should be fine with everyone but caused a lot of\nconversation among the older crowd (mostly confusion about where to go). The\nline at intermission went all the way up the stairs and past the bar and just\nabout back to the doors to the theatre, so, yeah, run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happily, there is a water refill\nport downstairs with the bathrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second half is just about an hour 10 minutes, with the\nshow ending at 22:54. There is\nmerchandise for sale from this show as well as ART\u2019s big successes in recent\nyears, including Malloy\u2019s Natasha, <\/em>Pierre<\/em>, and the Great Comet of 1812<\/em> and my\nfavorite Pippin<\/em> revival of all time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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