{"id":4275,"date":"2013-08-27T20:16:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T20:16:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-04-16T12:37:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T12:37:27","slug":"thoughts-on-far-from-heaven-off-broadway-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laughfrodisiac.com\/2013\/08\/27\/thoughts-on-far-from-heaven-off-broadway-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on: Far From Heaven, Off-Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='imgPusher' style='float:left;height:0px'><\/span><span style='z-index:10;position:relative;float:left;;clear:left;margin-top:0px;*margin-top:0px'><a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/laughfrodisiac.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/uploads1854185438681377634443.jpg\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:0;\" alt=\"Picture\" class=\"galleryImageBorder\" \/><\/a><span style=\"display: block; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\"><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;display:block;\">The sold-out run of <em style=\"\">Far From Heaven<\/em> at Playwrights Horizons promised a more epic experience that the one I actually had. It starred the magnificent Kelli O&rsquo;Hara, was written by the musical team from <em style=\"\">Grey<\/em> <em style=\"\">Gardens<\/em>, was based on the 2002 Oscar-nominated movie starring Julianne Moore. I paid more than I ever have for a Broadway ticket, and I expected to be astonished. Aside from getting to listen to O&rsquo;Hara&rsquo;s beautiful voice live, I was actually disappointed. <br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The show put forth a solid effort, but it felt like a house constructed without a foundation. Considering how miraculously affecting much of the <em style=\"\">Grey Gardens <\/em>music was, I expected at least one song to make me feel something. Instead, I felt less than I do while watching episodes from season 2 of <em style=\"\">New Girl<\/em>. And that shouldn&rsquo;t be close to the case for a show about a woman, mother, wife in the 1950s dealing with her homosexual, philandering husband and her own surprising romantic feelings for her black gardener. I know! It&rsquo;s all there, waiting to be interpreted and transcended, and yet the opportunity was squandered. This show deals with pretty much the most serious dramatic ploys possible &ndash; all of them! &ndash; yet doesn&rsquo;t deliver emotionally. There has to be a really big disconnect among the creators for something like that to happen.&nbsp;<br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><\/div>\n<hr style=\"width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;\"><\/hr>\n<div>  <!--BLOG_SUMMARY_END--><\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;I would love for this show to move to Broadway, but only if it undergoes serious reworking. Several new songs that better fit O&rsquo;Hara&rsquo;s talents are necessary. Although she always manages to be good, even in things like&nbsp;<em style=\"\">Nice Work If You Can Get It<\/em>, her voice is not one that you let sit there on run-of-the-mill, generic, straightforward songs. Let her shine! Christine Ebersole&rsquo;s performance of &ldquo;Another Winter In A Summer Town&rdquo;, from&nbsp;<em style=\"\">Grey<\/em>&nbsp;<em style=\"\">Gardens<\/em>, gives me chills just thinking about. O&rsquo;Hara, just as capable of producing such a performance, was given no such opportunity.&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The songs need to be rewritten, plain and simple. The book needs editing too, as I saw way too much of Cathy&rsquo;s (O&rsquo;Hara) husband&rsquo;s office, and not enough of Cathy&rsquo;s best friend&rsquo;s seeming understanding yet complete and utter disapproval. I also didn&rsquo;t understand the casting of Steve Pasquale as the husband. Maybe it was because I couldn&rsquo;t understand what he was saying. Diction, people!<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I didn&rsquo;t actively dislike the show, but I didn&rsquo;t actively feel anything, which is a huge problem. Plays happen up on that stage in order to make you, the audience, feel something, and I felt nothing. I just wanted to badly for it to be the event I was hoping for. With any luck, severe changes will be made and the show will be entirely transformed when (if) it goes to Broadway. I sincerely hope this happens, because everyone involved deserves better.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sold-out run of Far From Heaven at Playwrights Horizons promised a more epic experience that the one I actually had. 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