New Company Pictures
New Company Pictures
ThePinballWizard
Leading Actor Joined: 1/25/06
#0New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/18/06 at 5:15pm
Just thought you might want to take a look at these!
"Isn't it strange that we spend most of our time learning to do what they put people in asylums for." - Jane Fonda on Acting
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#1re: New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/18/06 at 5:16pmLooks a little boring to me, but I am not a fan of the show to begin with.
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#3re: New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/18/06 at 5:25pm
I'm going over Spring Break!
Thank you for the pictures!
Raul looks more beautiful than ever....is that possible?
ThePinballWizard
Leading Actor Joined: 1/25/06
#4re: New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/18/06 at 5:28pmNo the theater is not really that small but I believe this is the intention that they were looking for. There was no need to destroy the intimacy of the piece with them playing instruments across a 50 foot stage.
"Isn't it strange that we spend most of our time learning to do what they put people in asylums for." - Jane Fonda on Acting
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#5re: New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/18/06 at 5:37pmyeah, makes sense. I was just asking cause the stage looks kinda small from the photos, so I didn't know how big the theater was. I wish i could see it. not sure if its worth the 7 hour drive.
scottcain
Swing Joined: 5/12/03
#6re: New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/18/06 at 5:38pm
Attached is a review from Talkin' Broadway with another photo.
Scott
Review of Cincinnati COMPANY
#7re: New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/18/06 at 5:44pmI agree. It looks pretty boring. I don't think I could sit through it. I'm not a huge fan of the music, so seeing it like this would probably make me hate it more.
#8re: New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/18/06 at 5:53pm
I love that 3 or 4 pictures make a show, that is clearly about the audio more than the visual, boring.
Updated On: 3/18/06 at 05:53 PM
#9re: New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/18/06 at 6:24pm
The theatre is far bigger than the seating chart makes it look, IMO.
I love that last photo; I didn't see that one at the Playhouse.
I just came back from Cincinnati. It's not boring. I think the show could benefit from color, perhaps, in a kind-of cliché metaphorical way -- you know, everyone in color and Bobby in all black, or something. But the color and mimimalism help to update it -- it's sexy and modern.
#10re: New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/18/06 at 11:16pmthat looks AMAZING
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#11re: New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/18/06 at 11:28pm
There's a wall of production photos in the lobby at the theatre... I took some photos of them to share. The pictures are glorious, but my photos didn't turn out that well, unfortunately.
Here they are:
#12re: New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/19/06 at 12:08amRaul...yum......
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#14re: New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/19/06 at 12:19am
Gorgeous, huh? 
#15re: New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/19/06 at 6:32am
Fantastic photos! Thanks for posting them!
TT
P.S. - The glare in the one photo makes it look like the actress is exploding. :)
"Me flunk English? That's unpossible!" - Ralph Wiggum
#16re: New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/19/06 at 11:41am
Oh John Doyle...
I love this concept.
You know it and you want it... you just can't believe you've got it.
#17re: New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/19/06 at 11:42am
P.S. - The glare in the one photo makes it look like the actress is exploding.
heh. Someone else said it looked like I was censoring something in the photo. :)
Neither, just my silly flash.
#18re: New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/19/06 at 11:49am
oh wow! looks sleek and sophisticated and more modern than other versions of "Company" i've ever seen.
i hope it comes to Bway, John Doyle has such a unique eye for presenting well-known works in a totally original way. He makes it feel like i'm seeing and hearing Sondheim for the very first time, which i think we all can agree is fab-u-lous!
what other shows do you think Doyle should try his hand at?
Don't f*ck with me fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.
#19re: New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/19/06 at 11:53amI'm not a fan of how this looks. It looks boring. Of course, it doesn't matter being a Sondheim show I could sit through it 100 times.
#20re: New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/19/06 at 11:55amI'm still a little perplexed as to why this all seems boring. There's not a lot of STUFF to look at, but you have people singing, acting, dancing and playing instruments at the same time. You don't need objects and set pieces and pretty colors to entertain you -- there's plenty to keep you busy and engaged. There's so much going on, just in the hands of these actors. Same with Sweeney, IMO.
#21re: New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/19/06 at 12:05pmi think what Doyle has done is to emphasis Sondheim's music and also the words and lyrics, he has distilled his productions to give these the main impact - but it's more than a "concert" performance because it takes place in a specific world where these people can say these things in a natural, but still presentational, way.
Don't f*ck with me fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.
#22re: New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/19/06 at 12:21pmI'm laughing at how anyone can look at a snapshot and decide a show is boring. Boggles the mind...
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
#23re: New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/19/06 at 12:41pm
Emcee.
I'm eager to hear your thoughts on Walsh's "The Ladies Who Lunch" and how Laws handled "Gettting Married Today."
Do tell.
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
#24re: New Company Pictures
Posted: 3/19/06 at 12:48pm
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=890574&dt=0
And to expand. Hm. The Ladies Who Lunch was alright. I know it was intended, but her voice drove me up. the. wall. I don't think I'd call Walsh boring, like I've heard some people do, but she was almost too deadpan there and kind of blah. I'm not sure what I'd like to see done with it to make it better, though, which probably makes my assessment sort of moot.
Getting Married Today was one of my favorite parts, and one of the funniest. Fantastic across the boards.
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