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Post by spiderwort on Jan 12, 2019 20:23:11 GMT
I'd have also liked to have seen Lee J Cobb do "Death Of A Salesman". Fredric March did the film, even did it justice, but? Cobb supposedly owned the part. He did do it 15 years later for a televised play, but it's a revisit. I'm sure he revised a number of things about his performance.
I'd also love to have seen Cobb in "Death of a Salesman, " especially with Kazan directing. March was fine in the film, but based upon what I've read I'm confident that Cobb was great in the play and was the definitive Willy Loman.
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Post by tommyrockarolla on Jan 12, 2019 21:18:03 GMT
I'd have also liked to have seen Lee J Cobb do "Death Of A Salesman". Fredric March did the film, even did it justice, but? Cobb supposedly owned the part. He did do it 15 years later for a televised play, but it's a revisit. I'm sure he revised a number of things about his performance.
I'd also love to have seen Cobb in "Death of a Salesman, " especially with Kazan directing. March was fine in the film, but based upon what I've read I'm confident that Cobb was great in the play and was the definitive Willy Loman.
I completely agree. I do own a version of Cobbs 'revisit' on DVD. It's probably out there somewhere for streaming. It's great, but it's 15+ years later. As a musician, and someone who has acted 'a little bit'? Years later, I think? "Jeez, I could have done that differently", or? "There was more humor in the character than I realized". (<---that's a paraphrase for something Brando said about Stanley Kowalski). Well? I think this might be it. It's two different Youtube accounts for each act, so I'll post both, if you are interested.
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Post by spiderwort on Jan 12, 2019 23:02:17 GMT
Well? I think this might be it. It's two different Youtube accounts for each act, so I'll post both, if you are interested. Oh, thank you so much, tommy! I'm not sure, but I have a vague idea that I may have see this when it was first telecast. But I look forward to seeing it again. I love the director, Alex Segal, who came out of live television and was wonderful with actors. It won't be the Kazan version, but I'm confident it will be a lot closer to that than the Fredric March version directed by Laslo Benedek, who didn't have the skill with actors that Miller's play requires. Thanks again!
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Post by tommyrockarolla on Jan 12, 2019 23:18:12 GMT
Well? I think this might be it. It's two different Youtube accounts for each act, so I'll post both, if you are interested. Oh, thank you so much, tommy! I'm not sure, but I have a vague idea that I may have see this when it was first telecast. But I look forward to seeing it again. I love the director, Alex Segal, who came out of live television and was wonderful with actors. It won't be the Kazan version, but I'm confident it will be a lot closer to that than the Fredric March version directed by Laslo Benedek, who didn't have the skill with actors that Miller's play requires. Thanks again! You are welcome! Enjoy! Wonderfully? (<----and I'd forgotten since last I viewed this)? A very young Gene Wilder in an early bit role.
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Post by spiderwort on Jan 12, 2019 23:38:28 GMT
I will! And in the meantime, I wanted to pass along to you this short commentary by Arthur Miler about Lee J. Cobb in Death of a Salesman.
Incidentally, it's from the William Inge Festival archives. Not sure if you're familiar with the playwright/screenwriter Inge (Come Back, Little Sheba; Picnic; Bus Stop; The Dark at the Top of the Stairs; and Splendor in the Grass). The Festival is held every spring in Inge's small southeastern Kansas hometown, and they honor a prominent living playwright. People come from Broadway and Hollywood to pay tribute, share memories, perform scenes from the honoree's work, and a few from Inge's. It's quite a wonderful four day event. I go once in awhile, but sadly I missed it when they honored Arthur Miller. Anyway, I'm glad they have the archives.
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Post by tommyrockarolla on Jan 13, 2019 0:35:11 GMT
I will! And in the meantime, I wanted to pass along to you this short commentary by Arthur Miler about Lee J. Cobb in Death of a Salesman.
Incidentally, it's from the William Inge Festival archives. Not sure if you're familiar with the playwright/screenwriter Inge (Come Back, Little Sheba; Picnic; Bus Stop; The Dark at the Top of the Stairs; and Splendor in the Grass). The Festival is held every spring in Inge's small southeastern Kansas hometown, and they honor a prominent living playwright. People come from Broadway and Hollywood to pay tribute, share memories, perform scenes from the honoree's work, and a few from Inge's. It's quite a wonderful four day event. I go once in awhile, but sadly I missed it when they honored Arthur Miller. Anyway, I'm glad they have the archives.
Awesome! Thank you! I have, indeed heard of Inge! Great info and vid!
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Post by marshamae on Jan 15, 2019 16:06:47 GMT
I just watch the Cat on a hot tin roof clip and what I saw was Bel geddes being more of a house wife and nag, not at all a dish. The slip was a little humiliating, not the dead sexy , skin tight number Taylor did in it. And I would have had trouble caring about Gazarra as Brick. I have to assume the clip. Didn’t show The high notes.
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Post by marshamae on Jan 15, 2019 16:17:29 GMT
Jumping to Into The Woods.
It was a HUGE mistake not to cast Bernadette Peters as the witch. Magical Meryl Streep didn’t pull it off. The singing was pretty good but it didn’t have the deep focus and urgency needed. In fact None Of the singing had focus and urgency , despite good voices. The orchestra concentrated on discordant drone notes in the score and the melodies got a little lost. As one of Sondheim’s most singable scores that a mistake. It’s not like Rogers and Hammerstein where everyone knew the songs when they came in the theater. Rob marshall attended to that by making everything a little slower.didnt serve the music well, and since the lyrics depend on complex rhyme schemes, Rich vocabulary and ideas, I can’t help thinking even when they heard it, a lot of the audience didn’t follow it. With songs like these, you engage the audience with speed and rhythm , then they go look up the words. Finally cutt8ng so much of the score was a terrible idea. And making the witch so gothis and Harry Potter was a terrible idea.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 15, 2019 19:06:26 GMT
marshamae Right on about Into the Woods ! No idea why they changed so much of the second act ! My local library system has it stocked ONLY in the kiddies section and they have no idea why other surmising that it's because it's Disney and based on fairy tales. <insert major eye roll here> Vastly prefer my tape of the PBS original cast version !
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