The Country Girl
May 1st, 2008Last night, Silvija and I went to see “The Country Girl” on Broadway. Who’s in “The Country Girl” on Broadway. Three Extraordinary Stars, that’s who!
(Just kidding. I am not an Extraordinary Star. Peter Gallagher is the third Extraordinary Star and is off camera. He was in The Hudsucker Proxy. He sang a Dean Martin song in the Christmas Party Scene.)
These are Broadway shows I’ve seen with Silvija:
In The Heights
High Fidelity the Musical
Spring Awakening
LoveMusik
There might be more of them. I can’t remember now.
The Country Girl was written by Clifford Odets. He also wrote an Elvis Movie. The play is a scootch on the boring side and a lot of the actors seemed kind of stiff. All of the non-MorganFreeman/PeterGallagher/FrancesMcDormand actors looked vaguely the same… like they all were related to each other and in some cases, seemed to be the same person. The show edited scenes by having the curtain sweep in from the left and then keep going and going and going until it swept off stage and then miraculously the set had changed. The curtain was my favorite part. I wish they could have done it vertically as well, but that would have been an engineering impossibility.
René “Odo, Guy from Benson” Auberjonois’ son was in this… Remy. He also played the gynocologist in the pilot of Mad Men and looks a bit like Josh Perillo. I looked him up online afterward and he went to Wesleyan Univerity. The guy who made In The Heights also went to Wesleyan (possibly at the same time as me, though I didn’t know him). I went to Wesleyan… kinda.
As Silvija and I left the theatre we passed A Chorus Line, now starring Mario Lopez. At that moment, Mario Lopez himself was leaving the stage door and was being mobbed… MOBBED!... by dumpy-looking screaming teenage girls. We walked back by The Country Girl’s door and Peter Gallagher had just come out and was being slightly-mobbed by a more sedate group of well-wishers. In the background, Remy Auberjonois and the guy who played the stage manager walked by unnoticed. Well, except for Silvija noticing them and pointing them out.
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