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mithras03. Had a great deal of fun, and not just because of Alan Rickman (though he was brilliant). The play has some flaws (like being populated by stereotypes), but the writing is just so witty and delivered so well you don't care.
At the very end of the play, in the tense silence of the climax, someone's cell phone rang. Rickman and the other actor bravely went on with the scene as the phone kept ringing, getting louder as it was fumbled out of the person's bag. When it was finally silenced, Rickman's next line--or maybe he improvised it, seriously, I want to check the script--was, "Hear it ding." There was an enormous laugh from the audience. Enough of a laugh that it cracked up the other actor on the stage who had to struggle to get a straight face and finish the scene.
It kind of took the wind of the climax, but to be honest, it wasn't that great a climax anyway. I was more interested in the dialogue than the plot throughout, so that didn't really bother me. But you have to figure that something like that, the actors get backstage and turn to each other and go oh my god and lose it.
Best line of the night (other than the one above): It's perfect, in a whorish way.
mithras03. Had a great deal of fun, and not just because of Alan Rickman (though he was brilliant). The play has some flaws (like being populated by stereotypes), but the writing is just so witty and delivered so well you don't care.At the very end of the play, in the tense silence of the climax, someone's cell phone rang. Rickman and the other actor bravely went on with the scene as the phone kept ringing, getting louder as it was fumbled out of the person's bag. When it was finally silenced, Rickman's next line--or maybe he improvised it, seriously, I want to check the script--was, "Hear it ding." There was an enormous laugh from the audience. Enough of a laugh that it cracked up the other actor on the stage who had to struggle to get a straight face and finish the scene.
It kind of took the wind of the climax, but to be honest, it wasn't that great a climax anyway. I was more interested in the dialogue than the plot throughout, so that didn't really bother me. But you have to figure that something like that, the actors get backstage and turn to each other and go oh my god and lose it.
Best line of the night (other than the one above): It's perfect, in a whorish way.
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Date: 2012-02-10 05:32 pm (UTC)Needless to say, I also didn't enjoy the idea that the one chick was so pissed at Alan Rickman that she fucked him half way to blind all over his apartment.