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I SEE EVERYTHING: The Norman Conquests
Most shows only require two and a half hours of your time at most, but one this season (and this is pretty rare) is almost 8 hours! For me, those 8 hours flew by in a snap.If you have seen it or heard about it, you can probably guess that I’m talking about The Norman Conquests, which won this year's Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. It's not really a full 8-hour play with an intermission or two, but instead a comedic trilogy of plays running in repertory at the Circle in the Square Theater (underneath the Gershwin Theater, where Wicked is).
However, if you want, every Sunday and occasional Saturdays you can see all three plays in the same day. The three plays take place over the same weekend but each play happens in a different room of one house. As I overheard someone say during the final intermission, “Usually, you have to imagine what happens to the characters once they leave stage - here we get to see it all play out in front of us!”
It was so much fun to see all three plays of the trilogy in one day, and I really felt a connection with all of the characters. At the end of the day, I felt like I had been through so much with them, and like I really got to know them. There were also many, many times where everyone around me seemed to almost fall out of their seats they were laughing so hard. Even though the individual plays are each very funny, it's even funnier when you can connect what's going on in all the different plays.
I’m sure you’ve seen shows where you really felt connected to the characters. What were some of these? Views: 0
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Comment by Sophia on August 7, 2009 at 11:42am -
Wicked is one of the only shows I've ever seen. And I felt connect to the charactors. Kristina I'm wondering too how the actors kept up their energy.
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Comment by Gavi Nelson on July 28, 2009 at 11:16pm -
jkjk
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Comment by Gavi Nelson on July 28, 2009 at 11:16pm
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NEXT TO NORMAL ....no explanation necesary
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Comment by Aaron on July 16, 2009 at 1:00pm -
Thanks for the comments, guys!
Completely know what you mean, Courtney, like I said here (http://www.broadwayspace.com/profiles/blogs/i-see-everything-why-ive-seen) "Something I find really important is that I care about the characters of Next to Normal as much as I’ve ever cared about characters in any show. It helps that the cast is also flat-out incredible. In fact, I never cried before in the audience of anything (except for a few shows where I laughed so hard I was crying…) until this show."
If I remember correctly, The set actually changes for every show to represent the different rooms of the house.
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Comment by LJS on July 13, 2009 at 8:05pm
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Loved Norman, and wish I had seen House/Garden, also by the same writer, but both plays went on at the same time in two contiguous theatres.
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Comment by Courtney on July 10, 2009 at 3:17pm -
I'm a huge Next to Normal fan, and for me, that is the only show I have seen that I felt a connection to EVERY character on the stage. The brilliant way the show was written really brought out the emotions of each character, and the acting was downright phenomenal, which made it easy to feel a connection to them all.
Aaron, I have a question about the Normal Conquests. I saw Spelling Bee at the Circle in the Square Theater a few years ago, and that type of stage really worked for the simple set. How is the stage used to show different rooms of a house? Are they minimalistic set pieces or fairly elaborate? It seems like either would suit the show well.
I was in New York last month for the Tony's and would have loved to see it, but my mom doesn't really care for straight plays. haha
:)
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Comment by Kristina on July 9, 2009 at 7:48pm -
First reply!
Easy question for me. A nearby school did a performance of Hello, Dolly! and the actess who played Dolly was so believeable and connected with her audience so well that it felt like you had known her and everything about her for a long, long time. On a totally different topic, this play sounds like a lot of fun! But 8 hours?!?!? God, that's a long time! How do those actors keep up that energy? It must be ridiculously hard. How do you think they did it?
~Kristina who changes topics really quickly
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