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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 15, 2021 1:19:27 GMT
Adams has had a brutal year - Woman in the Window, Hillbilly Elegy, Dear Evan Hansen  ..........good move........ Adams is set to star in a new production of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie at the Duke of York's Theatre in London.
The show will be directed by Jeremy Herrin and also stars Paul Hilton, Tom Glynn-Carney, Lizzie Annis and Victor Alli.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2021 1:28:21 GMT
Amanda Wingfield is an interesting Williams heroine for her to pick... She seems better suited to Blanche DuBois in my mind. Wishing her lots of success - it's always fun to add a new actor to your screen/stage/television thread!  |
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 15, 2021 2:50:43 GMT
West End catching quite a few names for next year.... Chastain is doing A Doll's House around the same time as well, apparently.
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Post by Martin Stett on Sept 15, 2021 3:44:24 GMT
Amanda Wingfield is an interesting Williams heroine for her to pick... She seems better suited to Blanche DuBois in my mind. Wishing her lots of success - it's always fun to add a new actor to your screen/stage/television thread! That's... not a word that I would use to describe Amanda Wingfield. |
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Sept 15, 2021 12:35:48 GMT
Smart move.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 15, 2021 13:45:06 GMT
Not only is this a smart move by the way ......she's 47 so that's a black hole often for actresses (not always)........coming off a fairly disastrous year - and yeah I know she got a SAG nod for Hillbilly Elegy but so did Kidman for GoM so spare me what that actually "means"  .....but Amy Adams has a mindblowing stat that I posted in the Denzel Washington / BAFTA thread earlier this year......... She is 0 for big time on screen work - not just Oscars: 0 for 6 Oscars
0 for 7 BAFTA
0 for 7 individual SAG
0 for 1 Emmy
 Like I'd be running to the theater too in the face of those numbers.......... and I suspect if this goes well they'd transfer to Broadway although sometimes the West End stuff goes to BAM instead of Broadway - or at least did pre-Covid |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2021 14:30:24 GMT
Not only is this a smart move by the way ......she's 47 so that's a black hole often for actresses (not always)........coming off a fairly disastrous year - and yeah I know she got a SAG nod for Hillbilly Elegy but so did Kidman for GoM so spare me what that actually "means" .....but Amy Adams has a mindblowing stat that I posted in the Denzel Washington / BAFTA thread earlier this year......... She is 0 for big time on screen work - not just Oscars: 0 for 6 Oscars
0 for 7 BAFTA
0 for 7 individual SAG
0 for 1 Emmy
Like I'd be running to the theater too in the face of those numbers.......... and I suspect if this goes well they'd transfer to Broadway although sometimes the West End stuff goes to BAM instead of Broadway - or at least did pre-Covid 0 for 1 Olivier coming up?  |
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 25, 2022 17:14:36 GMT
Adams May 23rd / Chastain June 10thChanged the thread to sort of combine these two redheads / film, TV and now London stage rivals......as far as I know no American female has ever won both a Best Actress Olivier and a Best Actress Oscar - much less in the same calendar year....   |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2022 17:52:57 GMT
Chastain's Broadway reviews for The Heiress were less than stellar, right? Hoping this is a bigger success for her. |
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Post by countjohn on Mar 25, 2022 21:13:31 GMT
Maybe a bit old for it now but I really wish Adams could have done A Doll's House. The part seems to fit her like a glove and I think she could have given a really special performance. The two side by side in the thread title just made me think of that.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 1, 2022 17:23:40 GMT
Mixed it seems - some supporters.......for Adams........not a "Comer-like" debut thoughmedia.londontheatredirect.com/News/NewsGalleryImage/news-gallery-image_35615.jpg* "To be blunt, I loved her performance," wrote The Telegraph's Dominic Cavendish, external. "It’s clear, simple, believable, and quietly heart-breaking in its contained vulnerability." * In a two-star review, The Evening Standard's Nick Curtis said, external Adams "makes a muted and unconvincing West End debut", adding that she is "often indistinct, somewhat phony and offstage for a large chunk of the action".  |
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Post by futuretrunks on Jun 1, 2022 19:02:34 GMT
"muted". Often a word I've used to describe post-Junebug Amy Adams' acting, with occasional exceptions.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Nov 16, 2022 21:32:55 GMT
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Dec 8, 2022 21:12:06 GMT
Just got my tickets! I'm going at the end of May at the end of the show's run when I'll be in NYC for a conference. Been about 15 years since I was last at a Broadway show...
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jan 3, 2023 22:14:13 GMT
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Feb 2, 2023 8:00:41 GMT
Chastain discussing A Doll's House, talking a little bit about how they're approaching the production in terms of presenting Nora's character, and looking at the play through a modern lens.
Also, she seems to have lost her voice, so she sounds even sexier than usual...
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Mar 10, 2023 7:20:22 GMT
Reviews seem significantly better than Chastain's last foray on Broadway!
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Post by stephen on Mar 10, 2023 16:55:08 GMT
Really glad to see Chastain getting stronger notices this time around. She's likely to get an Emmy nomination this year and could be a threat for the win... would the Tony be also gettable, netting her the Triple Crown in a two-year span?
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 10, 2023 17:12:45 GMT
Really glad to see Chastain getting stronger notices this time around. She's likely to get an Emmy nomination this year and could be a threat for the win... would the Tony be also gettable, netting her the Triple Crown in a two-year span?I haven't seen this and and don't have tix but I would be shocked if she beats Comer - who I've seen on National Theater Live and have tix for on Broadway this year for the Tony - for reasons discussed in the Chastain thread iirc (?) in the Actors / Actresses board (?) - anything can happen of course .........but ............. |
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Post by stephen on Mar 10, 2023 17:22:48 GMT
Really glad to see Chastain getting stronger notices this time around. She's likely to get an Emmy nomination this year and could be a threat for the win... would the Tony be also gettable, netting her the Triple Crown in a two-year span?I haven't seen this and and don't have tix but I would be shocked if she beats Comer - who I've seen on National Theater Live and have tix for on Broadway this year for the Tony - for reasons discussed in the Chastain thread iirc (?) in the Actors / Actresses board (?) - anything can happen of course .........but ............. I knew you were going to come in here with your Comer stanning, and fair play, her acclaim is monumental and she'd be a huge threat regardless, but you're the one who also talks about how crooked and insular the Tonys are.  And Chastain's notices are great enough that she is competitive here. Just something to consider -- Chastain won the Oscar and is rocking some strong momentum, and she snatched the SAG away from Amanda Seyfried and blocked her sweep. And she's not gonna be competing against Seyfried for the Emmy, so HBO can focus their attention on Chastain (barring someone else that comes up later on). The Triple Crown is already gonna be on voters' minds. |
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 10, 2023 17:50:01 GMT
I haven't seen this and and don't have tix but I would be shocked if she beats Comer - who I've seen on National Theater Live and have tix for on Broadway this year for the Tony - for reasons discussed in the Chastain thread iirc (?) in the Actors / Actresses board (?) - anything can happen of course .........but ............. I knew you were going to come in here with your Comer stanning, and fair play, her acclaim is monumental and she'd be a huge threat regardless, but you're the one who also talks about how crooked and insular the Tonys are. And Chastain's notices are great enough that she is competitive here. Just something to consider -- Chastain won the Oscar and is rocking some strong momentum, and she snatched the SAG away from Amanda Seyfried and blocked her sweep. And she's not gonna be competing against Seyfried for the Emmy, so HBO can focus their attention on Chastain (barring someone else that comes up later on). The Triple Crown is already gonna be on voters' minds. Chastain definitely has a shot - the Tonys are also manipulable beyond belief too - not merely crooked and insular (though that too  ) - the amount of people you need to persuade batches of voters is relatively small - and feeds off momentum ........... so if you have some sway over the guilds and key associations in the voting body you can accumulate a lot of votes in batches ........I thnk this year it's like 800 voting people ....so there's always a threat of someone winning by like 20 votes or something ..........no way of knowing that - but that likely has happened - maybe often in the last ~35 years or so...... |
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Mar 11, 2023 4:18:13 GMT
Worth noting that while Chastain’s personal notices are mostly strong, reviews for the production itself are a little more mixed... the extreme minimalist approach to the staging doesn’t seem to be to everyone’s taste. Still, it’s nice to see Chastain get some redemption on Broadway since she seemed somewhat wounded by her experience with The Heiress a decade ago. Hopefully this gives her more confidence to do more theater in the future. Apparently, she not only sits in a chair for most of the play, but also for a good 15 minutes before the show even starts, just looking out at the audience silently while sitting on a circular revolving stage (she said in an interview that she tries to make eye contact with everyone in the audience as a way of connecting with them before the start of the play ). I saw someone speculate that this could be inspired by the play that Isabelle Huppert did off-Broadway a few years ago, The Mother, where she sat on a sofa in character reading a book on stage before the show started. Can’t wait to see it in May! |
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Apr 6, 2023 1:18:09 GMT
lol
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on May 3, 2023 3:20:08 GMT
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jun 6, 2023 10:36:40 GMT
Alright, now that I’ve slowly come back down to Earth (um, sort of ) after meeting my #1 actress crush... some thoughts on the actual performance: Seeing Prima Facie and A Doll’s House just a few days apart made for a fascinating contrast - if the former makes you go “How can she do ALL of that?” then the latter, as you’re watching it, is more like “How much CAN she do (given the constraints of the production)?” Both are different feats of physicality – one of endurance, and the other of working within extreme limitations. While I think Comer’s performance is the more impressive piece of work and absolutely deserves the Tony, Chastain’s is its own special kind of achievement. A lot of what makes her take on Nora compelling is the fact that it taps into certain behavioral characteristics that Chastain has already played quite vividly in some of her best film roles. Chastain excels at playing vain, self-absorbed, childish/child-like, condescending, manipulative, narcissistic (see Salomé)... and here she brings out those colors in a way that’s surprising and daring in how she is willing to make Nora unlikeable. This Nora isn’t simply a tragic victim, but rather someone clearly complicit in her own entrapment. One of her most startling moments is when you see her break during a rehearsal for a “dance” that she has to perform at a party – the episode is almost seizure-like. As for the production itself, I thought it was mostly effective, particularly in some of the lighting choices, though there were times where the direction felt overthought and overly preoccupied with emphasizing metaphorical imagery, which sometimes undercut the character conflict (particularly during scenes involving the Krogstad character)... basically it seemed too concerned at times with “representing” the drama instead of just letting the drama happen. Some story strands also felt a little too abbreviated since this is a condensed version of the play, but overall it was a strong adaptation. The way they stage the ending is pretty cool... for those who don’t know - instead of the famous door slam when Nora leaves, a door at the back of the theater opens up, and Chastain literally walks out of the theater (in character) onto W 45th St. That moment was actually pretty funny during my show because as she was walking out, you could see the DeLorean from Back to the Future driving by on the street (because random shit like that happens in that part of Manhattan), so the fact that the play is still supposed to take place in 1879 made it hilarious... just incredible timing.  |
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..........good move........
.....but Amy Adams has a mindblowing stat that I posted in the Denzel Washington / BAFTA thread earlier this year.........
And Chastain's notices are great enough that she is competitive here.
) - the amount of people you need to persuade batches of voters is relatively small - and feeds off momentum ........... so if you have some sway over the guilds and key associations in the voting body you can accumulate a lot of votes in batches ........I thnk this year it's like 800 voting people ....so there's always a threat of someone winning by like 20 votes or something ..........no way of knowing that - but that likely has happened - maybe often in the last ~35 years or so......
