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I saw Equus last night--feels like I have to mention that! What a wonderfully silly play, so crazy bizarre in a way only something written for the theater in 1973 could be. I was giggling madly (but totally silently and respectfully) through much of it—which should not be taken as a sign of contempt. It's just kind of delightful.
Okay, I did slam down a glass of wine at intermission after having Oreos for dinner and that might have encouraged more (still silent!) giggles, but it just made the play all the more awesome. I can not think of this play without thinking of one of my favorite episodes of The Golden Girls in which Dorothy (Bea Arthur) comes into breakfast and announces that the night before she went to see Lyle Waggoner and Sonny Bono in a dinner theater production of Equus. So there would be times in the show where I'd start imagining the scene played by Lyle and Sonny against my will. That’s, like, the ideal production of this play in my mind to which all others can never compare.
( More on the play within. )
This meant I couldn't watch Obama last night so I had to wait until this morning to feel warm and fuzzy at him.:-D
ETA: I forgot to mention that on the way I out I was donating to Broadway Cares and the guy holding the bucket was one of the horses. I was all, "Good job!" Because I think playing a horse in this play has to just be one of the funniest acting jobs. It just so sums up a certain kind of acting experience. And they're good with their coordinated stamping and walking--all the while wearing metal mesh horse heads and these kind of awesome wire sculptured hooves. But yeah, rock on, man! You are totally a horse!
Okay, I did slam down a glass of wine at intermission after having Oreos for dinner and that might have encouraged more (still silent!) giggles, but it just made the play all the more awesome. I can not think of this play without thinking of one of my favorite episodes of The Golden Girls in which Dorothy (Bea Arthur) comes into breakfast and announces that the night before she went to see Lyle Waggoner and Sonny Bono in a dinner theater production of Equus. So there would be times in the show where I'd start imagining the scene played by Lyle and Sonny against my will. That’s, like, the ideal production of this play in my mind to which all others can never compare.
( More on the play within. )
This meant I couldn't watch Obama last night so I had to wait until this morning to feel warm and fuzzy at him.:-D
ETA: I forgot to mention that on the way I out I was donating to Broadway Cares and the guy holding the bucket was one of the horses. I was all, "Good job!" Because I think playing a horse in this play has to just be one of the funniest acting jobs. It just so sums up a certain kind of acting experience. And they're good with their coordinated stamping and walking--all the while wearing metal mesh horse heads and these kind of awesome wire sculptured hooves. But yeah, rock on, man! You are totally a horse!
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