The Fruminous Frankenstein & Theater Neepery in General

[neadods]

The days that The National Theatre lists for their simulcasts of Frankenstein are not the days that Shakespeare DC lists for their showings of Frankenstein, not even when you take international dates into consideration. So how that works, I don't know.

I do know that thanks to the efforts of a local Sherlockian, I'm part of the gang seeing it March 21, which has CumberCreature. Downside: Well, you see the pictures; the makeup's going to make him look like badly shaved monkey's ass. Upside: For 20 minutes *his* ass is going to be butt naked and it's for sure I'm not going to be looking at his face unless the camera people are very cruel.

Turns out that I don't even have to change cities to see it again if I want to see the reversed casting. I probably won't know until I've seen it the once if I want to or not - if I just want to bask in the unsutured Fruminous Cumberbatch, there's plenty of his work on Netflix. On the other hand, if I'm completely and absolutely blown away, I'll probably rush to the box office during the intermission along with most of the rest of the hall, probably.

Even having the choice makes up a teeny tiny bit for not being able to see the Tennant/Tate Much Ado. As will seeing the Seana McKenna Richard III, the show I was most excited about seeing in 2011 until Much Ado and Frankenstein came along.

Also, they just announced a major extension of The Importance of Being Earnest in NYC - without most of the current cast, but still with Brian Bedford's Lady Bracknell, so I may give suricattus another shout about trying to go up & see it.


Really. With all this fabulous theater, I'm completely calm about not being able to go see Much Ado who do I beg, bribe, or blow to ensure it's filmed? Hamlet was a money tree for RSC, BBC, & PBS, I'm just sayin'...


On a side note, the original novel Frankenstein is a free ebook y'all. I haven't read it in 20 years (it was required reading in a history of science class, of all things) but now I've got a copy I can check out before the show.

Comments

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I was exhausted on Miller's behalf after about two minutes.

Cumberbatch has said that the role wipes him out and physically hurts (he doesn't say which role; he may mean both). He's so exhausted at the end that he's asked people *not* to publicly post pictures of him from the stage door.

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

I assume he was referring to the Creature, though Victor is no walk in the park. Either is an emotional marathon. Victor has a burst of physical workout near the end, but the Creature is top-to-toe physical engagement from start to finish.