Word: gfaller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Packer invited some of her assistants atShakespeare & Co.to help with the VDP production.Professional directors, voice coaches and fightchoreographers have helped train the cast,according to Joe C. Gfaller '01, who plays theArchbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Ely andthe Duke of Norfolk...
...play becomes as much about the process asthe final performance itself--so that along theway you feel as if you are working as much towardsrefining a craft as you are towards mounting aplay," Gfaller says. When the play opens tonight,the audience will be treated to refinedShakespearean "lamentations" and a full-fledgedbattle scene...
...become very intimately involved with thetext which makes it much easier to memorize linesbecause you've spent so much time with the words,"Gfaller says. Dropping in pulls meaning out of theindividual words instead of imposing meaning onthem, he says...
...Petre), and the other crap enthusiasts stumble over each other and gawk in bad New York accents with such silliness that many people (myself included) laughed 'til it hurt. Likewise, their constant escapes--and the vicious cut-downs they receive--from Lt. Brannigan (Matthew Johnson) are uproariously funny. Joe Gfaller, as the bass drum-playing missionary Arvide Abernathy, may not have the largest part in the show, but his strong voice and kindly yet amusing demeanor still stand out in the crowd...
Based on the Ingmar Bergman comedy, Smiles of a Summer Night, A Little Night Music leaves the audience perplexed. The young, the fools and the old all manage to pair up (more or less) successfully before the curtain falls, but one can hardly leave Gfaller's production with the feeling of having seen a romantic comedy. The resolution comes unexpectedly, and most of the characters remain wistful even in the arms of their lovers. This drama remains under the spell of Leonora's cynicism and the chorus's surrealism, just as the characters remain in the perpetual twilight...