Word: rosencrantzes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deals for students is its priority ticket service, insuring that students get the best seats available at the price they pay. Generally this is pretty straightforward -- BAD buys up a block of seats and distributes them to students as the orders come in--but when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead came from New York to the Schubert, BAD, negotiated a special deal with David Merrick's office. Along with running sales through the priority ticket service, Merrick had agreed to a discount price for students--the first time any legitimate theatre had done so. Students were to be charged...
There is absolutely no reason in the world to miss Rosencrantz this week. This may be your last chance to see the original production, and I don't see how anyone can afford to miss an opportunity to fall in love...
WORST OF ALL, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern find even their own identities in doubt. Not only do Shakespeare's characters find it difficult to distinguish between the two, but the title characters themselves have difficulty determining which of them is which...
...calmly, hopefully. ("Well, we'll know better next time.") In this hint of optimism, there is perhaps hope for surviving in a world in which "we drift through time, clutching at straws." And, when Stoppard shows us part of Hamlet's final scene, the English Ambassador's pronouncement "that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead" elicits the audience realization that death may be the only event it can count on in an insane universe...
...production has experienced some cast changes since the Broadway run, none of which affect the extraordinary quality of the production. Brian Murray, the original Rosencrantz, now has his characterization perfect. Laughing at the winds as he struggles along trying to penetrate the morass in which he finds himself, Murray makes his portrayal rival Alec McCowen's Hadrian in its timing and intensity. In addition, the Derek Goldby staging remains as graceful and moving as a year ago, and the Richard Pilbrow lighting plot still strikes me as the best I've ever seen...