Word: staging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Direction, while generally functional, is faulty in several areas. Most distracting was how the furniture and the characters were placed in flat, absolutely straight lines. Pacing and opening-night jitters, also suffered from inadequate directorial control at times. The movement on stage was generally realistic, but voice projection levels were wildly different, in ways not explainable by character difference...
Regardless of the weakness of this production, one can't get around the one point I'm going to push: whether on film or on stage, this is a great story no matter who is doing it. So go and make your own comparisons. All in all, though, I'd rather be in Philadelphia
...Tammy take the stage. The capacity audience goes wild...
...enraptured crowd claps excitedly and hurls dollars and children onto the stage while a team of bodyguards escort Jim, Charo, and Tammy to their respective limosines. Tammy is able to swipe some of the cash off the stage and exchange it for a few hits of valium before she and her entourage are scurried away to continue their work for God somewhere in the Holy Jacuzzi of their Holy Mansion. On the way out, Barbara Walters manages to get a question through to Jim Bakker...
Inside the concert hall, Oral Roberts takes the stage to introduce the next...