New York Magazine Author: Scott Brown Article Mentions
Author, Scott BrownMentioned, Audra McDonald Mentioned, Faye Dunaway Mentioned, Tyne Daly Mentioned, Patti LuPone Mentioned, Dixie Carter Mentioned, Terrence McNally Mentioned, Sierra Boggess Mentioned, Zoe Caldwell Mentioned, Alexandra Silber Mentioned, Marquee Mentioned, Departures Mentioned, Julliard
Sierra Boggess and Tyne Daly in Master Class. I cant say that Master Class (playing at the Friedman through August 14), Terrence McNallys wittily imagined version of the tutorials held by a phlegmatic, reminiscing, mot justedispensing Maria Callas at Julliard in the seventies, has ever really spoken to me. Im no opera buff, and since Im in a confessional mode, I'll tell you that Im not much for divas either; at least, not as theatrical fetish objects. I mostly find them exhausting the regret, the defiance, the one-liners, I get it. (Nor did I see the original 1996 production of Master Class, which won Zoe Caldwell a Tony, and then cycled through Patti LuPone and Dixie Carter; Faye Dunaway took the role on tour. Even typing all those names ...(read more)
... Sierra Boggess and Tyne Daly in Master Class. I cant say that Master Class (playing at the Friedman through August 14), Terrence McNallys wittily imagined version of the tutorials held by a phlegmatic, reminiscing, mot justedispensing Maria Callas at ...
... won a Tony in the role Boggess is now playing, a nervy outsider who shows up, disastrously, in an evening gown, and might remind Callas a bit of herself and must therefore be undermined and destroyed. Boggess plays her with glittering diamond eyes ...
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