tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post4791630825300711588..comments2024-01-18T05:18:48.819-05:00Comments on Wombat's World <small>(a blog for writer K. A. Laity)</small>: Review: Rock 'n' RollK. A. Laityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05983280397279864583noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-3143752526977015262007-11-14T14:17:00.000-05:002007-11-14T14:17:00.000-05:00LOL -- I don't think you'll hear me saying that an...LOL -- I don't think you'll hear me saying that any time soon!C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-37864256905390323372007-11-14T13:34:00.000-05:002007-11-14T13:34:00.000-05:00You know, just for the barest second I thought you...You know, just for the barest second I thought your post started with, "No more mid-week martinis."<BR/><BR/>Funny, that.Chuckie58https://www.blogger.com/profile/04091560045834850119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-472342954656697362007-11-14T11:55:00.000-05:002007-11-14T11:55:00.000-05:00QoE: it's funny, but I've noticed the drop off in...QoE: it's funny, but I've noticed the drop off in emails on weekends from long term lists I'm on. It seems like the novelty is worn off and now it's work. But this has always been the way for younger folks, and they haven't realized they can unplug, I think.<BR/><BR/>Sweetie: any time!<BR/><BR/>I thought Cusack was really terrific. She had a lot more to do than Cox who was slowly eroded, but didn't have the same challenges (largely because he played a character oblivious to anything but his own ideals).<BR/><BR/>Nothing fully engages the senses like good theater!C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-75214441536491542412007-11-14T11:30:00.000-05:002007-11-14T11:30:00.000-05:00Great review! I agree with pretty much everything ...Great review! I agree with pretty much everything in it - <B>especially</B> about the audience. I felt really sorry for the actors. And I was just astonished at how rude the audience was. (It wasn't just because it was a "New York audience," either - we've seen plenty of shows in NY where such problems were minor at worst.)<BR/><BR/>I really <B>don't</B> want to think that the rudeness was <B>only</B> because older people made up most of the audience. But geez, it was the older people who <B>completely</B> caused all of the problems. You might expect that kind of behavior from younger folks who presumably don't know any better, or who have been conditioned by a lifetime of DVD-watching so that they act like they're in their own living rooms. But not from adults whom we are always told grew up with better social skills than "those kids today."<BR/><BR/>I've heard / seen clueless and rude cellphone users of all ages in other audiences, of course; but the cellphones weren't even the most annoying distraction that day. The people near us who couldn't manage to sit down and shut up can't claim as an excuse that they had a hard time getting to their seats and were running late - they were standing in the aisles right next to their seats for several minutes before the lights went down.<BR/><BR/>(I hate to harp on this so much, but I've <B>never</B> seen such selfishness in a theater - even in a movie theater.)<BR/><BR/>The play: As the second act began, I wasn't sure about <B>Sinead Cusack</B>'s switch in character to her first-act's character to her now-middle-aged daughter. But that was more my problem than hers, I now think. Her performance completely won me over after just a scene or two. <BR/><BR/>Just in case you haven't seen / heard it yet, there's a big <B>NPR</B> interview with Stoppard about "Rock 'n' Roll" <A HREF="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15792914" REL="nofollow">here</A>.<BR/><BR/>Thanks again for treating me to this day in NY, Sweetie!Gene Kannenberg, Jr.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04557131306122319206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-28564581335458766552007-11-14T10:00:00.000-05:002007-11-14T10:00:00.000-05:00Wow, thanks for the great review! I haven't been ...Wow, thanks for the great review! I haven't been to theater in too long!<BR/><BR/>The cell phone thing is just so out of control- I think they can be wonderful, but I find more & more that our culture of instant gratification & 'me-ness' trumps basically everything else when it come to these devices. <BR/><BR/>I find it laughable when student staff tell me how stressed out they are when they LITERALLY run outside every 3 minutes to take a call, text message in between & are IMing as well on the desktop in front of them. <BR/> <BR/>Perhaps ten years from now when all the stress catches up, they can text message straight from their pacemakers.The Queenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01941890139358671232noreply@blogger.com