On the performance I attended, dialects were way off, and young Billy could move gracefully, but his lack of ability to carry a tune or a persuasive acting scene resulted in a brash and hollow spectacle.
In Paris is based on Bunin's story about an affair in Paris between a former soldier in Russia's White Army (Baryshnikov) and a waitress (Anna Sinyakina) whose husband is away at war. Dmitry Krymov's staging has a striking visual and aural appeal, for a while. The seven actors speak mostly in Russian, with some French, while Tei Blow's video design has English-language translations rolling up and over the mock cardboard cutout set pieces of Maria Tregubova's design. There's unimpeachable beauty when the actors sing dialogue a cappella in Russian, while we watch the stage bathed in floating words. This would suggest an event about language, or translation, or something. But the story that unfolds is a predictable and trite romance, for which the marvelous theatrical devices attempt, in vain, to lend some gravity. There's little mystery to boy getting girl. What ensues after that is similarly unsurprising.
135 N. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Category: Theaters
Region: Downtown
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1310 11th St.
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Category: Music Venues
Region: Santa Monica
Krymov has great fun moving set pieces around the mechanically revolving stage, so that one minute we hear offstage voices singing, or playing Dmitry Volkov's haunting compositions, and then we see the ensemble "backstage."
Baryshnikov stands around a lot, striking suave postures. Sinyakina squeaks out her role like an animated Petrushka doll. If there was a larger point to all this, it escaped me.
WAITING FOR GODOT | Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Ave., dwntwn. | Tues.-Fri., 8 p.m.; Sat., 2:30 & 8 p.m.; Sun., 1 & 6:30 p.m. | Through April 22 | (213) 628-2772 | centertheatregroup.org
BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL | Book and lyrics by Lee Hall, music by Elton John | Pantages Theatre, 6233 Hollywood Blvd., Hlywd. | Tues.-Fri., 8 p.m.; Sat., 2 & 8 p.m.; Sun., 1 & 6:30 p.m. | Through May 13 | (213) 365-3500 | broadwayla.org
IN PARIS | Directed and adapted by Dmitry Krymov from the story by Ivan Bunin | Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center, Broad Stage, 1310 11th St., Santa Monica | Thurs.-Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sat., 2 p.m.; through April 21 | (310) 434-3414 | thebroadstage.com
The children of Billy Elliot The Musical spend years working on carrying a show for over two and one half hours, and you blow off their incredible talent. It would be acceptable to tear down an adult., Everyone but you knows not to destroy the self esteem of a thirteen year old who is doing his best. The show is the best, and the child stars are talented beyond their years. You are a bully!
Besides having experienced the complete opposite reaction you had to Billy Elliot The Musical (as everyone around me seemed to as well), I'm also taken aback to hear you talk about a kid barely 13 years old in such an awful way: "and young Billy could move gracefully, but his lack of ability to carry a tune or a persuasive acting scene resulted in a brash and hollow spectacle." While I realize you are 1) entitled to your opinion and 2) paid to judge a show fairly as you see it, I think you should 3) be a nicer person. Just my opinion of course.
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