{"id":90424,"date":"2022-05-30T01:41:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T08:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90424"},"modified":"2022-05-30T01:41:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T08:41:17","slug":"calista-in-virginia-woolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/05\/30\/calista-in-virginia-woolf\/","title":{"rendered":"Calista in Virginia Woolf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I told you all about the shows I saw on <em>Broadway<\/em>.&nbsp; While I was watching <strong>Patti LuPone <\/strong>in <strong><em>Company<\/em><\/strong>, I thought what an interesting Martha she would be in <strong><em>Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Instead, I saw <strong>Calista Flockhart <\/strong>attempt the role at the <em>Geffen Playhouse <\/em>in Los Angeles.&nbsp; From her first entrance, I was distracted by her striking resemblance to the late <strong>Lee Remick<\/strong>.&nbsp; No longer is Calista the clothes hangar we remember.&nbsp; She is now a multi-layered, multi-dimensional, fuller figured (or padded) woman.&nbsp; That she isn\u2019t an ideal Martha is unsurprising.&nbsp; But she is eminently competent \u2013 high praise given my expectations.&nbsp; I would even venture to say that her first two acts were good\u2026in their own way.&nbsp; She\u2019s more bossy than blousy; more coquettish than cantankerous; more mischievous than malevolent.&nbsp; All valid choices.&nbsp; That it fell apart in the last act was not unexpected, but jarring nonetheless.&nbsp; She simply could not sustain her intention.&nbsp; Her partner, <strong>Zachary Quinto<\/strong>, was so low-key (even for him) that the first two acts dragged.&nbsp; His last act had some juice.&nbsp; He was coming up, Calista was coming down, and they never intersected long enough to save the show.&nbsp; One is almost grateful that these actors are somewhat young for their roles (although not chronologically) and they each have a good 10-20 years left to try them again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I told you all about the shows I saw on Broadway.&nbsp; While I was watching Patti LuPone in Company, I thought what an interesting Martha she would be in Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.&nbsp; Instead, I saw Calista Flockhart attempt the role at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.&nbsp; From her first entrance,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90425,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90424\/revisions\/90425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}