One time, I met Matthew Warchus. It was awesome.
Once More, With Feeling: "Trilogy Sunday" Added at End of Norman Conquests Run
Audiences will get an additional chance to see all three plays in the 2009 Tony Award-winning Best Revival of Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests.
The producers announced on June 18 that they canceled the Tuesday-Wednesday July 21-22 performances and added a "trilogy Sunday" on July 26, which is the limited engagement's closing day.
Some fans of the interlocking plays say the best way to experience the works is in this marathon one-day sitting (11:30 AM, 3:30 PM and 8 PM) at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre. Several Saturdays and Sundays in the run were trilogy days.
The 1973 comedies Table Manners, Living Together and Round and Round the Garden are concurrently set in and around an English country house. When a character exits a room, he or she is stepping into a scene that appears in a later play - and the joke is richer and more immediate for audiences who experience it together in the same day. (Generally, you're nudging the same seat partner for all three shows.)
Director Matthew Warchus' production (considered a single play in the Tony competition) opened April 23 after previews from April 7.
The works "are ingeniously written to be enjoyed individually or as a trilogy, in any order," according to the producers.
"The action is simultaneous and each exit in one play turns out to be an entrance in another," according to production notes.
The plays have been performed on a rotating schedule during the week and are also seen in one-day marathons on several Saturdays. Remaining marathons are Saturday June 20, Saturday June 27, Sunday June 28, Sunday July 5, Saturday July 11, Saturday July 18, Saturday July 25 and Sunday July 26.
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Audiences will get an additional chance to see all three plays in the 2009 Tony Award-winning Best Revival of Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests.
The producers announced on June 18 that they canceled the Tuesday-Wednesday July 21-22 performances and added a "trilogy Sunday" on July 26, which is the limited engagement's closing day.
Some fans of the interlocking plays say the best way to experience the works is in this marathon one-day sitting (11:30 AM, 3:30 PM and 8 PM) at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre. Several Saturdays and Sundays in the run were trilogy days.
The 1973 comedies Table Manners, Living Together and Round and Round the Garden are concurrently set in and around an English country house. When a character exits a room, he or she is stepping into a scene that appears in a later play - and the joke is richer and more immediate for audiences who experience it together in the same day. (Generally, you're nudging the same seat partner for all three shows.)
Director Matthew Warchus' production (considered a single play in the Tony competition) opened April 23 after previews from April 7.
The works "are ingeniously written to be enjoyed individually or as a trilogy, in any order," according to the producers.
"The action is simultaneous and each exit in one play turns out to be an entrance in another," according to production notes.
The plays have been performed on a rotating schedule during the week and are also seen in one-day marathons on several Saturdays. Remaining marathons are Saturday June 20, Saturday June 27, Sunday June 28, Sunday July 5, Saturday July 11, Saturday July 18, Saturday July 25 and Sunday July 26.
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