The character “Redwood”, the music that opened on Thursday night at the Nederlander Theater, is the North California tree.
Theater review
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One hour and 50 minutes, with no break. At Nederlander Theater, 208 West 41st St.
On the stage, a large -centuries -old -year -old jumper, like the wooden lady and towers, enters the five actors. The compact piece of the designer Jason Ardeson West is very large, where the star Edina Menzel can, and the rest can expand its scope with ropes and wives.
Very bad Broadway offer called the name of the wooden giant is a toothpick.
The story of a woman in New York, the collapsed called Jesse (Menzel), who escapes west to the forest on the first anniversary of her son's death, “Redwood” is a shallow exploration of sadness that is clear from a central central metaphor: it's the TREE, roots and all.
Jesse collapses in the car without telling the photographer, the wife of Mail (dear, unbelievable) about her automatic trip to the other coast. Not even “so if you are interested in finding me, look at the western sky.”
Once he arrived in Urika, California, in the wild that depicted in a remarkable way to look at large screens, he stumbles on a pair of scientists.
Although travel thousands of miles away, Jesse is not a normal girl. “I hate green spaces,” announces. “If I am thinking about the grass, I am a lime disease.”
In fact, the writer Tina Landau suddenly declares her distinctive features as if in the “dating game”.
When Jesse Vin (Michael Park), a veteran and optimistic climber, said proudly, “I got my head in the clouds!”
His younger colleague Becca (Khawla Wilkoxon), irritated and skeptical, quickly replies: “I got my feet on the ground.”
I got my head in my hands.
Jesse, usually the addict of working on the risk, is immediately forced to rise the red wood that was studying. The Finn, the gentle hobby, on board the idea. But Becca is committed to the rules strongly opposes. (Clouds! Earth!). This confused character, whose volcanic anger is only exists to confirm the conflict where there is nothing, is the worst in the show.
Wilkoxon is in any case with her strong voice, but he is lost on the loud and recurring composer songs of the composer. First, Becca explains how Redwoods witnessed “the pain of the growing history of mankind”, a lecture “We did not start fire” that packaged in the birth of Jesus, writing Magna Carta and civil war. High!
It can be predicted with sunset, Jesse is still rising and descending bars. The air serials, in which the actors pushed themselves from the tree and revolve around it while it was accompanied by lush orchestra, active and leading to life. “I fly, Jack!” This type of things. At best, however, it is surreal.
Menzel's songs are designed with a bob belt, which is exciting in parts and vibrations in others. While it was lying less copies of the “Challenge of gravity” and “Let It Go”, you feel that the creative team's talisman was “giving people what they wanted.” Nevertheless, what we want is Menzel now – not Menzel in 2003. I was worried that it will not exceed some of the most difficult numbers. She approaches 2025 with her mother's representation.
On its own and the camp made hundreds of feet in the air, Jesse fights unforgettable elements and her buried fears and insecurity. In a windy monologue, Menzel is weak in a weak mother running to and from the memory of her son Spencer, even if her rapid poetic discourse may end with “moo with me!”
Music, which was first shown in San Diego last year, is related to the western coast fires.
There is a shock after shock. However, the very confused about “Redwood” is that it is a tearing textbook – my mom in mourning that re -discovering herself, heavy speeches about losing everything – leaving your eyes completely dry.
The closest to the remote influence is a quiet song towards the end called “Still”, and it sings beautifully by Zakari Noah Besser in the role of Spencer.
Jesse's ample interpretation of her son's death and rewriting it must be completely canceled, but Paser has a velvety sound and an emotional presence easily regardless.
“Redwood” gave me a renewed appreciation of “Into The Woods” and composer Stephen Sondheim. His presentation shows the same topics, and the song “No one alone”, sings quietly by Cinderella, is a wise contemplation of the loss between the papers that go directly for the sake of the soul.
There is nothing in the depths of Elsa.
