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Check in for To Kill a Mockingbird play at Saenger
Posted on 6/4/23 at 12:11 pm
Posted on 6/4/23 at 12:11 pm
To Kill a Mockingbird Playing today. Went and saw it yesterday. Outstanding production by Aaron Sorkin. Richard Thomas nailed Atticus Finch. The use of Calpurnia as a voice of conscience, sort of a Greek Chorus, was a nice stroke by Aaron Sorkin. The actor playing the judge sounded just like, and I mean identical to, Spencer Tracy in Judgement at Nuremberg . Dead ringer if you close your eyes.
It follows but doesn't follow the book. The play opens with the trial and then uses flashback scenes. Sorkin adds some twists to it. Finch starts out telling Tom that he knows the townspeople and they are good people who won't convict him. Of course, by the end of the play, his faith in them is severely damaged.
Anyone go see it this past week?
It follows but doesn't follow the book. The play opens with the trial and then uses flashback scenes. Sorkin adds some twists to it. Finch starts out telling Tom that he knows the townspeople and they are good people who won't convict him. Of course, by the end of the play, his faith in them is severely damaged.
Anyone go see it this past week?
This post was edited on 6/4/23 at 12:12 pm
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Posted on 6/4/23 at 12:33 pm to prplhze2000
Going tonight at 6:30. I've read good reviews from those who attended earlier in the week. Looking forward to tonight's performance.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 12:37 pm to prplhze2000
Damn! I wish I had known a few weeks ago. What a great book, and a great movie.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 12:39 pm to ronniep1
looks like we have a klukker.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 1:03 pm to prplhze2000
Went yesterday and it was excellent! Top notch production!
Posted on 6/4/23 at 1:04 pm to OakAgedandIceballs
I’m not into shows about birds, so gonna pass
Posted on 6/4/23 at 1:11 pm to OakAgedandIceballs
Found the bar service in the basement went MUCH quicker than the others and had much shorter lines. Much shorter.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 1:13 pm to prplhze2000
you forgot to mention how the play tries to use modern opinions on perceived police violence towards black people and apply it to the 1950's, aka the suspect getting shot 17 times. I believe that is very far from the book and over exaggerated. Also, the accent of the girl playin Scout was pretty bad. Play was ok, not excellent, and kind of a letdown from the book and film.
JMHO
JMHO
Posted on 6/4/23 at 1:14 pm to prplhze2000
I saw Richard Thomas in the Henry Fonda role in a production of Twelve Angry Men. My favorite play of all-time.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 1:38 pm to prplhze2000
It is on the schedule for next season's Broadway Theater League in Huntsville. We picked it as one of the shows for our package. We added The Johnny Cash Experience show as an add-on, too.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 1:40 pm to LegendInMyMind
quote:
It is on the schedule for next season's Broadway Theater League in Huntsville. We picked it as one of the shows for our package. We added The Johnny Cash Experience show as an add-on, too.
I bet your boyfriend is pumped.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 1:54 pm to jmon
The Scout accent was real bad actually but I'm not going to get bent out of shape over it.
The 17 times. Yeah, I know, but that was a very small part of the play. Almost mentioned in passing. Overall I thought it was a pretty good production. I think Harper Lee would've approved of most of his changes.
The 17 times. Yeah, I know, but that was a very small part of the play. Almost mentioned in passing. Overall I thought it was a pretty good production. I think Harper Lee would've approved of most of his changes.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 2:29 pm to LegendInMyMind
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It is on the schedule for next season's Broadway Theater League in Huntsville
Chattanooga too. We do the season tickets every year.
Our next season is great.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 2:30 pm to ThatMakesSense
You philistine...
Posted on 6/4/23 at 2:44 pm to jmon
Straight from the book, quoting Atticus:
“They said if he’d had two good arms he’d have made it, he was moving that fast. Seventeen bullet holes in him. They didn’t have to shoot him that much…”
“They said if he’d had two good arms he’d have made it, he was moving that fast. Seventeen bullet holes in him. They didn’t have to shoot him that much…”
Posted on 6/4/23 at 2:45 pm to jmon
Modernization would mean a bunch of blacks wearing ankle monitors beat some white guy to death in a carjacking and the DA charges them with driving without a license.
Posted on 6/4/23 at 2:47 pm to jmon
quote:Well, they made Harper Lee release another book about how Atticus was actually a super duper racist, so it's already been poisoned by leftism.
you forgot to mention how the play tries to use modern opinions on perceived police violence towards black people and apply it to the 1950's, aka the suspect getting shot 17 times. I believe that is very far from the book and over exaggerated
Posted on 6/4/23 at 4:47 pm to Displaced
ATL has to wait a year. Haha
Posted on 6/4/23 at 5:31 pm to prplhze2000
I was gonna go but I saw on the Facebook that the Playbill had a rainbow header. Who would’ve thought the pride folks would take over theatre too 
Joking, everybody I’ve heard that went enjoyed it
Joking, everybody I’ve heard that went enjoyed it
Posted on 6/4/23 at 5:32 pm to blueboy
quote:She didn't even write the first book
Well, they made Harper Lee release another book about how Atticus was actually a super duper racist, so it's already been poisoned by leftism
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