Some nice reviews for Fred's latest role (although the play itself gets mixed reviews). I'm seeing it in a couple of weeks. Can't wait!
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/ob/10_05_09.html
http://www.backstage.com/bso/content_displ...75a7dc0c3fe24dc
http://www.curtainup.com/stilllife.html
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QUOTE (Maryinseattle @ Oct 7 2009, 11:06 AM) 
Some nice reviews for Fred's latest role (although the play itself gets mixed reviews). I'm seeing it in a couple of weeks. Can't wait!
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/ob/10_05_09.html
http://www.backstage.com/bso/content_displ...75a7dc0c3fe24dc
http://www.curtainup.com/stilllife.html
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/ob/10_05_09.html
http://www.backstage.com/bso/content_displ...75a7dc0c3fe24dc
http://www.curtainup.com/stilllife.html
You'll have to come back here and let us know how you liked it.
Field Trip Report:
The play was great and Fred was the best thing in it.
It's a complicated, sad story about love and death. He played the male lead, and the female lead was yet another woman with serious daddy issues (Sarah Paulson of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip). I've read in interviews that he considers live theater his first love, and I can see why. He's just magnetic. And you could tell he was having fun (as an actor, not as a character; even though there are lots of funny moments, he comes to a bad end). At the curtain call (standing ovation, of course) he smiled and gave the audience applause right back at them.
Bonus anecdote:
I arrived at theater with time to kill, so I wandered around the corner to a Starbucks. Got stuck in line behind some Greenwich Village character in a hoodie, a backwards Yankees cap and an ancient and ratty leather jacket, furiously texting on his IPhone and leaning on a fold-up bike. I was placing my order and standing there on autopilot when I heard the barista say something about Albuquerque. This of course made all my neurons stand up and swivel in the same direction.
Sure enough, the Village character was Fred. I was standing two feet away from him and didn't even recognize him. I wasn't even sure I was right until he replied to the barista in his familiar nasal rumble. It must have been the hat. Without the signature hair, he looks quite different. I was so surprised that I didn't summon the wit to say anything to him. Also, he was pretty wrapped up in his email, so I didn't want to invade his privacy. So much for my brush with fame. D'oh!
The play was great and Fred was the best thing in it.
It's a complicated, sad story about love and death. He played the male lead, and the female lead was yet another woman with serious daddy issues (Sarah Paulson of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip). I've read in interviews that he considers live theater his first love, and I can see why. He's just magnetic. And you could tell he was having fun (as an actor, not as a character; even though there are lots of funny moments, he comes to a bad end). At the curtain call (standing ovation, of course) he smiled and gave the audience applause right back at them.
Bonus anecdote:
I arrived at theater with time to kill, so I wandered around the corner to a Starbucks. Got stuck in line behind some Greenwich Village character in a hoodie, a backwards Yankees cap and an ancient and ratty leather jacket, furiously texting on his IPhone and leaning on a fold-up bike. I was placing my order and standing there on autopilot when I heard the barista say something about Albuquerque. This of course made all my neurons stand up and swivel in the same direction.
Sure enough, the Village character was Fred. I was standing two feet away from him and didn't even recognize him. I wasn't even sure I was right until he replied to the barista in his familiar nasal rumble. It must have been the hat. Without the signature hair, he looks quite different. I was so surprised that I didn't summon the wit to say anything to him. Also, he was pretty wrapped up in his email, so I didn't want to invade his privacy. So much for my brush with fame. D'oh!
QUOTE (Maryinseattle @ Oct 23 2009, 08:28 AM)
Field Trip Report:
The play was great and Fred was the best thing in it.
It's a complicated, sad story about love and death. He played the male lead, and the female lead was yet another woman with serious daddy issues (Sarah Paulson of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip). I've read in interviews that he considers live theater his first love, and I can see why. He's just magnetic. And you could tell he was having fun (as an actor, not as a character; even though there are lots of funny moments, he comes to a bad end). At the curtain call (standing ovation, of course) he smiled and gave the audience applause right back at them.
Bonus anecdote:
I arrived at theater with time to kill, so I wandered around the corner to a Starbucks. Got stuck in line behind some Greenwich Village character in a hoodie, a backwards Yankees cap and an ancient and ratty leather jacket, furiously texting on his IPhone and leaning on a fold-up bike. I was placing my order and standing there on autopilot when I heard the barista say something about Albuquerque. This of course made all my neurons stand up and swivel in the same direction.
Sure enough, the Village character was Fred. I was standing two feet away from him and didn't even recognize him. I wasn't even sure I was right until he replied to the barista in his familiar nasal rumble. It must have been the hat. Without the signature hair, he looks quite different. I was so surprised that I didn't summon the wit to say anything to him. Also, he was pretty wrapped up in his email, so I didn't want to invade his privacy. So much for my brush with fame. D'oh!
The play was great and Fred was the best thing in it.
It's a complicated, sad story about love and death. He played the male lead, and the female lead was yet another woman with serious daddy issues (Sarah Paulson of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip). I've read in interviews that he considers live theater his first love, and I can see why. He's just magnetic. And you could tell he was having fun (as an actor, not as a character; even though there are lots of funny moments, he comes to a bad end). At the curtain call (standing ovation, of course) he smiled and gave the audience applause right back at them.
Bonus anecdote:
I arrived at theater with time to kill, so I wandered around the corner to a Starbucks. Got stuck in line behind some Greenwich Village character in a hoodie, a backwards Yankees cap and an ancient and ratty leather jacket, furiously texting on his IPhone and leaning on a fold-up bike. I was placing my order and standing there on autopilot when I heard the barista say something about Albuquerque. This of course made all my neurons stand up and swivel in the same direction.
Sure enough, the Village character was Fred. I was standing two feet away from him and didn't even recognize him. I wasn't even sure I was right until he replied to the barista in his familiar nasal rumble. It must have been the hat. Without the signature hair, he looks quite different. I was so surprised that I didn't summon the wit to say anything to him. Also, he was pretty wrapped up in his email, so I didn't want to invade his privacy. So much for my brush with fame. D'oh!
Thanks for letting us know how you liked the play!
And funny that you basically ran into him. I wouldn't know what to say either. I've run across a few famous people but I've never approached them because I felt like I would be bugging them.
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