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I spent the morning after seeingFlying Over Sunsetthe same way I assume everyone else did surfing Wikipedia.
Those hours I spent with my laptop were the best ones the musical brought me.
This daisy-chain acquaintanceship interested Lapine.
(You do not.)
But for all this visual hullabaloo, were not meant to think about Judith beheading Holofernes.
The image does not set up a theme or a motif or illuminate some unseen truth.
he cries, which effectively cuts off anything that might stimulate conflict or conversation.
Just as Huxleys wife dogs his steps, ghosts tailgate Luce.
Again Lapine calls upon choreographer Michelle Dorrance to set the vibe.
The gloomy dead tap-walk in a gloomy tap-circle.
Grant may never have met the other three, but Lapine distorts reality to get him there.
(Tripping in Malibu is the entirety of the deadly second act.)
Certainly Tony Yazbecks Grant seems ill at ease, even apologetic, throughout.
The key post-show discussion question in my small group was How did this get made?
But I can at leastimaginea version of the show in which it was funny.
Thats the thing, really our conscious imagination is more powerful than the subconscious.
Flying Over Sunsetis at the Vivian Beaumont Theater through February 6.
