{"id":20874,"date":"2023-01-17T14:32:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T19:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/?p=20874"},"modified":"2023-01-17T14:32:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T19:32:23","slug":"video-report-anything-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2023\/01\/17\/video-report-anything-goes\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Report: Anything Goes"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Last night I watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/gperf\/great-performances-anything-goes-about\/13609\/\">the video of the 2021 <i>Anything Goes<\/i> revival<\/a>, with Sutton Foster and Robert Lindsay. Sutton Foster was good\u2014probably great, but at least over the video editing it was kind of a generic greatness. She is obviously a terrific dancer and singer, and she sang and danced extremely well, and she got laughs with her comic lines, and I don\u2019t have any criticism of her performance at all, actually, except that it seemed like the performance that any terrifically talented actor would give as Reno Sweeney.\r\n<p>And that was a huge contrast with Robert Lindsay, whose Moonface Martin was very much a different Moonface Martin than anyone else\u2019s would have been. I\u2019ve been trying to describe to myself what I think about it\u2026 the main thing, I would say, is that there was a tremendous sense of ease to it. He wasn\u2019t phoning it in\u2014he was absolutely present and focused\u2014but he was also clearly determined not to break a sweat. He had the audience eating out of his hand, without appearing to care very much whether he did or not. He also has the ability to wear his costumes\u2014which in this show include a priest\u2019s suit and collar and full white-tie-and-tails\u2014as if they were comfy clothes he had happened to pick up off the floor. He threw in little gestures and vocalizations, seemingly for his own amusement. The effect was endearing, at least to me, at least on the video, at least last night. I can imagine not liking it, but I did like it.\r\n<p>Of course, I have a generally positive feeling about Robert Lindsay, and have since the early 1980s. It seemed like the whole audience in the Barbican had that positive feeling, and he seemed to be counting on that. And, I mean, why not capitalize on the good will?\r\n<p>I suspect that the attitude toward Sutton Foster was different\u2014they had come to see her be brilliant, and she damn\u2019 well needed to be brilliant, and she was, and that was all right. And, as I say, maybe I\u2019m wrong about the audience feeling, since I was watching a video.\r\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I><br>-Vardibidian.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Which Your Humble Blogger gets a kick out of you.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theeyater"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20875,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20874\/revisions\/20875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}