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About three-quarters of the best way via each efficiency of David Adjmi’s Tony-winning play Stereophonic, two characters – Holly, the British keyboardist/vocalist (performed by Juliana Canfield) and Grover, the American recording engineer (Eli Gelb) get right into a debate over their favourite motion pictures. Their favourite erotic motion pictures, to be precise.
The setting being, because it have been, a cantankerous rock & roll recording studio session circa 1976, there’s no shock that Holly and Grover doubtless gained’t agree, and certainly, Grover chooses Final Tango in Paris, ensuring to level out that each girl he’s ever dated has had a crush on Marlon Brando.
Not so Holly. She finds Brando imply and misogynist, and far prefers the delicate poignance of Donald Sutherland within the grief-stricken romantic thriller Don’t Look Now.
Now, Holly mentions Don’t Look Now each night time, however on Friday night time the phrases landed fairly a bit in a different way among the many viewers at Broadway‘s Golden Theatre: Sutherland died simply two days in the past at 88 following a prolonged sickness.
As quickly as Holly started to extol the romantic, melancholy attraction of Sutherland, the Broadway viewers gasped as one after which set free a heartbroken mix of “oooohhhs” and “aawwwws.”
As Canfield continued her scripted reward of Sutherland and his Don’t Look Now grief-stricken efficiency, the viewers on the Golden peppered the speech with scattered applause and different expressions of commiseration.
“Relaxation in Peace, Donald Sutherland,” tweeted Stereophonic playwright David Adjmi, predicting his viewers’s feelings to the be aware.
See moreRest in Peace, Donald Sutherland.
— David Adjmi (@dadjmi) June 20, 2024