33 Variations [on Diabelli's waltz]

[aquablob]

Didn't see a topic on this yet, but this play [EDIT:] was just previewed on Broadway on Feb. 9 (opens Mar. 9):

http://www.33variations.com/

Written and directed by Moisés Kaufman (of Laramie Project fame) and starring Jane Fonda.

I am far from that part of the US and will probably not be able to see the show, but was wondering if anybody out there in GMG Land has yet seen it or has plans to do so.

(Also, Kaufman's protagonist—a musicologist named Katherine, played by Fonda—is modeled loosely on two of my professors, whom Kaufman corresponded with and character-studied for a couple of years... so I have a particular interest in reading/hearing reviews!)

[aquablob]

(Some more info)

http://www.lajollaplayhouse.org/PR/2008season/33Variations/Edu_Guide/index.html

[SonicMan46]

Well, I'm replying to a 4 y/o thread - LOL! 

But YES!  Susan & I just returned from seeing this play - a local production performed at the Milton Rhodes Arts Center - synopsis quoted below.  During the performance, a pianist is on stage playing through the Diabelli Variations; in our case, Louis Goldstein, a professor of music at Wake Forest University.  The play was written in 2007 and premiered on Broadway in 2009 w/ Jane Fonda in the main role. 

Tony Award nominee 33 Variations chronicles the story of a musicologist suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease as she works to solve music's greatest mystery and her relationship with her daughter in the final months of her life.  Separated by two hundred years, her obsession parallels that of Ludwig van Beethoven and might, for a moment, make time stand still.  Drama, memory and music combine in this extraordinary American play about passion, parenthood and the transformative power of beauty.

[Harpo]

Well, I'm replying to a 4 y/o thread - LOL! 

But YES!  Susan & I just returned from seeing this play - a local production performed at the Milton Rhodes Arts Center - synopsis quoted below.  During the performance, a pianist is on stage playing through the Diabelli Variations; in our case, Louis Goldstein, a professor of music at Wake Forest University.  The play was written in 2007 and premiered on Broadway in 2009 w/ Jane Fonda in the main role. 

One of the best plays I've seen in a long time: music history, pathos, mortality, humor, family relationships, pianist on stage, excellent actors, clever costumes. I would go back to see it again today. Though Winston-Salem is not a teeming metropolis, we have a lot of live performances to go to, with community theaters, professional musicians and actors, and universities (including UNC School of the Arts).