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I saw Love, Love, Love this past Friday!!

posted 8 years ago by FSUFilmFan
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Soooo....I went to NYC for a girls weekend and we went and saw Love, Love, Love! It was fantastic! I was so excited to see it.

Sooo...a few observations. The theater is pretty cozy. I had pretty good seats and actually sat in the same row as Ethan Hawke! I watched Dead Poets Society and Reality Bites dozens of times. I had to stop myself from standing in my seat and saying "Oh Captain my captain."  He is pretty good looking in person. It was really kinda cool how everyone treated him like a regular theater goer....no one bothered him or asked for his autograph. He was with a friend and a woman, who my friend said was his wife. There also was another actor, TV actor, who I have seen in crime shows I think...CSI or something. I cannot for the life of me remember his name though or what specific show. I will research that tomorrow.

On to the show....First....RA really can make himself look so young! His character is supposed to be 19 in the first act and RA really pulls it off. He looked great! He definitely looked like the RA we know and see in the second act and aged pretty well in the third act. The second act was interesting when I went...he broke a wine glass! He put the wine glass down to hard and shattered the stem. He didn't seem to know what happened and tried to put it down before i think he realized he broke it. Then he just kinda shrugged and downed all the wine. The audience laughed. Then the actress broke a cigarette but handled it similarly with a shrug and got another cigarette.

The play has some pretty serious themes but keeps it light with a lot of humorous moments. When the play was done, the cast came out and took a few bows. It looked as if RA was having a bit of fun with he young actress who plays his daughter as they seemed to be giggling at something. When he left the stage he was singing the words to the Beatles song.

Overall a great play! I must admit it was pretty cool to see him in person. If you are in New York, definitely go see it. 

FSUMovieFan

[–] peacefrogjennie 8 years ago

Sounds like you had a really great time. I'm glad. I wish that I could see the play but I live on the west coast and can't afford it. So, I'm forced to live vicariously through others. Did you do the stage door?

[–] FSUFilmFan 8 years ago

Unfortunately I did not stay and do the stage door. My friends and I had plans afterwards. There were a bunch of people waiting afterwards. I saw one lady with what looked to be a very old copy of the Hobbit.

Sorry you can't see the play!

FSUMovieFan

[–] jaydall 8 years ago

Thanks very much, FSU. I enjoyed reading that. I heard about Ethan Hawke - was that you tweeting about him? Here's someone tweeting about the broken glass incident. I wondered if the actors were stressed after the election results and not concentrating possibly:

https://twitter.com/UltraVeloce/status/797300553084760064

And here's a shot of them taking a bow with Zoe giving him a cuddle - and, yes, I would say that they both do father/daughter really well.

https://twitter.com/DaphneHS/status/797931044963897345

I'm so glad that he managed to do a 19 year old so well: that is the trickiest bit of the play for any actor, I reckon. One young fan tweeted that she rather fancied him as a teenager and wished that she had known him when he was a lad, LOL!

[–] broughps 8 years ago

I wondered if the actors were stressed after the election results and not concentrating possibly:

Pretty unprofessional of them if it did.

[–] FSUFilmFan 8 years ago

No problem! No..that was not me tweeting but the lady and I were there on the same night apparently. The atmosphere in the theatre was light and I did not sense any political angst amongst the cast or audience. Between acts everyone was pretty happy and engaged with others.

I can agree with that fan about wanting to know RA when he was young! I think it was how he had his hair in the first act that really pulled it off. He had his hair down over his forehead for his younger look. His hair was kinda floppy with long bangs. For the other acts it was slicked back. For the last act, he had some grey in his hair.

FSUMovieFan

[–] jaydall 8 years ago

I wish we had a shot, FSU, of him with that hair when he is young. Apparently, those pics issued by the theatre show him in a wig which he wore for the first week or so and which didn't look as good as his natural hair.

He seemed to lose a lot of weight just before he started rehearsing. Do you think it was so he could look young and gangly in the first act? Certainly, I think we tend to associate a heavier build with an older man.

[–] FSUFilmFan 8 years ago

Having never seen him in real life, I can't really speak to how he looked before or whether he lost weight for the role. On screen, he always looked fit to me. He certainly is in person. The first act has him in a long fancy house robe, pants, and shoe less. No shirt. He DEFINITELY works out by the look of his abs.  I think he also is pretty good at using make up. He definitely had some sort of blush on his cheeks in the first act...or at least his face was a bit rosy. He was definitely more grey in the face too in the last act.

Do you have a link to the pics the theatre issued? I am curious to see what he looked like in those pics as compared to what I saw live.

FSUMovieFan

[–] jaydall 8 years ago

This review shows early pics from the theatre where he is apparently wearing a wig:

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/oct/19/love-love-love-review-richard-armitage-baby-boomers?CMP=share_btn_tw

And here is a series of stills of the play where he might still be wearing one:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BLyceB_jD7s/

But, I had forgotten that he had posted a selfie of himself in young Daniel mode:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMG-R00AufQ/