Director Ivo van Hove gathered his cast, including Gillian Anderson and Lily James, hours before the stalls were due to fill with famous folk on opening night — to make last-minute changes to his adaptation of All About Eve.
The film's best-known line, 'Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night', must have been close to the company's lips.
Some of the previews that had gone before were bumpy indeed. I saw one of them and put my unsettled feelings down to jet lag and the onset of a fever that all but knocked me out. Yet just a week later I was on my feet, cheering. Van Hove had triumphed.
Gillian Anderson and Lily James attend the press night after party for 'All About Eve' at The Waldorf Hilton on February 12
It wasn't a replica of the film that famously starred Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a true star of the theatre; Anne Baxter as Eve Harrington, who wants to usurp her; and George Sanders as the venal theatre columnist Addison DeWitt.
And, thankfully, the three stage leads (Anderson, James and Stanley Townsend) weren't impersonating them, either.
Someone close to the production told me the opening scenes on Tuesday hadn't been there on Monday. 'They were put in this afternoon.
Reviews from critics were mixed. I suspect some caught the show before Tuesday's big changes went in. Lily James and Gillian Anderson are pictured
Ivo insists his cast arrive at rehearsals fully off book, meaning they know their lines.
He can throw the whole play up in the air, and the actors will go with it because they know their lines inside out.
So when he changed everything on Tuesday they weren't fazed.
'Normally, a show like this is frozen several days beforehand. This was done in four hours, on the day of opening.'
The show worked for me. Townsend was a superb anchor as DeWitt, but the women — Anderson, James and Monica Dolan (as Karen Richards, Margo's best friend) — ruled.
Reviews from critics were mixed. I suspect some caught the show before Tuesday's big changes went in.
In any event, the piece, produced by Sonia Friedman and Robert B. Cohen for Fox Stage Productions, is attracting young audiences who aren't devoted to every gesture in the film. They're interested in the famous stage actors, and Van Hove.
It already has over £6 million in advance ticket sales — a record for a straight play that's not Harry Potter And The Cursed Child.
Mexico's wave of talent...
Six months ago, Marina de Tavira, the lady of the house in Alfonso Cuaron's masterful Roma, thought she'd spend a few days promoting the movie before going home to Mexico.
That was before Cuaron's personal cinematic memoir became one of the hits of the award season, garnering ten Academy Award nominations — tying with the Yorgos Lanthimos regal comedy The Favourite.
What surprised Marina de Tavira (right) were her nominations for best supporting actress, and the best actress citation for Yalitza Aparicio (left)
What surprised de Tavira were her nominations for best supporting actress, and the best actress citation for Yalitza Aparicio who plays the maid who (literally) clears up the mess her mistress fails to notice. 'It told me Alfonso's film had really gotten to people,' Marina said. 'Being nominated for an Oscar is something an actor from Mexico can dream of, but never expect to happen.'
She didn't expect Roma's historic win at last Sunday's Bafta ceremony, either. The Netflix movie won best film and best film in a foreign language — a mammoth coup for Cuaron and the streaming service. The wins came handily close to Tuesday's start of voting by members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Best picture rivals Green Book, Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Vice, A Star Is Born and Bohemian Rhapsody pushed their campaigns into top gear. The Oscar is Roma's to lose, though.
But Oscar has a rival...playwright David Hare. De Tavira has translated his play Skylight into Spanish and will star when it opens in Mexico in May. 'I'll never forget these months, but I look forward to losing myself in Hare.'
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