Girly, yes…but fellows like it, too!
No, not Irish Spring, but the stage production of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE that just finished up its run in Tucson and will be moving this week to Phoenix.
Reader emdee posted a review of the play in comments of a previous thread:
I saw this production at a matinee on Saturday and loved it. It was witty, romantic and right on the money. Anthony Marble as Mr Darcy owned every scene he was in, just the right mixture of ego with a slightest hint of vulnerability. He looked perfect, taking your breath away as he walked out in his period costume like he was born to it.
Nothing like a Darcy who is TEH HAWT, as the kids say.
The Arizona Republic talks about the story’s appeal to both genders.
“Who says guys aren’t interested in romance?” asks Seattle scenic artist Robert Dahlstrom, whose designs for ATC’s production have been the talk of Tucson and are poised to crank up Valley word-of-mouth once it opens at the Herberger Theater Center Thursday.
“Most of us want to find a woman who’s beautiful, loving and brings out the best in us,” Dahlstrom says. “That’s what happens in Austen’s novels - the boy gets the happy ending of his dreams. What guy can’t buy into that?”
Indeed!
We were bemused by the article’s declaration of Friends of Jane of whom we had not previously heard–including John F. Kennedy, Brad Pitt (who remembers back in the day when Brad was rumored to be playing Darcy in P&P3?), Kenneth Branagh (not surprising) and…Hulk Hogan.
October 4th, 2005 at 10:46 am
Wow the HULK is a Jane Austen fan!?!?! Now I have heard everything! LOL
October 23rd, 2005 at 10:06 pm
Austen stands in stark contrast to the chick flicks of today that denegrate men, portraying them as self-involved jerks, womanizers, or boobs. At least Austen’s men come in several flavors: dashing officers, handsome rogues, idle gentlemen, loving fathers, galant brothers, devoted husbands, good landlords, noble sailors, avid sportsmen, pawns, annoyingly ingratiating clergymen, status-seekers, hard-working farmers, etc. I’ll take Austen over just about any female author of the last thirty years.