A Few Good Men
Sep. 8th, 2005 01:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperStarted off with Taz, Cathy, and Tom at Chiquito's for immense amounts of gossip, slash, musicals, John Barrowman, Jamie Bamber's arse in BSG, best technique for walking in heels and so on... Important things. And Tom's evil, evil idea of if the British got the Stargate. Let your mind envision the Stargate program being run by the British Museum and affiliated with the Army. Professor Rupert Giles. Major Sharpe. Asking how Ra's symbiote takes his tea. Cathy and I have decided this needs to be written.
Get to theatre, take seats. Laugh our heads off during the first act. Marvel at Rob Lowe's fucking fantastic acting, as well as Suranne Jones'. Both considerably better than Tom Cruise and Demi Moore. See our dirty minds sink lower anytime there's a hint of slash. Perfume lines do not help, nor does baseball, and nor does the face-off between Rob Lowe's character and Dawson, one of the marines he's been assigned to defend. John comes on, we immediately sulk due to lack of arm porn, (sleeves that little bit too long) not to mention showing our obsessiveness re: examination of figure. 'Bum is flatter. Waist has thickened a tad, but he'll lose it for panto. Shoulders are broader, and the biceps are definitely bigger. Still, verrrry nice.' And then have the Jack-Daniel thoughts. It's not our fault, they have chemistry and we have minds that immediately go to the Stargate place.
Interval, one of the ushers comes over to apologise, but someone around us has been complaining because we were laughing too loud. We're in the Upper Circle. The Stalls and Royal Circle are laughing their heads off. We appear to be the only ones in the Upper Circle to get the jokes. (seriously, at one stage I asked Taz if we were the Dirty Laugh sector) Decide to start quiet and then enjoy ourselves.
Second half, it's all courtroom, and some really good cross-questioning and nitty-gritty, with a few giggles and belly laughs. The denouement and killer line got a lot of shocked gasps in the audience - you're just not prepared for it, because you're so caught up you reckon they're going to lose. 'You can't handle the truth' is done fantastically (though not, according to Taz, as well as Jack Nicholson) and his sheer unbelieving rage over being arrested and believing he's right is damn impressive.
John is great, that's all I'll say, but Rob Lowe's probably the stand-out. The guys playing the defendants? Damn good - variously scared, variously dumb, so caught up in what it means to be a Marine that it's more to them to be a Marine and get locked up for forty years than get a dishonorable discharge and be out in six months.
Staging is impressive - first half taking place variously in Guatanamo and back rooms in Washington, done with sliding wire fencing to give the impression of drab government rooms, baseball park fences, and military bases. Sometimes full lit, sometimes part dark that then gets lit to do flashback scenes giving more illumination on what went on leading up to the death of the marine. With occasional marines tramping through chanting the '1,2,3,4' chants. The same device is used in second half, which is in the courtroom with the attendant courtroom furniture.
Anyway. Highly recommended. Pondering how many times John is going to play a character called Jack. So far we count four, we're sure he's done more.
Stalking the stage door - John came out fairly early, he loved the bouquet from the fans, we signed, he laughed when we told him about laughing too much, got a photo with him, then asked after Cathy's mate Kristen when she produced her cd cover of The Fix and said Kristen (played his character's girlfriend) said hi. Then Suranne came out, she's lovely, and had noticed us laughing, as well as going 'you don't have anymore cookies, do you, I'm starving' when for some reason we'd mentioned them. Gave her last ones. Rob Lowe also very nice, not nearly as nice as John, but well... We're John stalkers.
John's number plate ends in JSB. Does anyone know what his middle name is? Too lazy at the moment to find out on IMDB.
Get to theatre, take seats. Laugh our heads off during the first act. Marvel at Rob Lowe's fucking fantastic acting, as well as Suranne Jones'. Both considerably better than Tom Cruise and Demi Moore. See our dirty minds sink lower anytime there's a hint of slash. Perfume lines do not help, nor does baseball, and nor does the face-off between Rob Lowe's character and Dawson, one of the marines he's been assigned to defend. John comes on, we immediately sulk due to lack of arm porn, (sleeves that little bit too long) not to mention showing our obsessiveness re: examination of figure. 'Bum is flatter. Waist has thickened a tad, but he'll lose it for panto. Shoulders are broader, and the biceps are definitely bigger. Still, verrrry nice.' And then have the Jack-Daniel thoughts. It's not our fault, they have chemistry and we have minds that immediately go to the Stargate place.
Interval, one of the ushers comes over to apologise, but someone around us has been complaining because we were laughing too loud. We're in the Upper Circle. The Stalls and Royal Circle are laughing their heads off. We appear to be the only ones in the Upper Circle to get the jokes. (seriously, at one stage I asked Taz if we were the Dirty Laugh sector) Decide to start quiet and then enjoy ourselves.
Second half, it's all courtroom, and some really good cross-questioning and nitty-gritty, with a few giggles and belly laughs. The denouement and killer line got a lot of shocked gasps in the audience - you're just not prepared for it, because you're so caught up you reckon they're going to lose. 'You can't handle the truth' is done fantastically (though not, according to Taz, as well as Jack Nicholson) and his sheer unbelieving rage over being arrested and believing he's right is damn impressive.
John is great, that's all I'll say, but Rob Lowe's probably the stand-out. The guys playing the defendants? Damn good - variously scared, variously dumb, so caught up in what it means to be a Marine that it's more to them to be a Marine and get locked up for forty years than get a dishonorable discharge and be out in six months.
Staging is impressive - first half taking place variously in Guatanamo and back rooms in Washington, done with sliding wire fencing to give the impression of drab government rooms, baseball park fences, and military bases. Sometimes full lit, sometimes part dark that then gets lit to do flashback scenes giving more illumination on what went on leading up to the death of the marine. With occasional marines tramping through chanting the '1,2,3,4' chants. The same device is used in second half, which is in the courtroom with the attendant courtroom furniture.
Anyway. Highly recommended. Pondering how many times John is going to play a character called Jack. So far we count four, we're sure he's done more.
Stalking the stage door - John came out fairly early, he loved the bouquet from the fans, we signed, he laughed when we told him about laughing too much, got a photo with him, then asked after Cathy's mate Kristen when she produced her cd cover of The Fix and said Kristen (played his character's girlfriend) said hi. Then Suranne came out, she's lovely, and had noticed us laughing, as well as going 'you don't have anymore cookies, do you, I'm starving' when for some reason we'd mentioned them. Gave her last ones. Rob Lowe also very nice, not nearly as nice as John, but well... We're John stalkers.
John's number plate ends in JSB. Does anyone know what his middle name is? Too lazy at the moment to find out on IMDB.
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Date: 2005-09-08 09:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-09 11:39 am (UTC)Search thingy (http://www.usa-people-search.com/order.aspx?id=1397639895&record=78&fn=John&ln=Barrowman) Tha boy's lived everywhere.
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Date: 2005-09-09 11:41 am (UTC)We thought it might be Scot.
Ta muchly :-D
xXxTaz