Valhalla
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 5, 2004
Closed Mar 21, 2004
Opened Feb 5, 2004
Closed Mar 21, 2004
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Running Time:
2hr. 10min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 10min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Valhalla is a hilarious new play by Paul Rudnick that intertwines the worlds of two young men, King Ludwig II, The Mad King of Bavaria, and James Avery, a sexually precocious 1940's youth from Gainesville, Texas. As Ludwig searches for a life of operatic beauty, his aesthetic passions are redoubled through James, whose obsessions target a young man and his fiancee. This show is a uproarious examination of passionate and highly strung individuals incapable of censoring their more hallucinatory urges. Christopher Ashley directs.
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The first words that Peter Frechette -- wearing Little Lord Fauntleroy gear and a long, wavy wig -- blurts when he bursts through metal double-doors in Paul Rudnick's Valhalla are, "I'm out of my mind." After a pause, he adds, "With excitement." There's meant to be a joke there: Frechette, who holds nothing back in his exclamations, is portraying the 10-year-old Ludwig of Bavaria, a boy who ascended to the throne at 18 and was declared mad when he'd been king for more than 20 years.
But the gag doesn't work, because, for one, audience members need to know beforehand that they're watching a play about mad King Ludwig. It also doesn't work because it's just not funny. The same can be said f[...]