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Mar 27, 2024 · The Independent. ★★★. "Sheridan Smith exquisitely self-destructs in weird meta-West End musical". "Rufus Wainwright’s songs reach new emotional heights, Smith’s performance is radiant – but Ivo van Hove’s stage adaptation of John Cassavetes’s 1977 film is sometimes misjudged". "Anyone who bought tickets to Opening Night in the ...
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night ...
Jan 1, 1978 · With Opening Night, John Cassavetes, the cinematic poet of middle-class inner turmoil, explores the angst-ridden world of a famous actress on the brink of breakdown. Preparing a difficult role in ...
Synopsis. Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but ...
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PG-13. 1977. 2 hr 24 min. 7.9 (11,993) 69. Opening Night is a 1977 drama film directed and written by John Cassavetes. This movie tells the story of a woman named Myrtle Gordon, played by Gena Rowlands, who is a renowned actress preparing for her latest play, The Second Woman. The movie is set during the rehearsals and performances leading up ...
Mar 22, 2024 · Given the dismissive reception it got at the time, Cassavetes would surely have been astonished that his 1977 film Opening Night, the study of an existential crisis in theatreland, has been ...
“Opening Night,” a 1977 film that is being shown as part of the current Cassavetes revival season, is of a piece with two other films directed by Cassavetes and starring Rowlands: “A Woman Under the Influence” and “Love Streams.” In all three films Rowlands has a central role as a woman who is cracking up, but “Opening Night” is unusual in pinpointing alcoholism as the specific ...
