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Some small productions work best in the spaces where they were built.
Not so withDana H., though, the unlikely crown jewel in this bizarre Broadway season.
Perhaps its because the cold splendor of a Broadway house provides such a good visual metaphor.
The audience rises in row upon row upon row, a tsunami glittering with 2,000 eyes.
At the very start, were told via supertitle that everything were hearing is real.
Precision is only part of her performance, though.
Here, OConnell goes beyond even what shes done before.
A suicidal, meth-addicted, heavily tattooed patient named Jim claimed he was finding his way toward grace.
Visions danced in Danas head.
Whenever she runs, he pursues her.
I mean, see how my world everything that was supposed to be right was not, she says.
Nothing was the way it was supposed to be.
But even here, she hasntreallywritten her story, right?
On the title page of the script, shes not credited as an author.
about eavesdropping on it.
And look … Broadway isnt usually like this.
Producers have stopped reporting box-office numbers, so were left with the intangible measurements to fall back on.
Dana H.is at the Lyceum Theatre.
