Both series have been widely celebrated and published; however strong the images are, though, they seem too specific, too much on one note, in this show.
"The viola part is often more interesting in the modern pieces," she told me, "but sometimes I'm happier droning on one note in a Haydn quartet, because I know exactly where that note belongs, logically and emotionally".
Ms. Pawk and Mr. Sudduth, on the other hand, never find more than one note in their characters, a problem in a play about wrenching ambivalence.
"We got one note in four years," Odenkirk said.
One note: In case you are as confused as we first were, the Avon Old Farms Hotel is no relation to the Avon Old Farms Inn, which is directly across the highway.
"On a school trip to Amsterdam I spent £300 on a brothel and spent the remainder of the night in a cafe," read one note in the latter collection, purportedly from a geography teacher.
But in the acting challenge, Kennedy struggled to differentiate her characters (and her looks), while Ginger shone, Pearl cranked it out and even Violet finally found more than one note in her acting.
But there hasn't been a Johnny One Note in history to stick up for the cops — cops who are shot at, attacked, pissed on, and reviled by everybody.
