Terror and wonder segue into more pedestrian feelings — including annoyance and a sense of opportunities lost — as this two-hour, intermission-free production continues on its brutal course.
First produced last summer, at London's Donmar Warehouse, with the same cast, the almost two-hour show is performed without an intermission, but it is filled with pauses.
Despite his and Ms. Young's very appealing performances, this two-hour show is not for the restless: it is performed without intermission.
The intermission began at 8 19 p.m.; it was still under way 34 minutes later when some in the audience began to clap in unison, as they passed their two-hour mark inside the theater.
According to his program notes, Taplin wishes to do the entire epic in an evening, but the sense of this very full four-hour (with two generous intermissions) performance is that that would be folly.
(There is no intermission during the nearly two-hour play.) The clothes are roughly 20th century, with blasts of rock music erupting between scenes.
The program's two main drawbacks were taped music and no intermission, despite a two-hour running time.
But, at the gala on Sunday, the younger man was fully engaged from early on in an evening that, including intermission, hit the five-hour mark.
More than 40 songs were packed into the three-hour concert, broken up by an intermission.
What's more, he has done it with remarkable clarity and meaning, resulting in a two-part film with a combined four-hour running time presented with an intermission after about 2 1/2 hours.
