![]() ‘Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune’: Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon’s Chemistry Burns Up Broadway Our audience sat watching McDonald, a six-time Tony Award winner, in engrossed, outraged, moved silence. Yet her determination to speak is the battering ram through all she has endured. McDonald animates Suzanne’s voice with flickers of upset, fury, the scars and knowledge of harsh injustice, grief, cruelty, and prejudice. We hear the pained grit in her voice, as she digs through layers of tragedy and injustice. Suzanne’s voice quivers with fury alongside a determined strength, as she reveals how her younger self was horribly violated. McDonald’s truly mesmerizing performance holds so much emotion, so many cadences, and is also a barely suppressed scream. The art is by Mike Ploog.For the 75-minute duration of Adrienne Kennedy’s stunning play Ohio State Murders (James Earl Jones Theatre, booking to Feb 12, 2023), Suzanne Hamilton’s ( Audra McDonald) voice is its own story even as it tells a story. These storyboards are for the scenes where Seymour chops up the dead body of Orin. Orin was shown to be somewhat like a stereotypical greaser in appearance wearing leather and driving a motorcycle who acts more like Elvis. Luce, Skip Snip, and Patrick Martin.)" Appearance (The actor who plays him also plays A Voice not unlike God's, Wino #2, Customer, Radio Announcer, Mr. Think instead of an egotistical pretty-boy- all got up like a greaser but thinking like an insurance salesman and talking like a radio announcer. He is not, however, a leftover from the movie version of Grease. "A tall, dark, handsome dentist with a black leather jacket and sadistic tendencies. The original script offers a character description of Orin as follows: He may also have been somewhat narcissistic as he demanded Audrey call him "Doctor". He loved making others feel pain and misery. Are you satisfied' I laughed myself to." "Death?".Īs aforementioned he was abusive and sadistic. The plot of Orin is mainly the same in the musical, however in his death song 'Now (It's Just The Gas)' his last words are "Are you dumb or hard of hearing? Or relieved my end is nearing. It's what you did to her." "Her who!?.oh, her." After his death Seymour chopped him up with an axe and fed him to Audrey II. ![]() Orin died with the lines: "What did I ever do to you?!" "Nothing. Seymour, who couldn't bring himself to shoot Orin, watched as Orin died in front of him. After a while he wanted to take off the mask but realized it was broken, and he began to asphyxiate. He then put on a gas mask that allowed him to take in large amounts of nitrous oxide. He called in Seymour who had brought a revolver to kill him, and decided that he "really wanted to enjoy this". This caused Orin to become greatly angry due to the fact he wasn't able to inflict either fear or pain. Unfortunately for Seymour, Orin has just finished dealing with a patient that actually enjoyed pain. Seymour then ventures to Orin's dentist office. This causes Seymour to decide that he is the right person to be Audrey II's first victim. Later during the song "Feed Me (Git It)" Seymour watches as he slaps Audrey after she fell off his motorcycle. ![]() He first crosses paths with our characters when he arrives to take Audrey on a date and meets Seymour to whom he offers a free root canal. He is first seen during the song "Dentist!", in which he sings of how his love of inflicting pain has made him a successful dentist. Mushnik disapproves of Audrey dating him. This scene reveals that Orin is abusive, and that Mr. Orin was first mentioned in the first scene when Audrey comes into work at Mushnik's Flower Shop with a black eye.
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