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Whenever we do one of these, it is to review one of something in this particular episode
Is no exception
We are here today to review a stage production called All the Way
Now playing in two different places
Yeah
Here in Dallas where we record our show
And in Houston at the same time
Of course, I have this whole thing
Yes
We have to thank Katherine Mason
Everybody at the Wiley
And also the Dallas Theatre Center for Magnus to this thing
Absolutely
We love those people over there
Thank you so much
God of some great seats for this particular performance
I can play
She's so good
Thank you so much Katherine
All the way
Written by Robert Shinken
I hope I'm even in the ballpark on that
Close enough
Here's what you need to know
November 22nd, 1963
America changed forever
And so to the world
And that is where this particular production begins
As LBJ is sworn into office
After the assassination of John F Kennedy
It takes you through the next year of his life
He's leading up to the elections in 1964
As he deals with his own legacy
But more importantly, deals with the civil rights movement
We're going to say this up front
Normally at the Wiley you would see a production
That might run an hour and a half
This is a two and a half hour production
Plus a 15 minute intermission
So be prepared for that going and going in
For two and a half hours
For me
Welcome internet
Let's go all the way
You're welcome
For me this didn't seem like two and a half hours
It starts out kind of slow
But once it starts moving
It moves very quickly
Don't worry I was your film case
I agree with you on that
We're exactly on that
But I still thought it was long
I could tell it was long
You knew it was long
Okay, Chad
I was getting a little bit of fatigue
Three
Yeah, but you know
Just just
Run after the animation
It's like this chair was really starting to hurt my back
I could tell I've been sitting there for a long
Because I didn't get up I just kind of sat there
And then probably a mistake
Don't worry
I thought the pacing was good
I like what it was
And all that stuff in the plot in the help
Float but it was long
I was very intrigued by the story
As it progressed
Because the way they staged this thing
It was very very interesting
Which I agree
There's not a lot of set movement
The only thing that would be moved or chairs
And there's like there is a backdrop
That changes rarely
But it does and then you've got a bunch of pillars
In front of that and in front of that
You have the desk in the oval office
And then kind of a table with
It's kind of a small meeting area
You call it that serves different purposes
At different times for the production
The transitions I thought were really good
I don't forget about the TV though
There was a TV over on stage right
That would show certain things
Yeah stage right
It's how you when you face the audience
Okay
On your right Chad
You're at the theater background
I believe that would be staged left
Okay so it wasn't staged like that
I always get the audience to spacing at a stage
So that's what you call it
That's how you know the difference
Okay I don't see the way around
Look at me
Not knowing stuff
Oh
Who would have thought
But
The transitions I thought were well done
Because we had was really moving
Were the chairs
But it really changed the dynamic
Of the scene depending on who was there
When you feel you're going from location
Location even though they didn't use that whole part of the stage
Like you're in an oval office
She knows the oval
Right
But then when they go to like a meeting
Or something like that
In your mind you take out that back desk
You take out that TV
And you're just in that small area with the table
Which I really enjoyed
So going from location location was done
Great with minimal props or anything else
And I thought the way they they worked
In how telephone conversations were done
Oh yeah
As LBJ is on the phone
He's the only one that has the full phone
Everybody else just kind of uses the receiver as they walk in
Where
You get the impression that he feels like he's talking to that person
And they're in the room
And that's kind of the dynamic
But you know they're on the phone
So they're nowhere near each other
I really like that dynamic
Yeah
Because they almost got face to face
Oh yeah they're making eye contact
While they're having that phone
I really really dug that
Yeah
It was really really dug that
Because the first one I'm like
Is he supposed to do that
And then as he kept doing
I'm like okay
So that's how this is supposed to be done
Okay
LBJ played by Brandon Potter
And here's my thing with this
I don't know that he really favored LBJ
But the performance was so good
I didn't care
You don't I mean
You have it
There's a great like historical quotes
They're like right
Which I knew YouTube
You and I talked about during the day
About the pants
Fitting
Which is now came out famously
Yeah
Yes, yes
But we're for word
One thing which I really enjoyed though
Going into this was
If you're in my written review at www.clabasplacas.com
That is our website
I put on there how they had two
Different scenes going sometimes
Because there was an issue with the civil rights
People that died
And they were doing that within real time
In the back you see them pulling out the bodies
And they called the White House
They found the bodies
Yeah
Yeah, they were kind of sure you what was going on
In Mississippi and the background
Or Alabama
Rather than about the cause
As a Mississippi
But how the columns
They're in the back
The columns
But how you can see two different things going on at the same time
I really enjoyed that
I really enjoyed that
I did as well
I thought
And one didn't really take away from the
Oh no
They both broke it very well
But again, I thought potters
Performance was phenomenal
Oh yeah
Even though he really didn't
Favorite LBJ to me
His charisma and his
His deliverance
Delivery
Was strong
It was so strong
It made me
More invested
You think he was too
Brash in the character
No, I'm just saying physically
There wasn't a favor there
For me
He's the one thing
He's one of it though
Really?
Yeah, because it's just
He's an incredibly capable actor
We've seen this guy before
And I just
I think that the youth
His youth kind of took away
From him selling the role to me
See, I'm totally opposite of you
Yeah, I got you looking
He disappeared in it
And it made the performance
Was so good
Your right
There is a youth factor there
That was a little weird
But his performance
Was so good
It kind of removed it for me
Also
Playing Dr. Martin Luther King
Junior Sean Hamilton
Now you talk about killing
Wow
Good Lord
I mean
Whatever he's even meeting
With his staff
All of those actors
Were amazing
There was a beautiful
Organic chemistry there
And even
You know, as as Hubert Humphrey
And Don, you're going to have to help
But played by Shambly Ferguson
Yeah, his interactions
With Martin Luther King
Were so
Like I totally bought it
Because there was that level of
And there was that level of animosity
But respect at the same time
Like Dr. King knew that Hubert Humphrey
Was doing everything he could
But he didn't think he was doing enough still
And Humphrey is like, look, I'm doing everything I can
You've got to help me out here
And King's got the whole know
You need to do what we want you to do
I thought their chemistry on stage
Was really really good
And something that I thought could
Was going to get buried a little bit
Was Sean Hamilton who plays
Reverend Martin Luther King
Junior was sharing the stage with Hassan Alameen
We've seen multiple productions at the while
And he had just played Martin Luther King
In the mountain top
Just months before this
Barely
You know, it's still fresh in everybody's memory
And that had to be kind of intimidating
For Sean Hamilton to take that role
And share the stage with Hassan Alameen
After playing it so
Elequently
Because I mean, just the right
It was ridiculous on how great he was
Um
And he was able to
Forty's own path
In playing that
And a very iconic role that people had been
Had under a
Had under a magnifying glass
Especially ever since
Selma was released
Also a fan of Leah Spillman playing Lady Bird
Did she play Lady Bird?
Yeah, she did.
Yeah, she did.
The thing when you when you look at the castle scene here
This is a very small cast
And you have everybody
Almost everybody
Outside of Brandon Potter
Playing multiple roles
And what really impressed me there was
How they were able to play multiple roles
And separate the roles
Where if you're not really really really paying attention
You don't realize it's the same actor
Yes, right into the costume
I make up the apartment
Yeah, for making that work
And I like how the the
The costume was
Era of specific
I mean the clothes they wore during this production
Were what they wore back then
Seventeen people in the whole cast
And there's probably about 50 characters
Yeah, my two leading
Non-leading role shout outs
Which I put in my view
Goes to one
Guy played Humphrey's
Ferguson
Yeah, but also who played his top eight
Walter Jenkins
Stephen Michael Walters
Because this is
Manorism of getting called and being
Just degraded by Johnson during the whole play
Yes, he ripped on him
So that was yeah that he played a really great role
Kind of felt bad for the
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, you kind of felt bad for anybody
That had to cross paths with Johnson
And that was in that first year
You know
Frightened in the show
The Justin Timberlake of our show
Charlotte Parker
LBJ is one of her least favorite
Presidents and she is a history buff
Yes, she is
And that's saying something
Come from the native text and
Talk about a native text and president
And it comes across that way
You
Potter really plays LBJ
I don't think he plays him in a negative
I think he plays him real
And then you want to talk about the technology
That works itself into this thing
Four of the pillars are used
To kind of help you keep the timeline
Straight because they have projectors
All over the over the
The theater that project
You know even for the people sitting on the sides
They have projectors at an angle
So they can see what the people in the center
See as well
Because at first I thought
Wow that projectors off center
I'm like oh wait no
There's people up there that you see this
There's my question
Have all the roles
The one I was missing which I didn't see
All right, I don't remember
Which kind of surprise me was property
They I think they kept bought that they mentioned
Bobby a lot
But you never see a month
But I don't know that you really
Needed Bobby because Bobby would Bobby's impact would come later
But still at that time
I mean if you really look at what happened
It is especially what the day Kennedy was assassinated
He was trying to figure out ways where he became
By the presidents to Johnson
And make no mistake
But that takes place
It starts immediately on the plane
After in the aftermath of doubt
You're here with a gunshot
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
But I think
But she was reference to like she hates my gut
Bobby hates my gut
Yeah
I think every Kennedy hates my gut
I think the reference is made
We're enough to not you
I didn't do that
I still think it was should have had a minor role
Him in there
Because they did you know talk a few times
They weren't touched a lot
Even during this
During this time period
Well then it kind of starts becoming a different story
Yeah
And I also think
There
There was a piece of this
I felt that was unnecessary
When we talk about
Dr. King's personal life
I know where you're going with this
And I don't know if you don't know
I'm not going to ruin it for you
But there's a part of his personal life
That they bring in to play that
I had had this story
Continue to another six months
I think that would have come
That would have been more aproposed
Deal with
Are you talking about the thing?
Yeah
Yeah
It comes to fruition
Right at the end
Yeah
Why did we go here?
But it sets it up through the whole thing
And to stop the story
At election day
There's no real payoff
Right there's no payoff
Again
If you were told this story
Over six more months
Then you could have dealt with that
It's just not going to happen
The only thing it really does
is give you
The motivation
Of Jagger Hoover
Which I thought he was really good too
Play by Kieran
Finally
Who also played Senator Bird
There's a couple of references in there
To Hoover
Very, very veiled
Thinly veiled
But if you don't know what's going on
You really don't know
Not really thinly
Talk about how do you know
Question is yes
Okay
But overall
I really thought that was funny
That was funny
That was that
Overall
I thought this was really really strong production
And coming up in May
HBO is going to do a film of this play
starring Bryan Cranston
Who's been doing this on Broadway
And has one Tony's for it
And playing Dr. King is going to be one Anthony Mackie
Which I can't wait to see
It's got a phenomenal kick
It's got a huge cast on it
So it tells you that there is weight behind this production
And the fact that it's playing both
Here and in Houston
I believe that the alley theater
Isn't that worth playing in Houston?
I've got my press kit right here
Do, do, do, do, do, do
I just, I just had an I lost it
Yeah, the alley theater
So, and right now
They even extended the run in Dallas
An extra week into April 3rd
Really?
Yes
And now it's that when we got there that night
Is there anything else we need to go over
Before we hit the final analysis
It's not a musical
So we don't have to talk about the music
No
All right
Let's talk about the final analysis
The way we do the final analysis on this show
We don't give you thumbs up thumbs down
We don't give you numbers
We don't give you letter grades
We don't give you stars
Our audience whom we affectionately refer to as the empire
They want us to go deeper
So we will
I'm going to ask these gentlemen two questions
Question number one
Would you see this film again?
Answer is no
Production
I'm so used to saying film
But this stage production
If the answer is no, then we're done here
If the answer is yes
Then the follow question is
Where do you want to sit to see it again?
The widely theater is not a huge theater
But there's enough of a difference in the
Seating that you can differentiate
So don't let's start with you
Would you see this again?
Oh yeah
Where do you want to sit?
Well we had incredible seats there
But I would want a different angle
Okay
I would want to sit on the second level
On the left
So you're looking like down at the desk
I'll try to hit
I think that would be great
The table in
But we had cripple seats
I'm not going to lose
Yeah
But I think it'd be kind of a good angle
Be up a little bit
And then be able to look and down
Straight the table and the desk
Chad
I see this again
Yeah I would
I want to sit a little bit higher myself
Because that entire scene
Where LBJ is kind of like
I don't know if I want to do this anymore
He's getting ready for bed
He's got a mic close on
I could not see a thing
I think it's because where you were
Yeah
You were on the right side
We were on the left side
We could see pretty much all that
I couldn't see anything
I would see her back
And that was it
I would definitely see this again
I would recommend it
Sit anywhere you can
Yeah
This is one of those productions
But if I had that
I would still recommend it
Yeah
And I think it's culturally significant to see it in this town
Absolutely
I mean it's got direct ties into it
So
Especially in an election year
Yeah
Exactly you know
And there are some parallels there
They kind of get thrown out there
Okay Roy
Wrap up again
We have to think Catherine
And everybody at the Wiley
So good
Yeah
Thank you so much for the advice
And if you see me on social media
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It is all the way
Currently playing at the Wiley Theatre
And Dallas and the Alley Theatre
In Houston the Dallas run
Through April 3rd
I'm not sure about the run
The Alley Theatre
But check it out for tickets
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