He hosts a nightly radio show, and she mans the town switchboard. Two high school kids, Everett ( Jake Horowitz) and Fay ( Sierra McCormick), leave the game and walk across the deserted town to their nighttime jobs. Cheerleaders do cartwheels on the sidelines. The film opens at a high school basketball game. With "The Vast of Night," it really is about the how, not just the "what happens."
REVIEW NO NIGHT IS TOO LONG MOVIE MOVIE
How on earth Patterson made a movie about a UFO hovering over a small town in the late 1950s without falling back on every cliche in the book is the fun and wonder of "The Vast of Night." You already know the plot. What is out there in the vast of night? There's something in the sky. The line is whispered into an eerie nighttime silence, and the mood is one of awe, terror, excitement. Something about Patterson's approach-precise and inventive-makes a moment that could have been a cliche into something fresh, vivid, filled with the strangeness of what it would really be like. Tickets: $31-$172.50 at 80 and a testament to what director Andrew Patterson has pulled off in his micro-budget sci-fi indie "The Vast of Night" that when that line comes, it feels like it's the first time those words have ever been said, even though there's a line just like it in every movie of its kind.
It’s already looking a bit like 2018: no references here to gender fluidity or the fracturing of the American left, and the picture of the Indiana high schoolers is very pre-pandemic, even by the standards of a struggling small town.Īt least “The Prom” parodies its own myopia: this is a proudly liberal, do-say-gay show that celebrates a big kiss between two young lesbians as its climactic moment and just asks everyone to please love each other, stop taking everything so seriously and go with the flow of a humanistic beat you cannot and should not try to stop. That said, the characters of Barry and Dee Dee (Balan) are deliciously drawn, the score (”Dance With You,” “You Happened” “It’s Time to Dance”) is peppy as befits the theme, and there are very some funny, loving takedowns of Broadway culture, critics, publicists and all the self-adoring mishegoss. Although set in Indiana, the locale is just generic flyover country in the show’s storytelling, and the characters make enough sudden transformations that the 180-degree changes of heart become part of the comedy. I liked the original Broadway cast, thought the movie was miscast for the most part, and was happy to return again to the show’s live roots. The big personalities has a great straight man in Sinclair Mitchell, playing the high school principal who has to utter the immortal line “straight people like Broadway too!”
He’s just fabulous in this show, driving the action at a furious comic pace and landing every last gag. Like Betsy Morgan, currently appearing locally in “The King and I,” and his fellow “Prom” cast member Courtney Balan, Wetzel is one of those Broadway professionals widely admired by insiders and peers and yet not a star name. In fact, fans of this title (book and lyrics by Chad Beguelin, book by Bob Martin, music by Matthew Sklar) might want to show up just to see Patrick Wetzel, the warmhearted veteran Broadway talent playing the role of Barry Glickman, a role originated by Brooks Ashmanskas.
But when it comes to the human beings that really matter, this touring cast, which has battled along the road throughout the last months of the pandemic, show no diminishment whatsoever. The scenic elements are cut down from Broadway, alas, with scenery now rendered mostly as painted backdrops.
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