How it takes four people to create such a list of unlistenable songs is a head-scratcher. Though performed with a modicum of spirit by Dinklage, Jones, Jenner, Ritchie Coster as the villainous De Guiche, and others doing their hampered utmost, the piece is as flat as last night’s champagne. Unfortunately, very little of that registers in this misguided enterprise.
What makes the play so endlessly tragic is how the subterfuge redounds to the undoing of the three participants. (Notice how neatly, in English, the word “swordplay” contains the word “wordplay.”) The idea is to position the young soldier for wooing, winning and marrying the lovely Roxanne, whom Cyrano really wants for himself but believes he can never have. Against his better judgment, he agrees to write seductive letters for an inspiration-less young friend, Christian (Blake Jenner). They would be in awed recognition of how thoroughly Schmidt, Dessner, Dessner, Berninger, and Besser, while futzing with the story, came up with nothing at all genuinely entertaining.įor those who don’t know or need to be reminded, Rostand tells the tale of a man possessing an abnormally long snout and a talent for both wordplay and swordplay.
The negative invocations would be in response to how short of the mark this Cyrano is.
These “oh, wows!” wouldn’t, however, be exclaimed in a positive way. I kid you not, but actually, several “oh, wows!” could apply to Cyrano, with Peter Dinklage, our beloved Tyrion Lannister of Games of Thrones, in the title role and with a score by composers Aaron Dessner and Pryce Dessner and lyricists Matt Berninger and Carin Besser. The 17th-century mademoiselle arrives on a stage just before a grand-scale drama is about to begin, looks around at the hustle-bustle and says, “Oh, wow!” The first words in Erica Schmidt’s musicalized version of Edmond Rostand’s magnificent Cyrano de Bergerac (1897)-here called simply Cyrano-are spoken by Roxanne (Jasmine Cephas Jones). In 1902, Edmond became the youngest writer to be elected into the Académie française before bowing out with another famous play called Chantecler eight years later.Įventually, he passed away in 1918 at the age of 50 due to the Spanish Flu pandemic, although the playwright still boasted two pieces of unfinished work one play which was performed posthumously in 1922.Įdmond had a wife, Rosemonde-Étienette Gérard , who was also a poet and playwright, along with two sons.Peter Dinklage, Blake Jenner in Cyrano. Photo By Star Tribune Photos by Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images
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