Wait Until Dark

Original Post Date: October 25, 2006

Have I mentioned that it's really hard to review shows that I'm "related" to? Well, it is. My sister designed and built the set for "Wait Until Dark" for the Greeley Community Theatre Troupe. She was also the Stage Manager. I had read the script for the show a couple months ago. I was thinking of auditioning for the role of Suzy, but ultimately decided to pass.

The show was very good! It's really scary in a suspenseful way. I'd kind of like to see the movie now, because it stars Audrey Hepburn as Suzy. If you're not familiar with the story, Suzy is a blind woman and some bad guys try to trick into giving them this doll that her husband brought home from Canada. It has drugs in it, but Suzy and Sam don't know that. In fact, they lost the doll. The bad guys think they can get away with tricking Suzy, since she's a "helpless" blind woman. Well, she's not so helpless as they think. Especially when she figures out what's going on and turns off all the lights so they are on an equal playing field. Well, not so equal really. It's a great show!

One character didn't impress me at first. Roat, the leader of the bad guys. When he first came, I didn't like his characterization at all. It seemed...well...phony. And when you're watching community theatre, phony doesn't always come off well. Well...when he came back posing as an old man, I thought "Wow, he's better than I thought." Then he came back a few minutes later posing as the old man's son. Again...better than I thought. When he returns later, after killing the other bad guys, he's a total psycho. He played that part REALLY well. I was super, super impressed then!!! It takes a good actor to play a convincing psycho.

The show was great! The set was awesome.