AmateisGal
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I was a bigger oddball than you - I had virtually no interest in contemporary pop music AT ALL until I got to college. It was all light classical, old-time jazz, and show tunes.
But while the film of Amadeus is great, I was lucky enough to see the original Broadway production in 1980, with Ian McKellen as Salieri, Tim Curry as Mozart, and Jane Seymour as Constanze. The opening remains, to this day, the greatest single feat of stage acting and stagecraft I've ever seen. Unlike the film, where as he starts reminiscing, old Salieri just cuts to young Salieri... In the play, he slowly rises from his wheelchair, the lighting changes (changing his makeup), his posture and bearing changes to that of a younger man, his voice becomes stronger/younger, the blanket falls away - and he's young Salieri! This was my introduction to the brilliance of Ian McKellen - so I wasn't surprised when began showing up in big fantasy films two decades later, blowing everyone else off the screen!
Wow. That sounds like an amazing production!