#Girl From the North Country

[savagewildnerness]

I’ve never met Sam, but he did photobomb me once!

I wish I wasn’t such a shy, reserved person, as I adored Sam in this play, but it took ALL of my energy to get myself to get a photo with just the incredible Shirley Henderson (even though I’d seen the play probably 10-15 times at this point. I utterly ADORED it & everyone in it.) I am SO scared of being annoying! You do not understand how much it took for me to build myself up to get a photo & autograph from just the ONE human! Gosh, Shirley was insanely great in this play! Like you couldn’t take your eyes off her magnificence! And the emotion in how she sang: I can feel it just as strongly in my heart right now still.

Anyway, I was too scared & incapable of speaking to everyone/too afraid to be annoying to more than one human! So I didn’t get an autograph or photo with Sam or anyone else in the play.

However, I noticed that there is Sam, in the background here!! Teehee! He was SO un-Lestat back then! But the character he played in this play had a tragedy to him. As did all the characters in the play. It was such a yearning play. Sam played a young man who had so much potential (in life & love), yet squandered it till he was doomed to tragedy… and how realistic is that to reality! I feel (& am) that. Everyone tended towards satisfying, resonant, true, beautiful & sorrowful tragedy & there was never any other conclusion. Gosh, I ADORED it! And THE MUSIC! But music with all the resonance folk who are actors first can give it.

Honestly I would give ANYTHING to experience this play, especially incredible Shirley just one more time. It’s in my top 5 plays ever. It’s an awful photo of me, as even on my 15th watch of the play, I had spent the entire 2-3 hours sobbing! It was SO SAD! I cried just as much every single time I watched it.

Also, LOL - you know you’re short when Shirley Henderson crouches for a photo with you!!! Look at us, like wee gnomes, with normal human-sized Sam in the background! 😂😅😂🤣😭💀

#girl from the north country #sam reid #shirley henderson #Conor McPherson #interview with the vampire #lestat de lioncourt #anne rice #the vampire lestat #iwtv lestat #amc interview with the vampire

[greedandenby]

Just Sam being a little guy.

From the Girl from the North Country rehearsals back in 2017.

Source: the cursed bluebird hellsite

Also what exactly were you talking about here mister?

#LOOK AT HIM #samothy my beloved little pixel #sam reid #iwtv cast #interview with the vampire cast #girl from the north country #iwtv

[heyitsmelouiss]

Throw back to the time Sam spent on a play

#I was bored okay #sam reid #interview with the vampire #iwtv cast #girl from the north country

[alicebyheartt]

Why I love him

#alice by heart #colton ryan #broadway #dear evan hansen #alfred hallam #musical #girl from the north country #the girl from plainville #musical theatre #new york new york

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash “Girl from the North Country” (Take 1)—The Bootleg Series, Vol. 15: Travelin’ Thru [1967–1969].

#Bob Dylan #Johnny Cash #The Girl From The North Country #Girl From The North Country #Nashville Sessions #1969 #1960s #Audio #Bob Dylan Audio #Cash / Dylan #Nashville Skyline (1969) #The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963) #The Bootleg Series Vol. 15 #Travelin' Thru 1967 / 1969 #2019 #Autumn

[ladymatt]

Credit: AnnieVesper

#girl from the north country #sam reid #claudia jolly #Love his speaking/singing voice so much #Youtube

[fallimentiquotidiani]

If you're travelin' in the north country fair

Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline

Remember me to one who lives there

Oh she once was a true love of mine

See for me if her hair's hanging down

It curls and falls all down her breast

See for me that her hair's hanging down

That's the way I remember her best

If you go when the snowflakes falls

When the rivers freeze and summer ends

Please see for me if she's wearing a coat so warm

To keep her from the howlin' winds

If you're travelin' in the north country fair

Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline

Please say "hello" to the one who lives there

Oh she was once a true love of mine

If you're travelin' in the north country fair

Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline

Remember me to one who lives there

Oh she once was a true love of mine

A true love of mine

A true love of mine

True love of mine

A true love of mine

A true love of mine

She was once a true love of mine

#girl from the north country #bob dylan #johnny cash #nashville skyline #1969

[sorryfortheinconvenience]

I saw "girl form the north country" this weekend and cannot stop thinking about this absolute banger of a line

"I am being chased by the devil, and the devil's name is commerce" -The Reverend

#girl from the north country #broadway #bob dylan

[fyeah-olivia-colman]

Chlöe Bailey, Tosin Cole, Olivia Colman and Woody Harrelson are set to star in Girl From The North Country, adapted from the Tony Award-winning Broadway show of the same name inspired by the songs of Bob Dylan.

The New York Times described the Broadway play — which reimagines legendary Dylan songs, including “Forever Young,” “All Along The Watchtower,” “”Hurricane,” “Slow Train Coming,” “Make You Feel My Love” and “Like A Rolling Stone. — as “profoundly beautiful” and the Chicago Tribune called it “a Broadway revelation!.”

After seeing the play, Dylan said: “The play had me crying at the end. I can’t even say why. When the curtain came down, I was stunned. I really was.”

#Olivia Colman #Girl From The North Country #OColman

[blackinperiodfilms]

Chlöe Bailey, Tosin Cole, Olivia Colman and Woody Harrelson are set to star in Girl From the North Country, adapted from the Tony Award-winning Broadway show of the same name inspired by the songs of Bob Dylan.

Set in 1934 against the backdrop of Duluth, MN, during the Great Depression, the drama revolves around a group of wayward travelers whose lives intersect in a guesthouse filled with music, life and hope.

Things are spiraling out of control for proprietor Nick Laine (Harrelson). His wife Elizabeth (Colman) is suffering from dementia. The bank is foreclosing on their home. Their adopted daughter, Marianne (Bailey), has a closely guarded secret that no one can explain.

When escaped convict Joe Scott (Cole) seeks shelter at the guesthouse, a relationship develops between Marianne and Joe that will change everything for everyone forever in a timeless love story.

The movie adaptation is written and directed by Conor McPherson, the playwright behind the original Broadway musical.

#Girl From The North Country #Chlöe Bailey #Chloe Bailey #Tosin Cole #Olivia Colman #Woody Harrelson #musical adaptation #casting news #Black in Period Films

[savagewildnerness]

Incidentally, the photo I shared the other day, it is a Live Photo, so I share again so you can see me being blinky, Shirley saying “Okay” & Sam being noddy! 😂

I adored this play so much! I haven’t been to London now since February 2020 & I miss the days I sat in the theatre(s) for (many other plays &) this play as I saw it at both the Old Vic & the Noel Coward Theatre for hours, alone, immersed in the glorious world of this play!

Teehee. It’s so weird to me that Sam was literally a few metres away from me, but I was too scared to ask everyone for photos! Or anyone, beyond Shirley! I wish I had been braver now! But then again, I’m glad I didn’t annoy Sam & I guess I have a memento photo anyway! Here it is! It’s not only a photo even, LOL! It’s a video, essentially 😂.

The play was so exquisite though! I don’t think I could have coped to also know Sam would one day be Lestat on top of the exquisite glory that the play was. If you ever get the chance to see Shirley Henderson on stage, run as fast as you can at that! Sam wasn’t bad either! 😉😁😇 The while cast were glorious! But Shirley was transcendent! Just mesmerising, she was. And the emotion as she sang. I wish I could describe the emotional power. I’m crying now, because I can bring it back into my heart still now - how it felt. I mean, you can listen to the cast recording, but obviously it had more power in the context of the play. Why do time machines not exist? Anyway! Lucky me to have experienced it.

I’m actually very glad that at least I steeled myself enough to do this! I don’t know exactly how many times I saw the play (but I did see it enough that once at the Old Vic when I got a ticket on the day, the box office staff gave me the seat in the centre circle they usually save in case the Director wants to watch any performance, so the staff clearly knew I was there *again*!!! 😇 To give me the special seat… I think I only saw it twice at the Noel Coward Theatre though as it was more expensive then, but this particular photo was after the very final performance, which I was lucky to be at. They were dismantling the set & taking it out if the back of the theatre too.)

I did a tour of the Old Vic while it was on there too & so stood on the stage. In my humble opinion, The Old Vic is the most beautiful theatre in London & standing on the (massive!) stage, looking out at the auditorium it makes you desire to be there, performing. I felt similarly to how Lestat must have as a young boy, that world & its feeling so clear!

I’m not a big fan of musicals (though I love some, if I feel them!) but plays with music in are my absolute favourite. Because I love & feel music deeply & when you can be moved by music AND be moved by the incredible skill of actors (How do people act!? It’s a mystery to me! I find it awkward enough being even myself & like I don’t know how to be a real person!!) & it all combines, especially in such an aching, yearning play about the sorrowful tragedy of being alive & our sad, doomed lives. Oh, it’s so resonant and perfect!

I miss live theatre very much indeed!

Buuutttt…. TV vampires certainly are a fair substitute! They’ll do me, for now!!

Anyway, I thought I’d share this silly wee video!! 😂😅😇

#sam reid #interview with the vampire #anne rice #lestat de lioncourt #the vampire lestat #iwtv lestat #amc interview with the vampire #amc iwtv #girl from the north country #Conor McPherson

[lyricspoetrynstuff]

I found this song while watching Silver Linings Playbook(2012). I mean call me uncultured or whatever because I truly never knew of this Dylan-Cash rendition. The song has the typical 60s vibe but what stands out to me is the polar opposite voice texture of Dylan and Cash. They meld together to form this melodious cacophony that truly fits the vibe of the movie as well.

Song: Girl From the North Country

Artist: Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash

Genre: Folk

Released: May 27, 1963

#bob dylan #johnny cash #soundtrack #girl from the north country #silver linings playbook #music #movies #60s #duet #spotify #lyrics #folk rock #jennifer lawrence #bradley cooper

[selescope]

so sad there aren’t any girl from the north country tour cast bootlegs.. i need to show my friends what i saw

#i cant find any videos of the performance of rolling stone i witness #god #she stood on the table and like #with the mic stand? #christ #and duquesne whistle???? #RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE #musical shit #girl from the north country

[alicebyheartt]

!!

#alice by heart #colton ryan #broadway #dear evan hansen #alfred hallam #musical #girl from the north country #the girl from plainville #musical theatre #new york new york

[havendance]

Girl From the North Country Thoughts

You know, it was... Interesting.

And that's basically the same thing that everyone I talked to who saw it said

All I knew about coming in was that it was a Bob Dylan Jukebox musical

I'm not quite sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't that.

All the actors definitely put on a really good show. The guy playing Joe had a great voice and the actress playing Elizabeth put on a very striking performance

I also did quite like a lot of the musical arrangements of the songs.

Slow Train Coming was a standout there. I also liked the rendition of Hurricane mashed up with all along the watchtower

That being say, I wanted more music :( I'm a dylan fan. I wanted more than the abridged mashups.

More singing less talking

Like the preacher man? He only sang a little but he had a great voice. I would've liked to hear from him more.

Plot wise -- it was a show about a bunch of people in the great depression

Very vingetty

I get what they were going for but I'm not sure if I really liked how open and loose a lot of the character plots felt. I would've liked to be able to dig deeper into them.

I felt like the plot thread with Marianne's pregnancy especially felt unresolved and hanging. If you just kept it a secret the whole show that would've been one thing. But the combination of the buildup and the strangeness/unresolvedness of the answer we did get just left me wondering if I'd missed something.

Then it's the depression so you've got the bittersweet/sad end

I'd seen forever young was listed as one of the songs in the program as the ending grew closer I was like 'they're going to sing forever young and I'm going to cry' and then they did and I did.

Oh that was my other issue with the ending! I really thought they were building to Nick doing a murder suicide. Just the comments he made to his son. The presence of the gun (and like that got paid off in the scene with Elizabeth and preacher, but it also could've been reminding the audience that it existed). The comments the doctor made about how making the decision's the hard part.

I was dreading that and then it just didn't happen and I was glad that he didn't do the murder suicide but also

why did you make me think he would?

It feels kind of like it was an old ending that got changed to something slightly less grim.

But yeah. Wouldn't see it again. But it was definitely interesting to see once.

#girl from the north country #theater #carthago delenda est

[sonofcelluloid]

You can’t ever tell me my boy ain’t got the pipes to back it up. When Lestat’s rock star era comes around I’ll probably just pass away:)

#sam reid #bob dylan #girl from the north country #lestat de lioncourt #interview with the vampire #iwtv #theatre #2010s #tv #2020s #jams