Three musketeers seattle rep

Doesn't anyone go out without their kids anymore? Are all the babysitters unemployed? Why does all Seattle theater including the rep have to be so damn family friendly? Clearly the script writer never read the Dumas book. It was a cute show and resembled the Disney version and I can't think of anything worse.

Well if everyone follows what Mr. Frizzelle has to say, he'll be out of a job, because everyone is at home watching tv. I believe I was at the same show and I remember hundreds of people having a pretty good time.

The Stranger. Comments 1 However, The Night Watcher, which is also at the Rep through the end of the month, is really great. Apart from adding the character of a tomboyish sister Sabine for D'Artagnan, and reducing the role of Constance to a glorified cameo part, Ludwig's condensation of the familiar story of intrigue set in and around the court of King Louis XIII is pretty much CliffsNotes Dumas, as D'Artagnan joins forces with the Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis against the wily Cardinal Richelieu.

Ludwig tosses in a fair deal of anachronistic contemporary language, but he might have been better off going the Mel Brooks route and just spoofing the hell out of the tale.

I would so like to say that the sword fights were at the very least rousing, but aside from one instance in which torches were also employed in the action, I felt little heat from the numerous displays staged by Fight Director Rick Sordelet. As for the titular trio, Hans Altwies' Athos is the most fully realized and commanding, respectably supported by Ryan Shams' rascally Aramis and Jeffrey Bender's rousing Porthos.

They are robust and well choreographed by fight director Rick Sordelet. Bender and Aramis Ryan Shams , a forgiving lot who will welcome him into their exclusive fraternity. His crush Constance Jennifer Sue Johnson all but disappears after their hot make-out scene.

Altwies is oddly coifed like an Allman Brother, but he rises above the slapstick fray to give cynical Athos an aura of bone-deep disillusionment.

And the villains are more defined as well, especially that hateful smoothie Richelieu.