As Laguna Playhouse puts on ‘Peril,' artistic director sees promise in its future
Hercule Poirot has taken center stage once more with this month's performances of 'Peril in the Alps.'
Director and playwright Steven Dietz has delivered a sequel to 'Murder on the Links,' which was staged at the venue two years ago.
It's the last week for fans of the eccentric mystery solver, played by Omri Schein, to catch him in action. The audience of 'Peril in the Alps,' which runs through Sunday, spends the bulk of the show trying to figure out how to catch a suspected guilty party who is always a few steps ahead.
David Ellenstein, who joined Laguna Playhouse as interim artistic director in September 2022 and had the interim tag removed in May 2023, has acknowledged the importance of giving the people what they want and doing it well.
That mandate then earns equity with the patrons to expose them to new things. Laguna Playhouse's upcoming season will take those chances, with two world premieres among its six-show slate. Those include a Paul Slade Smith comedy in 'Bedside Myself' (Oct. 29-Nov. 16) and more mystery in Matthew Salazar-Thompson's 'The Maltese Falcon' (April 15-May 3).
'It's always exciting to birth a play,' Ellenstein said. 'It's something where you're not just trying to do a play that exists the best you can, but you're actually creating something that's going to exist forever. The way that you do it for that first time is not only completely invented by the company, but then as the play gets published, that's the production that is used to create the printed script. It's been, basically, initially stamped by that first production, and being part of those is always very exciting.'
The curtain goes up on the 2025-26 season with 'A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder' (Sept. 17 to Oct. 5). 'Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground,' featuring Tony Award winner John Rubinstein, runs from Jan. 14 to Feb. 1. 'Laughter on the 23rd Floor' (March 4 to 22) and 'Red' (June 10 to 28) round out the coming season's lineup.
Ellenstein, who also has a history with Laguna Playhouse as an actor, is excited about the recent audience response. He said season ticket sales for next season are already in line with this year's, and the venue has opened its mezzanine level to accommodate demand on several occasions.
'My vision is to make it a thriving, full theater again, where the performances are packed and there's buzz about everyone, and we are moving in that direction,' said Ellenstein, who has also served as the artistic director of North Coast Repertory Theatre in Solana Beach since 2003.
'Since I've been [at Laguna Playhouse], we have increased the attendance,' he continued. 'We are re-staffing up because there were some staffing positions that needed to get refilled, and it's starting to happen there. I'm actually encouraged and optimistic about the future there and it coming back to its full glory.'
An indication of that interest were the dozens of attendees who stayed behind to participate in a talkback with the cast following a performance last Friday evening.
Discussion included line memorization, the actors' union status, evolving set changes due to stage size, plus the number of behind-the-scenes staff contributing to the six-actor play that features 29 characters.
Valerie Larsen, who plays Captain Hastings, was asked about being cast in a male role.
'One thing that [Dietz] said to me when we were figuring things out, his mentality around that kind of thing is most classic literature characters are male,' Larsen said. 'The way he said it was, 'I think that everyone should have an opportunity to play the great characters.''
Schein's credits include writing the lyrics for 'The Remarkable Mister Holmes,' which was put on by Laguna Playhouse in March. He also played Poirot in 'Murder on the Links,' and describes the experience as 'intimidating' because of the public's familiarity with the character.
'So many people know [Poirot] because of the books, because of the TV show,' Schein said. 'Obviously, both 'Murder on the Links' and 'Peril in the Alps' are written by the same playwright and were directed by the same person, Steven Dietz.
''Murder on the Links' was actually based on the Agatha Christie novel, and he enjoyed the character so much that he wanted to live with the character somewhat. That's why he decided to write the sequel, 'Peril in the Alps.' It's interesting. I think this one is more comedic. Both were comic takes on the Hercule Poirot stories, but this one, I think, is more comical than the last one. We're getting more laughs, in general.'
Gabbie Adner, Brian Mackey, Amanda Sitton and Christopher M. Williams team up to tackle the balance of the characters.
'Honky Tonk Angels' (July 30 to Aug. 17) will conclude the current season. There will also be a holiday special musical, 'A Snow White Christmas,' from Dec. 6 to 28.
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So the goal was to keep it most of it in camera. I feel like we really kind of dipped into their methodology, pretty one-to-one.' At the end of the day, his job was to capture the archaic, yet charming, simplicity of '40s-era movie magic. The most notable instance of that philosophy can be found in the scene where Jake and Lena are framed against a painted backdrop (see below) in a bombed-out stairwell. 'It just really captured what that era was all about. That was something I came up with. It was just romantic and told a lot of the story.' Says Cosgrove: 'Phil Messina's sets were brilliant … and all of this was on a budget of $30 million, which sounds like a lot, but for a film shot in Los Angeles with movie stars on a studio backlot, that's pretty fantastic." 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'So we got really lucky, because studios may hang on to the movie that material was used in, but it's really rare for them to hang on to that kind of [raw] footage. And it's interesting. I think that first scene where Tobey picks him up at the airport and we go into the Jeep is a real inflection point for whoever's watching the movie. You either smile at it and go, 'Okay, I'm in! They're going for it!' Or you're like, 'This is weird. That's not real. This is weird.'' CATE BLANCHETT stars as Lena Brandt and GEORGE CLOONEY stars as Jake Geismer in Warner Bros. ... More Pictures' and Virtual Studios' dramatic thriller "The Good German," distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film also stars Tobey Maguire. PHOTOGRAPHS TO BE USED SOLELY FOR ADVERTISING, PROMOTION, PUBLICITY OR REVIEWS OF THIS SPECIFIC MOTION PICTURE AND TO REMAIN THE PROPERTY OF THE STUDIO. NOT FOR SALE OR REDISTRIBUTION. Given that the film was being made at Warner Bros., Soderbergh came up with the ingeniously meta idea of modeling the theatrical poster design after the iconic one WB had made for Casablanca over six decades before. 'It's the same studio, so I thought why not rip off your own material?' went his rhetorical thinking. 'It's hard to get a good poster these days. I thought that was really beautiful … I had convinced Warners that with critical support, we could build an audience for the film. But people [who saw it] weren't just angry at it — I think they were maybe confused by its intention.' The Good German hit theaters on December 15, 2006 to mainly negative reviews from critics, who saw the film as more of an exercise in style over substance when, ironically, Soderbergh was using the singular noir aesthetic as a clever way to get at the substance of the story. 'My sense is that a lot of the negative things that were said were really sticking to the surface of it and not realizing that the style was the Trojan horse to get in and talk about some really difficult aspects regarding human duality,' muses the director. 'It was just sort of written off as pastiche. It's not a pastiche, it's using that style and that grammar to get at its subject. Part of its subject, in addition to what the United States did in the aftermath of World War II to get Nazi scientists into the country, is also getting at our relationship to the movies — specifically our relationship to the movies from that period, which were restricted in terms of what stories they could tell and how they got to tell them. It would be another 20-plus years before filmmakers could make movies about what was actually happening in the world." Attanasio, meanwhile, chalks up the film's failure to a cognitive dissonance amongst the audience, who couldn't quite reconcile the cynical tone with the appearance of big movie stars. 'It creates a kind of a confusion about, 'What am I watching?'' he theorizes. 'And then the audience was changing, too. The audience in the decades that I've been doing this has become less curious. They don't want that kind of confusion, find it piquant, or it just annoys them. That's only gotten worse in the 20 years since then.' 'It's a very, very dark ending, but it's inevitable,' Soderbergh continues, referring to the film's inversion of Casablanca's optimistic conclusion. Rather than helping altruistic characters escape on a plane — à la Rick, Isla, and Laszlo — Jake unknowingly secures safe passage out of Germany for a Jewish woman who worked with the Gestapo to save her own life. Did he do the right thing or should he have let her be prosecuted for her crimes? The question and answer are less clear-cut than they might have been in the '40s. 'It has to end this way," the director affirms. "I think Cate's character, who's both a victim and a monster, was difficult for people to to grapple with. So I should only have been surprised at how hopeful I was about the movie and maybe I was kind of blinded by my happiness at having gotten almost everything I imagined onscreen.' Interestingly, The Good German was one of two black and white projects being produced by Section Eight in the mid-2000s, the other being Good Night, and Good Luck (recently adapted into a Broadway production starring Clooney). 'I think that if you would have asked anybody at that point which one would become part of the cultural conversation, and which one would have more of a limited impact, you would have reversed them," Cosgrove says. "I think we were all very surprised at the reaction of The Good German and pleasantly delighted with Good Night, and Good Luck.' Adds Messina: 'I give credit to the studios back then for actually trying stuff like that. I think we were probably in between some of the Ocean's movies. So at that point, Steven was kind of like, 'One for them, one for me.' It was just a different time and place — and I was glad to have been a part of it.' Theatrical posters for 'Casablanca' and 'The Good German' Despite the response and a lackluster box office performance (a mere $6 million worldwide against a $32 million budget), the film was recognized by the Academy at the 79th Oscars ceremony for Thomas Newman's original score, which emulated the swelling and romantic style of Max Steiner (Casablanca, Key Largo). The 15-time Oscar nominee, came aboard late in the process after Soderbergh showed a cut of the film to a colleague, who encouraged him to nix the original music, which had been 'written in the style of like '60s, Italian television," reveals the director. '[My friend] pretty much grabbed me by the lapels and said, 'That's fatal! You're asking a lot of the audience already, but to not have a score done in the idiom of that period, you're really shooting yourself in the foot.' He was right. [Thomas's score] really pulled all of the elements together in a way that the other score was kind of pulling those elements out of orbit. That's a tough call, to tell somebody that you're replacing the music, but it had to be done.' Despite containing all the necessary ingredients for cult status, The Good German has not received much positive reappraisal over the last two decades. 'This one has just been a third rail that people who write about films have just not taken up," Soderbergh laments. 'And that surprises me, because it's such a movie lovers movie.' 'My mother-in-law says that it's become a cult film, although I've yet to meet anybody in that cult," commiserates Cosgrove. "But maybe they're out there…' With all of that said, deferred support and appreciation has begun to trickle in with the passage of time. In April of this year, for instance, both IndieWire and Collider made compelling cases for why the film stands among Soderbergh's greatest achievements to date. Naturally, the movie's biggest fan has, is, and always will be, Soderbergh himself. 'There are very few films I've made where, at the end of it, I felt that I'd gotten what I saw in my head before we started,' the filmmaker concludes. 'Maybe that clouded my judgment a little bit. I wish we could hand out an old tube black and white television with every disc. That would be a fantastic way to see it.' The Good German The Good German The Good German The Good German The Good German The Good German is available to own on 4K UHD and Blu-ray
