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richard griffiths, the man that plays mr.dursley in the harry potter movies, played the main character in the play - the psychiatrist that has alan (daniel radcliffe) as a patient. richard was truly remarkable -  he had the audience completely under his spell as soon as he walked on stage. his delivery was excellent - i found myself laughing through out the entire show, which was a surprise for me because it is also a very serious story. both will and i were also surprised to see kate mulgrew in the show, playing the court magistrate that takes pity on alan. i knew i recognized her from somewhere and will said i probably knew her from star trek voyager.

ok, so lets talk about daniel! first off, he is short - like really short! i really think he can't be much taller then me and i am 5'3. secondly - he is a fucking AWESOME actor! i know that harry potter is not the most challenging role in the world but the character of alan definitley is not an easy role to handle. he had to convince the audience that he was insane but also play it in a way so that we would sympathize with his character. he really had some tough scenes to act out and he was so impressive to me - i'm not even saying this because i'm a fan-girl, he REALLY was amazing! he had moments where he was supposed to make the audience laugh (he did!) and also moments where he was crying and screaming and being really emotional.

...and then there was the moment when he took ALL OF HIS CLOTHES OFF!!!!!! that was the very last scene of the play so everything was leading up to it. when he took his clothes off, i could not even breathe!

***i should also mention at this point that i brought some binoculars to the show. i was using them all throughout the play to get a better view of the actors. and i am dead serious on this - about midway through the first act, i SWEAR richard griffiths looked RIGHT AT ME and gave me the evil eye for using binoculars. it was either the evil eye or total bewilderment that someone in the fifth row would even need binoculars. i figured if anyone made a big fuss over it, i would just tell them that i'm vision impaired or something.

so yeah, i totally busted the binoculars out for the naked scene of course! i zoomed in - WAAAAY in! i mean, i'm sure you all have probably seen the pictures floating around the internet of naked daniel so this will come as no surprise but his peen was....small! very small! but its been my experience with penises that they are not always what they appear! he had relatively normal sized balls so i have a feeling that if he was naked with ME somewhere, and not in front of an audience, then his penis would be a fairly normal size. and i have to point out that daniel has the most beautiful blue eyes i have ever seen - they are a much lighter blue in person (i kept staring into his eyes through the binoculars...like a total creepster haha!).

***i should also mention that about eight hours after we saw the show, when were lounging in our hotel room - it suddenly occurred to both will and i that maybe it was a leeeeeeeetle inappropriate to bring binoculars to the show. we both started laughing hysterically at the absurdity of it all! but hey, even if richard griffiths DID give me the stink eye - i would STILL do it again!

during the curtain call, some of the audience stood up to applaud daniel and richard. i was hooting and hollering and clapping with my hands over my head. as daniel went to exit the stage, i SWEAR TO YOU that he looked at me - i really am convinced that he did! i thought it might have been wishful thinking on my part but will told me that he DID look at me because everyone else had sat back down in their seats and i was the only one still standing and applauding! so yes - harry potter looked at me!!!! hopefully he didn't notice the binoculars hanging around my neck...