China Doll 2015
Run Time:
Two hours and 10 minutes, with one intermission
Two hours and 10 minutes, with one intermission
Ages: 13+
Opened: December 4, 2015Closing: January 31, 2016
China Doll - 2015 - Broadway History , Info & More
Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (Broadway)
236 West 45th St. New York, NY
A two-character play about a billionaire, Mickey Ross, who has just bought a new airplane for his young fiancee as he prepares to go into semiretirement; the other character is Carson, Ross's assistant.
Written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony winner David Mamet, CHINA DOLL will star legendary actor Al Pacino.
Mr. Pacino will be joined on stage by Fran Kranz (You Can't Take It With You, Death of a Salesman, "Dollhouse"), under the direction of Tony Award-winner Pam MacKinnon (The Heidi Chronicles, Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Clybourne Park).
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Al Pacino Pilots A Nonstop To Nowhere In David Mamet’s ‘China Doll’ – Review
7 / 10
...China Doll is virtually a monologue, possibly with more lines than Richard III, a favorite role of Pacino's...Plays depending on phone conversations with unseen participants are almost always a bad idea, and China Doll is no exception. However, bad as it is (and worse still after the intermission), China Doll has one major asset, and that is the star's unrequited commitment. It may be a dopey play that keeps tripping over its MEGO-inducing minutiae, but Pacino delivers every line with relish, with mustard, onions, the works: The hand raised, thumb against forehead, while absorbing bad news. The flash of anger in a raised voice that inspired genuine fear. The hangdog gaze of eyes that have seen it all and more and can respond only with weariness.
‘China Doll’ review: Al Pacino works hard
7 / 10
Little wonder there were rumors that Al Pacino couldn't remember his lines in David Mamet's new 'China Doll'...The playwright has given Pacino, apparently one of his favorite actors, almost no story to build around his character and given him lines that pick over the same obvious plot points, mostly with the same barking emphasis, to nonexistent people supposedly on the other end of his phone's Bluetooth earpiece...Pacino is legendary for his obsessive work for years on the same handful of plays, including Mamet's 'American Buffalo.' It is always a kick to watch him wrestle with a character - and this one is a beast...With his unsettling gray bouffant, his lizard eyes and his wrinkled black power suit, he cuts a scary yet baleful figure in a penthouse as big and cold as an airplane hangar...He yells at Carson, wheedles and hollers and goes mock-humble on the phone. Every so often, Mamet gives him a wonderful line that sums up the dark side of humanity. More often, however, the writing is as lazy as Mickey calling someone 'more fun than a Swiss Army Knife.'
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What productions of China Doll have there been?
China Doll has had 1 productions including Broadway which opened in 2015.
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