Elegance101 said: "It’s not Hadestown that we were thinking would take CITS. If Hillary and Clinton was betting on getting CITS for the spring, clearly OOTI is putting up a tough fight."
I know a lot of people were saying North Country would take the Kerr, but I could def see Hillary and Clinton going there instead. Roth is nothing if not political, and that play seemingly fits him to a T.
Saw this today and thoroughly enjoyed it- all three actors were fantastic (especially liked Radcliffe's traffic monologue, though they each had great one liners). The writing isn't Tony-worthy, but raises thought-provoking issues in the fake news era. The ending seemed a little abrupt in the moment, but as I keep thinking it makes more sense and I get the effect the authors were going for.
I doubt this'll be remembered at awards time (if only because of its early slot
My main problem was that Rebeck cheated by quoting long sections of Hamlet and Cyrano to pad out the running time. McTeer had some great one-liners, but the story was very thin with little resolution.
Another of the show's bright spots was sarcastic critic Paxton Whitehead- but according to Playbill he's departed the show for health reasons (replaced by understudy Tony Carlin). Too bad, hope he recovers soon BERNHARDT/HAMLET Previews Sep 3
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wonkit said: "I seem to have this problem with all of Rebeck's work: she has ideas but is not good at dramatizing them. There should be a competition to see if anyone can come up with a good log line for any of her work, because I have been lost and confused through most of it. But I will go see this for McTeer, with a good discount.
Seminar: "Snape as an English teacher"
The Understudy: "Jeremy Piven does Kafka" (though the mercury pois
And most recently, I saw Tony Roach as Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady yesterday and he was amazing, I liked him better than Harry on the cast recording. Love Bart's updated ending too
Just watched the Facebook Live, so for anyone interested:
Richard H. Blake thanked the cast, crew and creative team. Then he introduced "the man whose story we get to tell every night," Chazz Palminteri.
CP thanked Menken, Slater, De Niro, Zaks and Trujillo (who was in the audience- none of the others were there). He said 50 years ago on the stoop he never thought this would happen. He dedicated the show to Sonny ("who never got to see me make someth
