Starmites was painful enough the first time around. The only reason it was nominated was that there were so few musicals that year.. Next your going to tell me they are bringing back Bring Back Birdie.
Alas since the playwright couldn't decide what the play was about and Roundabout gave her the go ahead without a fully developed play, it was an uninteresting play.
While I'm not clairvoyant, I think Andy needs to wait for material that is worthy of his talents. Alas, Pretty Woman isn't it.
I do like Andy Karl.. He is still waiting for the right vehicle. On the 20th Century could/should have happenned for him. He was great in Rocky but the material was substandard.
It needs to be the right mix of wonderful material and perfect performance.
That being said.. .anything can happen. I mean Elizabeth Tayl
There indeed were sound problems in the mezzanine. We sat in the first row mezzanine and I had trouble hearing everyone except Paxton Whitehead. We moved to the orchestra at intermission and the sound problem was solved.
While I do like Juliet Prowse, I did not like her in Irma La Douce which I saw at the Westbury Music Fair. The book just doesn't work. Also saw Irma La Douce at Encores with Rob Mclure and that didn't work either. Not sure if it was Prowse or the material. The cd and the score is to die for... amazing but that book. Ouch
In spite of great performances across the board from Matthew Saldivar, Paxton Whitehead, Jason Butler Hamer. Janet McTeer and a beautiful set, the play just didn't ignite. The play seemed unfocused and in need of rewrites and was floundering to find out what it was trying to say. It seemed like a bunch of ideas about Hamlet and Bernhardt and Rostand and Cyrano that never gelled together. I f
This show was very well intentioned but written by a committee of five writers and it shows. It's disjointed and all over the place. It was one part bad Borscht Belt, one part Bent, one part Harvey Milk, one part Lesbian Rights , one part I Do I Do. It had everything but the kitchen sink It was so politcally correct and preachy that I wanted to scream. The part of the wife was so terribly stereotypically Jewish that I cringed every time she was on th
Lewis J Stadlen played Horace at the Wick Theatre. He was so good, that the show should have been called Hello Horace. He stole the show. Great that he is doing the tour.
The reason we have a wealth of commodity musical is shear economics as well as the loss of the solo producer with a vision.
Gone are the days of the Hal Princes, The David Merricks, Feuer and Martin, The Saint-Subbers. -- the single headed producer (sometimes a team) who got the material, added a composer and lyricist combined them with a book writer and a director went out of town and honed the musical. That formula lead to the brilliance of Fiddler, Hello Dolly, Mame, Guys and D
Three Tall Women is thought provoking intelligent theatre.
It may take some concentration and work to listen and experience it but if you do my what a pay off .
Glenda Jackson gives one of the most riveting performances I've ever seen on stage. The other two women are wonderful too. The play is quite insightful and honest about life.
I do think that you have to have a maturity to you (maybe be over 40) to really get 3 Tall Woman as it about a wo
