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Richard Linklater - Merrily We Roll Along  Aug 29 2019, 03:59:41 PM

I'm waiting for the "just kidding" alarm to go off from Linklater....



Was Evan Hansen punished enough for his sin?  Aug 12 2019, 02:32:39 PM

"Pretty much every choice made in how to present the plot, is designed to make us empathize with Evan and to take focus off of the harm he caused." 

This.  A thousand times, THIS.



I respectfully disagree  Aug 7 2019, 09:41:15 AM

"How does one know when an actor isn’t “giving it their all” or is “phoning it in”? Maybe they were like that on opening night too, lol."

When one has seen a performer work wonders in other performances, and then seen that same performer delivering the laziest hackwork imaginable (I was sitting close enough to be able to see Nathan Lane actually scoping out the more than half-empty house at that appalling performance of THE FROGS), yeah, one can


Why are matinees less respected?  Aug 6 2019, 09:09:36 AM

I saw Nathan Lane at a matinee performance of THE FROGS, and swore never to see him at anything other than an evening performance after that.  One of the laziest most utterly energy free performances I've ever seen, he was too busy scoping out the empty seats to actually work up any interest in what he was supposed to be doing.  He was so bored with the proceedings he actually injured himself during the first act finale, and we got to see his understudy for the second act, who a

CATS Film Adaptation Thread  Jul 19 2019, 01:58:35 PM

The CATS themselves all have the icky fake vibe -- there's something very off about it all.  They look like the cute little creatures who've escaped from a government lab at the beginning of the horror movie, they've got this faintly sinister vibe and before you know it they've got an insatiable taste for human flesh and world domination.  I'd gladly scoop them all into a sack and club them to death.



It's A Wonderful Life - McCartney  Jul 18 2019, 09:14:53 AM

I just can't imagine a musical version of this material working very well.  At all.  And it would require a far more experienced musical theater composer than Paul McCartney to make it work.  Now if it was Dave Malloy, that'd be me setting up camp outside the box office.  

The questions begin -- will it be set in the U.S.?  Will it be the same post-war period?  And how will they shoe-horn in the inevitable gay subplot, probably with Bert a


It's A Wonderful Life - McCartney  Jul 18 2019, 08:57:32 AM

Strikes me as a very bad idea -- we'll see if it ever actually happens.  As with Sondheim's Bunuel musicals, just because it's announced doesn't mean we'll see it.



Hiddleston, Cox led BETRAYAL Transferring to Broadway  Jun 27 2019, 03:44:24 PM

Hiddleston's blazing firy adequacy as an actor will make this one of the most easily skippable productions to slither out of the West End in a long time.



What were your biggest theatrical disappointments of the season...  Jun 10 2019, 11:54:38 AM

Biggest disappointment -- the casting of the two young leads in HADESTOWN.  They had ZERO chemistry at the performance I attended.  I just couldn't imagine anybody, much less our spindly senstive Evan Hansen knockoff Orpheus, going into the underworld to rescue that dreary little Ophelia, played with such zero charisma but a big singing voice by whatshername.



MITB Tony's Reactions  Jun 10 2019, 11:51:06 AM

It was funny, but this kind of cutesy interruption only shaves time off the acceptance speeches of way too many winners.



OCTET at Signature Theatre  Jun 5 2019, 08:45:47 AM

Saw it last night, loved every minute.  Far from the easy "Technology Bad, People Good" message, Malloy seems to be pointing out that the fault is not in our phones, but in ourselves.



Curse of the Starving Class @ Signature  Jun 3 2019, 09:33:29 AM

I saw it over the weekend and felt as others have felt -- rather lacking in Shepard's humor, and way too heavy-handed and ponderous, it announced its own importance in every single second.  The opening gimmick was certainly spectacular, but it felt too on the nose, too blatant and obvious -- maybe if it had come later in the play, or something.

The squalor of the set got to be a distraction.  



A Little Night Music  May 21 2019, 02:38:33 PM

"No.  Not even figs.  Raisins.

Ah, Liaisons."

 

 



Laurie Metcalf and Eddie Izzard in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?  Apr 15 2019, 09:33:49 AM

There just weren't any available American actors in the entire continent ready willing and able to play these three roles.  They just had to go with British actors.  Is there some kind of Equity deal going on?  Or is Eddie Izzard's cache just that strong?



King Lear Reviews  Apr 5 2019, 09:22:57 AM

For me the biggest problem with the production, which I saw about a week ago, was the total, utter, absolute absence of anything remotely resembling even the vaguest whisper of an emotional connection between Lear and Cordelia.  There was nothing, zip zero zilch -- for the first time in my experience with this story I found myself imagining Cordelia on the throne of France, laughing laughing laughing and suggesting to her husband that there might be some nice real estate in her home coun

King Lear Reviews  Apr 5 2019, 09:06:54 AM

Brantley's comment on the score:

"this intermittent concert seems to be competing with, rather than underscoring, Shakespeare’s bleakest tragedy."

This.  THIS.



Stockard Channing in Six Degrees of Separation  Apr 3 2019, 11:35:15 AM

So here's a question, for those who saw Ms. Channing live as Ouisa.  One of my favorite things she did happened at the very end of the play ---

 

 
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when it's all kind of fallen down around her, and she's going to start a new life, and Paul appears to remind her that the Kandinsky has two sides.

Stockard Channing in Six Degrees of Separation  Apr 3 2019, 11:18:36 AM

I can only echo the praise of Ms. Channing's performance in SIX DEGREES.  She really was that good.  I remember being disappointed in the film, which couldn't summon the cinematic equivalent of the energy happening on that stage.  The film seemed rather earth-bound somehow.



Biggest Tony upset of all time?  Mar 19 2019, 04:05:06 PM

I remember Colm Wilkinson flinching when he lost Best Actor for LES MISERABLES to Robert Lindsay for ME AND MY GIRL.  And Mickey Rooney's frozen smile when he lost Best Actor in a Musical for SUGAR BABIES to a visibly surprised Jim Dale for BARNUM.

EDIT -- a quick check of Youtube confirms that I remember wrong -- Colm Wilkinson wasn't shown after Lindsay won.



Oscar Winning Screenwriter Adapting JEKYLL AND HYDE Musical for Screen  Mar 19 2019, 03:54:59 PM

Well of course.  The screenwriter of the utterly vapid BIRDMAN decides to bring the utterly vapid JEKYLL AND HYDE to the screen.  



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