I mean, O’Hara got a rave from the times, to the extent where Green says that no one else is on her level. I think she will at least be nominated. Block is a force of nature, but I’m haunted by something good a friend said in the fall: “they’re never going to give her a Tony for playing Cher.”
Maybe- maaaaaaybe- playwrights like Noël Coward and Oscar Wilder can live by smart and clever line readings, but George Furth ain't Wilde or Coward and his linseed to sound as real and natural as possible.
This is quite funny. Coward and Wilde are some of the greatest writers of the late nineteeth and early twentieth centuries with works that continue to live on. Wilde's work in particular may have a heighten sense of language that leads you to believe it &quo
What Caryl Churchill play should I read first? Oct 9
2018, 02:37:45 PM
Caryl Churchill is one of the greatest Playwrights of our time - certainly the greatest living British playwright.
Top Girls and Cloud 9 are the perfect introduction to her. They start off with her more straightforward style, with her brilliant use of structure allowing the audience to understand the piece. Her use of casting in Cloud 9 and time in Top Girls make the plays brilliant on the page and in stage. Top Girls will be an event at the National next year - in no small reason that
I thought it was a wonderful production - though it is quite bleak. Jay O. Sanders is remarkable in the title role and the conversational nature of the play heightens the effect of the famous end of Act III.
All the roles were cast rather well, but I found Sonya oddly affected. It didn't seem that she understood or connected with Nelson's stark naturalistic style. The play was also short on humor. Odd, since The Apple Family Plays and The Gabriels
Marin Mazzie Had Passed Away Sep 13
2018, 04:58:32 PM
Shattering. A brilliant and kind individual. Sending love and support to Jason and their family.
"Related, if Tootsie turns out to be great, when was the last time a composer won back-to-back Tony Awards?"
Stephen Sondheim won 4 tonys in three years for the scores of Company, Follies, and A Little Night Music. In 1970, the score category was divided into Best Music and Best Lyrics, so Sondheim won 2 for Company.
I'm devastated. I never got to see Miss Harris live, but her performances through cast recordings, film and television, and these special live performances show just want a brilliant and singular performer she was. I've always held it out in my heart that I would one day get to experience her talent - even with her reclusiveness in her final years. In my wildest dreams, she would have come out of retirement to play Hattie in a film version of Follies. For some reason, Harris, who is s
Patti LuPone in HOH Jul 28
2018, 08:20:36 PM
Well, she could make it a (moderate) success for two months... but why would she do it? She’s about to play one of the great roles of musical theatre in a high-profile reimagining of a fantastic musical. By the time that revival closes in London, the mess that is HOH will be long dead.
NYT Offensive reviews Jul 27
2018, 02:31:28 PM
I agree that more news venues should start hiring or promoting non straight white male critics, especially in the theatre. When playwrights like Suzan Lori-Parks, Paula Vougel, and Lynn Notage’s new works receive middling reviews while works like “The Low Road” recieve the same mediocre reviews but somehow manage to get the “Critic’s pick” seal, it does make one wonder. However, if anyone thinks that the reason “Head Over Heels” got bad reviews because of the demographic, I question their d
Jesse Green wrote that this musical was probably only in existence to promote the Greatest Hits album that came out a few months ago. Now, I have that album, and, listening to this recording, it looks like they literally took all the songs from the Greatest Hits, truncated them, and then got amazing performers to belt them to the rafters.
The Times is not thrilled with it - but isn't that to be expected? They didn't like the first one, either (although in this review they conceed that the original was fun for the star power).
I'm very excited for this movie. The first one is a film I return to again and again - and I saw it three times in theatres! Honestly, it was the movie, along with Hairspray, that really got me into theatre. I had them on DVD and would watch them again and again.
Well, I'm certainly glad my LincTix is for the 4th. She's the cast member I'm most looking forward to. Nothing like seeing legends of the theatre do what they do best.
