Mr. Marmalade
Mr. Marmalade
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#0Mr. Marmalade
Posted: 11/4/05 at 1:27pm
I'm seeing Mr. Marmalade with Michael C. Hall tonight.
We shall see how it is.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#1re: Mr. Marmalade
Posted: 11/4/05 at 1:28pm
Let us know.
My tickets are in December.
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#2re: Mr. Marmalade
Posted: 11/4/05 at 2:00pmI was supposed to go Wednesday evening, but silly me booked two shows that night -- since Marmelade was part of the series, easy swap for early December. I've not heard a word yet, but it has been only 3 performances...
"Sir K, the Viscount of Uppity-shire...." -- kissmycookie
#3re: Mr. Marmalade
Posted: 11/4/05 at 3:35pmGoing two weeks from tomorrow. I'm a big fan of Mr. Hall and am looking forward to seeing him back on the boards. Should be good...
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#4re: Mr. Marmalade
Posted: 11/5/05 at 12:00amInteresting, I liked it though at times I thought that I was having an acid flashback, a little on the surreal side. Michael C. Hall was good. Mamie Gummer, who's Merryl Streep's daughter (and looks like her) was really good as Lucy.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#5re: Mr. Marmalade
Posted: 11/21/05 at 5:02pmThe reviews are not too kind. Anyone else see it?
PEACE.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#6re: Mr. Marmalade
Posted: 11/21/05 at 5:04pmI actually read it over the weekend. Interesting, could have been brilliant, but a little shallow.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#7re: Mr. Marmalade
Posted: 11/21/05 at 5:22pmThe reviews have been unfair. Yes, it does go on for too long and it's not as deep as it coule have been. But it's totally enjoyable. Mamie Gummer is terrific. Adults playing kids can go wrong so easily. But she pulled it off amazingly well.
#8re: Mr. Marmalade
Posted: 11/21/05 at 5:42pm
Went to the Saturday matinee (a press performance...every major critic seemed to be there). The play itself did nothing for me. Absurdist to the point of stupidity. The acting was superb, with the exception of Pablo Schreiber (whom I saw in Manuscript and didn't like...I guess Liev got all the talent in the family). Hall and Gummer were both outstanding, and the always wonderful David Constabile steals every scene he's in.
I wouldn't highly recommend it, but there are much worse shows.
** 1/2 out of ****
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#9re: Mr. Marmalade
Posted: 11/21/05 at 6:01pmSpent our time & money seeing In My Life instead of this & glad we did
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Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#10re: Mr. Marmalade
Posted: 11/21/05 at 6:21pm
Roxy, I just knew that you and your wife were "Lifers". Didn't you just love the lyric, "I've heard a little rumor/You've got a little tumor"?
BTW: What does the lyricist mean by the phrase, "Life turns on a dime"?
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#11re: Mr. Marmalade
Posted: 11/21/05 at 7:24pm
Anyone else simply tired of this genre? The precious-slash-cutting-edge absurdist cartoon (post-FUDDY MEERS). There are some talented and entertaining practitioners of this style (I used to enjoy even the most flawed Nicky Silver plays, because they all had some real intellectual weight behind them). But to me the gold standard was early and brief, Craig Lucas's RECKLESS, and even that seemed diminished in revival because it's been so copied. Different strokes for different folks, but I think producing organizations are too taken with their "theatricality" merely because they escew naturalistic elements. To me, they are too often sketch-like doodles, stretched to a full evening, that depend on outre trappings, Peewee's Funhouse settings, and arch presentational acting. We could use a few more PROOFS and DOUBTS.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
Updated On: 11/21/05 at 07:24 PM
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#12re: Mr. Marmalade
Posted: 12/8/05 at 11:29pm
I hated it.
Which, I realize is a rather 'simple' review. But, that's all I have to say. I couldn't wait for it to end.
Kudos to some of the acting...
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
calexan
Swing Joined: 10/20/05
#13re: Mr. Marmalade
Posted: 12/11/05 at 6:22pmI liked it, but my wife didn't. I'm thinking that maybe I should have an imaginary Lady Marmalade.
