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re: Kung Fu--Good Show!

Posted by: Ballerina56 03:53 pm EDT 03/13/14
In reply to: Kung Fu--Good Show! - Zelgo 11:04 am EDT 03/13/14

I couldn't disagree with you more. I thought the script was threadbare, the cavern of a set underutilized, poor direction throughout, and a cast giving community theatre level performances. I found several sections downright embarrassing. I'd also like to know the name of the musical farce that Francis Jue was performing in. WHAT was he doing up there?

This is the same playwright, David Henry Hwang, that wrote M Butterfly, correct? Poorly structured with a melange of scenes that go nowhere and nothing to enhance the trite story, I'm surprised they allowed this to open in NY.

One can't fault dashing lead performer Cole Horibe, who according to his bio has no stage experience , as he gives it his dancers best. There's no question he's a magnetic performer, but only when the show stops to incorporate some martial arts/dance sequences that seem to have come from a dance concert at the Joyce Theatre.

I couldn't wait for it to end.


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''M.,'' ''M.,'' good!

Posted by: WaymanWong 02:51 pm EDT 03/14/14
In reply to: re: Kung Fu--Good Show! - Ballerina56 03:53 pm EDT 03/13/14

Yep, it's by David Henry Hwang, the same playwright who wrote ''M. Butterfly.'' Not only was it allowed to open, that's the same play that won the triple crown of Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk and Tony Award for Best Play in 1988. And it's the same play that ran for 777 performances on Broadway, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and turned into a 1993 movie.


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re: ''M.,'' ''M.,'' good!

Posted by: mendacity 04:12 pm EDT 03/14/14
In reply to: ''M.,'' ''M.,'' good! - WaymanWong 02:51 pm EDT 03/14/14

Pretty sure Ballerina56 meant "Kung Fu" shouldn't have been allowed to open, Wayman, not "M. Butterfly." (A little confusing in all the hyperbole.) ;)


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re: ''M.,'' ''M.,'' good!

Posted by: WaymanWong 04:31 pm EDT 03/14/14
In reply to: re: ''M.,'' ''M.,'' good! - mendacity 04:12 pm EDT 03/14/14

Then ''poorly structured'' should've been set off in a separate paragraph, instead of coming right after ''M. Butterfly.'' ;)


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