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Stroman and comedy

Posted by: Chazwaza 11:50 am EDT 03/14/14
In reply to: Saw BULLETS last night... - dwing 10:29 am EDT 03/14/14
I may be wrong but it seems like Stroman has a problem doing comedy. I know The Producers, a straight up comedy and one of the funniest ever on Broadway, was her biggest success... but with laugh-out-loud comedy genius Mel Brooks writing the score and co-writing the book off his movie, and with comedy genius performer Nathan Lane, I think they must have brought it out in her and found the funny themselves a lot, not needing her to do it.

When she directed the movie it didn't seem like she had much skill directing comedy... everything that was funny on stage just fell flat. I'm not sure who to blame considering it was the same material and same Nathan Lane, with other funny people in there (I never found Broderick funny in the stage version either so I leave him out)... but surely she takes the bulk of it.

Woody Allen isn't laugh out loud funny the way Brooks is, not in the broad way a big old fashioned musical comedy way at least. And this show doesn't have an original comedic score.

Anyway, just a thought.


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