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re: BRANTLEY on ROCKY: a disingenous joke of a review

Posted by:	Chromolume 06:04 pm EDT 03/14/14
In reply to:	BRANTLEY on ROCKY: a disingenous joke of a review - BroadwayLouBlaze 05:14 pm EDT 03/14/14

He says that at 10:10 (when the fight begins) that the audience "wakes out of its couch potato stupor." Ok, as it happened, I was at the same performance as Brantley. Saw the man come in. Saw him take his seat. I know and he knows the audience was in anything but a stupor." I mean come on...he knows that. So, simply put, this is a lie. He is absolutely misreporting what was happening at the event he covered. Were you sitting right near him? Isn't it quite possible that he was honestly reporting the energy (or lack thereof) he felt in his vicinity? Whether it should or shouldn't be his job to comment on what he feels the audience is feeling (and I think to some extent that should be allowed in a review), certainly no one expects him to be able to gauge the entire audience - he can only go on what he experiences around him. And indeed, maybe everyone around him WAS bored until the finale. How can YOU be sure they weren't??

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Thread:	re: BRANTLEY on ROCKY: a disingenous joke of a review - Ann 06:17 pm EDT 03/14/14 (2) Agree .... - jdm 06:44 pm EDT 03/14/14 (1) Seemed like an enthusiastic house to me. - Restoration 08:21 pm EDT 03/14/14

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