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re: RETHINKING SOME OF MY ORIGINAL POST

Posted by:	ryhog 12:19 pm EDT 03/15/14
In reply to:	RETHINKING SOME OF MY ORIGINAL POST - BroadwayLouBlaze 10:23 am EDT 03/15/14

A few quick reactions to your "rethinking: 1. No one gets extra points for how "brutally difficult" it is. That goes with the territory. We also do not cast actors for roles in shows based on how tough the life of an actor is in New York. Laying off of criticism on that basis is an appeal to mediocrity. 2. Brantley does not "design" his reviews to "damage the financial prospects." Sorry, but notwithstanding your claimed "closeness" to the industry, that's just naive. Critics like and dislike, just like everyone else, and sometimes, just like the rest of us, they fucking hate something. This is one of those cases. 3. Judging "stupor" is an art form of its own. The chief critic of the Times is well aware that press agents have seeded the audience with enthusiastic (often too enthusiastic) people. But people who go to the theatre a couple hundred times a year know the difference in enthusiasm and stupor, observe whether the audience is checking out during stretches between exciting moments and remembering that, on Broadway, audiences are the opposite of tough-they applaud, they stand, they text-without regard to whether they end up loving a show. By all means root for a show if you are motivated to your heart's content. But you do yourself no favors when you attribute ulterior motives to others for expressing their feelings.

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