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re: IT"S ONLY - NO, BARELY- A PLAY.

Posted by:	John_Patti 10:44 am EST 01/17/15
In reply to:	IT"S ONLY - NO, BARELY- A PLAY. - portenopete 12:43 am EST 01/17/15

Maybe plays like these have been produced to help you hone your opinions into more easily digestible missives in the future with a little less selfagrandizing on your part. What a stretch that the author character could have some of the author in him. The same is assumed of all the characters. This was a star driven production people go for the stars not the play. Great producing because now even at discounted rates the show can run a bit longer and Broadway should always have a comedy running and even if not the best it's still fun to spend time in their and the authors company.

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re: IT"S ONLY - NO, BARELY- A PLAY.

Posted by:	portenopete 03:53 pm EST 01/17/15
In reply to:	re: IT"S ONLY - NO, BARELY- A PLAY. - John_Patti 10:44 am EST 01/17/15

Not sure how my post is "self-aggrandizing". I wasn't criticizing McNally for making the playwright quasi-autobiographical. But then making him the moral arbiter of the play without giving him anything interesting to say or do was disappointing. And suggesting that he's some kind of noble saint is, as I said, "self-aggrandizing". I don't disagree that it's "star-driven", but so are THE ELEPHANT MAN, THE RIVER, HEDWIG and umpteen other good shows. I just wish this one lived up to the wattage of its performers.

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