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

Posted by:	Mc1227 09:20 am EST 01/19/15
In reply to:	IT"S ONLY - NO, BARELY- A PLAY. - portenopete 12:43 am EST 01/17/15

I have seen this twice and enjoyed it each time. It's not the greatest play ever written but the performances were top notch each time and I dion't understand the Broderick bashing on here. He is not playing Leo Bloom or Felix Unger at all. If anyone was rechanneling a previous character, it was Mullally. He is playing the voice of the writer and is the only character that is not completely over the top. I am curious to see how Martin and Kate fare in these roles, so I may see it again with the discount offers now in place.

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

Posted by:	BroadwayTonyJ 12:54 pm EST 01/19/15
In reply to:	re: IT"S ONLY - NO, BARELY- A PLAY. - Mc1227 09:20 am EST 01/19/15

I'm with you on this one. Peter Austin is nothing like Bloom or Unger -- he's the grown-up in the room -- The Golden Egg is his child -- he's crushed by every word of every bad review he hears. I think Broderick takes the right approach by underplaying the role and he's pretty deft at it -- it would be out of character for him to go for big laughs. I found the show hilarious from beginning to end with the characters of James Wicker, Virginia Noyes, and Gus nailing the laughs -- Austin is the foil IMO.

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