| Jesse Green on THE ROYAL FAMILY OF BROADWAY at Barrington Stage. | |
| Last Edit: portenopete 06:05 pm EDT 07/05/18 | |
| Posted by: portenopete 06:01 pm EDT 07/05/18 | |
|
|
|
| I wish I were able to see it to judge for myself, but my fears from what I saw in the provided video clips seem to be shared by Mr. Green. (He's more generous to the tunes than I was from my brief hearings, but he is spot on about the lyrics and their scattershot rhymes.) I've never understood Ben Brantley's fearsome reputation since he assumed Frank Rich's seat. But Jesse Green seems primed to really deserve the sobriquet "The Butcher of Broadway". He doesn't strike me as having the sentimental streak that Brantley occasionally displays and I doubt we will see from him the kind of breathless encomia that encouraged a less-than-stellar show like HONEYMOON IN VEGAS to make a Broadway transfer. (Having said that, I am indebted to him for encouraging the transfer of ON THE TOWN a few years ago- from Barrington- which seemed like a gargantuan folly given George C. Wolfe's well-documented Central Park move in the '90s that nearly decimated The Public's coffers and especially after it was announced it was going into the cavernous Lyric. That production remains one of the best and most moving experiences I've had in a theatre in the last decade.) |
|
| Link | Review: ‘The Royal Family of Broadway,’ This Time in Song |
| reply | |
|
|
|
| Previous: | TB REGIONAL REVIEW: "SPY LOVE YOU" in PHOENIX - T.B._Admin. 06:25 pm EDT 07/05/18 |
| Next: | re: Jesse Green on THE ROYAL FAMILY OF BROADWAY at Barrington Stage. - NewtonUK 07:14 am EDT 07/06/18 |
| Thread: |
|
Time to render: 0.018090 seconds.