| re: So, will Ben Platt be playing Franklin Shepard or Charley Kringas? | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 01:33 pm EDT 09/03/19 | |
| In reply to: re: So, will Ben Platt be playing Franklin Shepard or Charley Kringas? - Michael_Portantiere 06:52 pm EDT 09/02/19 | |
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| Regarding Pierce, I was one of the people who wondered how Pierce would approach the role of Horace, given that it's something completely different from the kinds of roles that we'd seen him in previously (SPAMALOT, CURTAINS, and, of course, FRASIER, amongst others). And for me, he was the real revelation of the production. Everyone else was doing what they do brilliantly...Pierce was doing something new and wonderful and was the tough spine that this production really needed. I continue to marvel at what he did with the line in the last scene where he's responding to Dolly having said that she's found him an ideal wife. I'm paraphrasing here, but the line is something like "I don't want any ideal wife. If I want an ideal wife, I'll go and find one on my own, and I have found her and it's you dammit." Pierce hit that speech fast-talking and argumentative, as his Horace often was, but took a pause (and possibly put a period on the sentence) after the word "you." And then took a moment to realize for the first time what he's actually said before coming out with the last word "Dammit," as though he were trying so hard to not say this exact thing to her and just couldn't help himself. It was so good and so perfect and so in character. Pierce should have had that Tony that he wasn't even nominated for, the one that went to his cast mate, Gavin Creel. Creel was excellent, especially if you like casting leading man types as Cornelius, but he wasn't doing anything, for lack of a better term, special with the part that we hadn't seen from him or others before. |
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