| re: Favorites that got bad reviews | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 08:09 pm EDT 04/15/20 | |
| In reply to: Favorites that got bad reviews - aleck 09:37 am EDT 04/15/20 | |
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| "Number one on my list is Chess. That production, despite some curious set choices, blew me away -- that is during previews when I went twice. I went another two times after the scathing reviews came out. The performances -- Judy Kuhn, David Carroll, Philip Casnoff -- all fantastic. A gripping book and a load of great music." I have to disagree with you (strongly) about the book by Richard Nelson, but I can still see how you could love the show overall for the music and the performances. "Number two on my list is Jessica Lange in Streetcar Named Desire. What a performance. She made Streetcar a wholly new experience from all the previous productions I'd seen -- including the movie. I saw it during previews from the mezzanine. When the wildly negative reviews of her performance came out I was puzzled beyond expression when they claimed her performance did not reach past the fifth row. What fifth row? I was blown away when I was sitting upstairs. A later TV version of kind of changed people's minds about that performance." Word at the time was that Lange was giving extremely inconsistent performances, which sounded like a fair criticism because, back then, she had very limited or no prior stage experience. I only saw the show once, and I felt she was inconsistent even within that one performance -- not completely engaged during the first half of the play or so, much better in the latter part. I thought she was excellent in the TV version, but obviously that was a different animal, so I don't think it's right for any critic to see that and say they were "wrong" in their assessment of the stage performance -- especially since the quality of the stage performance reportedly varied so greatly from one to the next. |
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