I did not miss the point of the thread, and I don't need you to use so many upper case letters to try to make me understand. I was just commenting that I disagree with you about the book of CHESS, and it was certainly not only professional critics who thought that book was very poorly written. I am an audience member as well as a professional critic, or "quasi-critic," to use your insulting phrase, so I didn't think I was forbidden from commenting in this thread -- though now I'm sorry I bothered to pick your post to respond to.
As for Jessica Lange in STREETCAR, I just thought I would point out what many people were saying at the time -- especially as it does not seem to have entered your mind that any actor can give performances of widely varying quality on different nights, especially if that actor is not used to acting on stage at all, not to mention in an open-ended run over a period of several months. Oh, and the fact that a friend of yours would decide in retrospect that he was "wrong" about Lange's performance as Blance onstage after seeing her performance in the TV movie strikes me as extremely odd.
Finally, while I don't want any part of whatever sort of "test" it is you're proposing in your last paragraph, I will say that when I saw HONEYMOON IN VEGAS at Paper Mill pre-Broadway, I loved it overall, as did many other critics AND regular audience members, but I thought that something went very wrong in the Broadway production -- and that opinion was also shared by lots of other people.
I will make a note of your name and will try to remember it so as not to respond to any of your posts in future. |
