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| Sugar Ray review | |
| Last Edit: bret17 11:38 pm EST 01/10/22 | |
| Posted by: bret17 11:36 pm EST 01/10/22 | |
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| The effete critics at the New York Times, Time Out and All That Chat have seen fit to ignore one of the greatest pieces of theater currently playing in New York City. If you’re here and looking for a slot to fill, fill it with this. “Reginald L. Wilson delivers a powerhouse performance as the great American Black fighter in this accomplished solo play that’s performed in a boxing ring.” |
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| Were critics invited by those sources? | |
| Posted by: dramedy 02:23 pm EST 01/11/22 | |
| In reply to: Sugar Ray review - bret17 11:36 pm EST 01/10/22 | |
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| You assume critics are ignoring but maybe the producers didn’t invite critics from every news source. | |
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| Posted by: bsturtle 08:31 am EST 01/11/22 | |
| In reply to: Sugar Ray review - bret17 11:36 pm EST 01/10/22 | |
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| The Times reviewed this play and this performance in 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/theater/review-sugar-ray-robinsons-bouts-and-biography-with-a-bite-thrown-in.html | |
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| Posted by: Chromolume 01:33 am EST 01/11/22 | |
| In reply to: Sugar Ray review - bret17 11:36 pm EST 01/10/22 | |
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| Sports biography plays have generally not had much luck. There was that thing a decade ago I like to refer to as "The Magic Bird" (really "Magic/Bird" but I think my title is much better) that didn't do very well, and it seems to me there was something else right in that same time frame that never caught on either. Weill and Brecht's "Little Mahagonny" (i.e. the "Mahagonny Songspiel") was originally staged in a boxing ring. It has actually survived the test of time - it's a piece that still gets performed and has a sense of history about it. |
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| Posted by: Jackson 03:23 am EST 01/11/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Sugar Ray review - Chromolume 01:33 am EST 01/11/22 | |
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| Was the other play that never caught on "Lombardi"? J |
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| Posted by: Chromolume 03:20 pm EST 01/11/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Sugar Ray review - Jackson 03:23 am EST 01/11/22 | |
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| Thanks - that's the one I was thinking of. | |
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| Posted by: StageLover 08:10 am EST 01/11/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Sugar Ray review - Jackson 03:23 am EST 01/11/22 | |
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| Perhaps BRONX BOMBERS, which, as a lifelong Yankees fan, I enjoyed. | |
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