| re: Prior casting miscalculation: Henry Goodman as Max Bialystock | |
| Posted by: IvyLeagueDropout 10:03 pm EDT 08/01/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Prior casting miscalculation: Henry Goodman as Max Bialystock - portenopete 09:39 pm EDT 08/01/22 | |
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| I respect him as an actor and believe your perception that he is adept at comedy. But he wasn't funny in the show. I saw him. I think it was probably a true case of miscasting. My suspicion (I've never seen him onstage in anything else) is that he is a cerebral, character-driven actor, even when playing comedy. Max is just a ham. In a show constructed to be performed by a cast of hams being really hammy, with a central giant ham playing Max, you need that central performance to keep all the songs, dances and one liners firing on all cylinders. If you don't play it that way none of the other comedy is there. Had HG been cast as Max in development of the show, the construction of the comedy would have been very different (and not necessarily worse), but different. Instead he joined a show with an entirely different set of comic needs. | |
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