"While he is quite literally a poor man's Hank Azaria"....
What does that literally mean?
I did not see the very starry original cast (Curry/Azaria/Hyde Pierce) but I can report that whoever the cast was I saw on the road (I do remember Michael Siberry headlined as Arthur) the show works very well with non-marquee names. I understand it might benefit from better-known stars in box office terms, but the casting I've heard does not augur for a sub-par production.
Iglehart's casting is, for me, counterintuitive from what I've seen him do, but it hardly will keep me from going to see it. If anything, it makes me curious.
Complaining that the original cast will be carbon-copied by this lot only makes me think that surely Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin had more than a little influence on them when they started rehearsals.
The people in this cast are all extremely talented, funny and appealing. But some of your criticisms...woof. |
