Profile for PipingHotPiccolo

i was there tonight. i think this play could really benefit from an intermission because it felt longer than it actually was. 

i found myself thinking it was a sit-commy slight whiff of a play, but it grew some meat on the bones towards the end that kicked up a notch for me. 

patti lupone feels somewhat miscast- shes playing patti in a strangely bad wig. im not sure if any other actress could really fix the imbalance here, though: her character Robin is a supporting role to Shar

i'm sadly the dissenting voice here, though i DO appreciate the mad genius of Cole Escola. the whole thing is just over the top brilliant witty looniness, and Escola is hysterical, but i found the madcap weirdness somewhat exhausting pretty quickly?  It felt overly absurdist to start, then settled into a groove I really liked, and then went off the deep end at the end. 

I can see liking this more in a small theater, with the wit coming out of nowhere, but for $175 on a Sa

Jordan Catalano said: "I guess i really am in the minority liking this one, whereas I felt “From Here” was one of the worst things I’ve ever had to suffer through."

I respect your opinion a whole lot Jordan Catalano but i was mystified by this one.

its a nice concept, and the actors are great (especially Gamze Ceylan, wow) but there is zero insight into grief, and the platitudes wear thin very quick. a high school student taking AP Ps

Skip23 said: "PipingHotPiccolo said:

”i thought by far the mvp of the night though was Daniel Breaker. He makes this guy totally his own, is quite funny from the jump, and then breaks your heart (with an out of left field number) in Act 2. Really hope hes remembered next spring, he was the highlight for me tonight.

Front balcony was fine for this. Audience absolutely ate this up."


Damn. I wasn’t going to see this again.

kudos to this production, because i dont really care for this score, and slapstick shticky humor doesnt do it for me, but they manage to overcome that quite nicely. act 1 especially is a ton of fun, and while the songs screech the humor to a halt for me, the book has been so well wittified and modernized, i found myself laughing out loud quite a bit.

yes, sutton foster is fantastic and more importantly, seems to be having such a blast on stage, from start to finish, its infectious. uri

Broadway Flash said: "Are you kidding me?? It’s all anybody talked about this spring, was the rumble. People kept going on and on and on about it, my goodness. The gay men I will site are friends of mine and all the comments they made, and the ones made on the pervy broadway forums."

lol the pervy broadway forums! im missing out on so much imaginary stuff.

but AGAIN it is so insanely offensive to reduce what is without a doubt one of the most cleverly st

funny for this to pop up today- friends from Spain are in town and insisted they had to see Moulin Rouge, so I was back for my third visit to that boring show- some highs (Andre Ward, Derek Klena's take on the role) and some lows (overall energy, Derek Klena's voice struggled a whole bunch) but

Hailee Kaleem Wright was a simply fantastic Satine. I mean, just a fully realized, rock solid performance with insane vocal runs/power. Light years better than Olivo or that Austral