Profile for Roscoe

I can only guess at the level of favors that had to be called in to get Nathan Lane and Megan Mulally to commit to this witless dumpsterfire of a project.  Vile from start to finish, featuring in the leads the two least appealing alleged actors to appear outside of the January 6 riots.

 

 

He had me at hello.  And that hello was his entrance in the film of THE RITZ, looking all tough and butch, saying "I'd like a room, please" in that Mickey Mouse voice.  I've been a fan ever since.

Saw this the other night.  A tasty production, tight and interesting, of a not particularly interesting or novel play.  I was sure of where the play was going, just not quite sure of the route it was going to take.

There's a similar search in the Off Topic Chat, but it only gives results from the Broadway Chat.

Is there a search function available in the message boards?  It had disappeared in the Off-Topic board some time ago.

Lupone has zero f*cks to give about Andrew Lloyd Webber and any/all of this works.

The movie thinks it is about breathing new life into established art forms (jazz, music, cinema) but it is actually about making damn sure that nothing interesting happens as a result.  The movie is a cheesy knockoff of THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, and Chazelle should be flogged at Jacques Demy's grave.

At least, on Broadway, there's a likelihood that the cast will actually have a vague idea of how to sing and dance.

Well, it's the kind of show where there's this poor black kid who's been shocked into a lifetime of muteness because he saw his father lynched, and you just know that at some climactic moment he'll get his power of speech back, and then you know later on somebody's going to tell him "I liked you better when you weren't talking."

There's probably some contractual reason somewhere for this, but shouldn't there be a credit somewhere along the lines of "based on the screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond"?  Considering how very much of their dialogue made the transfer from screen to stage, to say nothing of all those character names...

Not me. Paper thin play.

George Clooney?  Really?  And Amy Grant?  Really?

 

Well, the Daily Beast review makes many very good points about the show.  The show's treatment of these issues opens itself up to charges of exactly the kind of homophobia the review talks about, and it's a pity that nobody concerned with the show apparently bothered to think about what exact message they were sending.

Well, it had to close eventually.  I thought the days were numbered when that perky self-congratulatory smiley face ad started running on TV.

I thought it was some late April Fool's Day gag at first.  I can't imagine anybody going back for the second film a year later.

Excellent news -- Alfie Allen is a welcome addition.  Maybe this will get McDonagh his long overdue Tony.

Interesting that the Jets get such short shrift in the trailer.  Am I the only one getting a bit of a gay vibe off of Riff (or at least the character I'm assuming is Riff)?

HogansHero said: "This will be watched repeatedly by classes on musical theatre writing. I can envision an entire semester learningexperience based on nothing else."

The class will be named Musical Theatre Writing: Don't Let This Happen To You.

A project worthy of Lopez's talents.  Such as they are.  Will it be six hours long?