The Raúl E. Esparza "Spread the Love" Thread, Part Four- Page 54

[wonkit]

Posted: 10/26/08 at 5:04pm

Aha, the big hands topic returns.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/26/08 at 5:22pm

I'm probably going sometime this week, and then I'm taking my family at some point. They're all reaaally into Entourage, and my mom enjoys Raul.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 10/26/08 at 5:24pm

Hah, finally.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/26/08 at 5:29pm

Finally she enjoys him? Yes, she has changed her mind. She wants to meet him and everything!

[Hest882]

Posted: 10/26/08 at 5:50pm

He has an *artist's* fingers!

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 10/27/08 at 2:10am

BroadwayWorldTV feature on opening night of Speed-The-Plow! See Raúl hump a desk! See Raúl flutter!





And some more pics of the interview (what can I say? I can’t help it -- I’m a screencapping fool!)





















Sneek Peak at Opening Night of Speed-The-Plow

Updated On: 10/27/08 at 02:10 AM

[wonkit]

Posted: 10/27/08 at 3:51pm

I love this interview because I don't think Raul breathes at all during the whole thing. It is like he is outdoing Mamet at his own game.

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 10/27/08 at 4:08pm

Excerpt from Seth Rudetsky's weekly column on Playbill.com, "Onstage and Backstage":

"...on Thursday I was leaving therapy…uh, physical therapy, that is…and I ran into Raúl Esparza on the corner. It was his opening night for Speed-the-Plow, and I asked him if there was any singing in the show or at least a mega-mix at the end. He said he'd love to do a Mamet mega-mix but was nervous they'd be arrested for too much profanity. I wonder if there was one in the eighties version. It would have involved Madonna in a body mic right next to her mouth, yet lip-synching per usual, a pointed cone bra and an inappropriately used water bottle."
ONSTAGE & BACKSTAGE: High on the Morrow

[fflagg]

Posted: 10/27/08 at 5:48pm

so when will he start to sleep with Jeremy?

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 10/27/08 at 7:29pm

When Jeremy lets him.

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 10/27/08 at 11:28pm

Interview with Raúl at TheaterMania.com
Speed Demon

[misschung]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 9:23am

Jeremy needs to get in line.

lol, I love the candlesticks in those screencaps.

[wonkit]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 10:39am

Hooray for the idea in the last line of the Theatermania interview! I had also thought, after seeing this production, this would make a good movie - since it is about making movies! Mamet has done screenplays, so what is he waiting for? (Ironically I can imagine production office meetings just like this play ABOUT this play, with SPEED-THE-PLOW as the Radiation book...)

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 11:19am

Wow! The Siegels over at TalkinBroadway REALLY REALLY loved Raúl in Speed-The-Plow:

"...the current production offers Raúl Esparza giving a performance that is, in a word, sensational....you'll come out of the theater simply raving about Esparza.

We would have preferred that the vehicle that finally transformed Esparza from a solid leading man into the top ranks of Broadway actors would have been a musical. Be that as it may, we're glad to see that his electric performance in Speed-the-Plow will also speed Esparza to the point where folks write musicals and plays specifically for him. Certainly Mamet is a good fit for this actor because the playwright tends to specialize in characters that are volatile and intense, two things Esparza does extremely well. We wouldn't be surprised to see Esparza in future Mamet plays, whether they are revivals or new works. But please, somebody get Raúl in a musical!"
The Siegel Column

[Hest882]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 12:17pm

I love how the reviews continue to be (almost) uniformly great. :)

[wonkit]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 2:11pm

Also the Financial Times! The last paragraph of a middling review:

The glory of this production - the reason to see it, in spite of the play's meager satisfactions - is Raul Esparza's Charlie Fox. The quick-stop timing, the biting inflections, the final fury: all are superb. Esparza is the only actor on Broadway who can succeed in Sondheim one minute, and Pinter or Mamet the next.

[Hest882]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 2:21pm

Esparza is the only actor on Broadway who can succeed in Sondheim one minute, and Pinter or Mamet the next.


Ahhhh, toe-wiggling pleasure all over!

[bwayfan9]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 5:27pm

Raul needs to be in a show where he can showcase his incredible vibrato.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 7:22pm

lol, I love the candlesticks in those screencaps.

That upstairs part of the restaurant has a really strange pueblo look going on.

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 9:17pm

Ohmigod!!! Pics of Raúl from 25/8!!!

[Hest882]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 10:31pm

Oh wow, so that's really happening? Yay for Raul! Although...part of me wishes it weren't because it would mean I'd be enticed to my first horror movie in, like, 20 years, and then it will take me another 20 to fall asleep with the lights off!

[misschung]

Posted: 10/29/08 at 9:03am

oh...my....

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/29/08 at 9:06am

The last one scared the crap out of me when I first glanced at it, but then once I looked a little closer, it just cracked me up. I have no idea why.

[wonkit]

Posted: 10/29/08 at 9:24am

Just in time for Halloween - some spooky photos! But I am like hest - if I see this, I won't be able to sleep in the dark for months, as I never go to horror movies!

[spidey_882]

Posted: 10/29/08 at 9:33am

Sweet!