#1326
Posted: 10/26/08 at 5:04pm
Aha, the big hands topic returns.
The Raúl E. Esparza "Spread the Love" Thread, Part Four — Page 54
#1327
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.
A work of art is an invitation to love.
#1328
Posted: 10/26/08 at 5:24pm
Hah, finally. 
"Blow out the candles, Robert, and make a wish. Want something. Want something."
Wishes come true, not free.
Wishes come true, not free.
#1329
Posted: 10/26/08 at 5:29pm
Finally she enjoys him? Yes, she has changed her mind. She wants to meet him and everything!
A work of art is an invitation to love.
She wants to meet him and everything!
#1330
Posted: 10/26/08 at 5:50pm
He has an *artist's* fingers! 
#1331
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
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
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Updated On: 10/27/08 at 02:10 AM
#1332
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.
#1333
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
"...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
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#1334
Posted: 10/27/08 at 5:48pm
so when will he start to sleep with Jeremy?
Do you know what happens when you let Veal Prince Orloff sit in an oven too long?
#1335
Posted: 10/27/08 at 7:29pm
When Jeremy lets him.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
#1336
Posted: 10/27/08 at 11:28pm
Interview with Raúl at TheaterMania.com
Speed Demon
Speed Demon
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#1337
Posted: 10/28/08 at 9:23am
Jeremy needs to get in line.
lol, I love the candlesticks in those screencaps.
lol, I love the candlesticks in those screencaps.
The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?
#1338
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...)
#1339
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
"...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
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#1340
Posted: 10/28/08 at 12:17pm
I love how the reviews continue to be (almost) uniformly great. :)
#1341
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.
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.
#1342
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!
Ahhhh, toe-wiggling pleasure all over!
#1343
Posted: 10/28/08 at 5:27pm
Raul needs to be in a show where he can showcase his incredible vibrato.
Obama/Biden 08
#1344
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.
A work of art is an invitation to love.
That upstairs part of the restaurant has a really strange pueblo look going on.
#1345
Posted: 10/28/08 at 9:17pm
Ohmigod!!! Pics of Raúl from 25/8!!!
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#1346
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!
#1347
Posted: 10/29/08 at 9:03am
oh...my....
The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?
#1348
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.
A work of art is an invitation to love.
#1349
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!
#1350
Posted: 10/29/08 at 9:33am
Sweet!
Now, mother always said that whenever you hear a strange, frightening, and potentially life-threatening ghostly chant coming from the dark woods that there's one thing that you should do: Not wake the others and go investigate it alone...
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