Rotel:
The 2004 revival was a limited engagement that I believe extended by a week or two due to "popular demand." The first few weeks it didn't sell all that well, but a few weeks later, it was SRO. You can check the grosses for it.
The audience was the most culturally diverse I had seen until the Color Purple. It was also filled with many young people hooting and hollering at the stage like it was a concert. It was sometimes distracting, but I remember feeling how great it was to see all these people who had never even heard of people like Audra McDonald, or even stepped into a theater so engaged and affected by the play.
As for this new film version, it is almost exactly the same as the stage production. The women are acting rings around Sean Combs, though he is doing better here due to the proximity and intimacy of the camera.
What I do remember is that whenever Walter Lee had a huge emotional moment or the equivalent of that, someone decided to have Sean turn around and face the wall so that he wouldn't have to show his face, and they seem to be doing that a lot here.
-There's the muddle in the middle. There's the puddle where the poodle did the piddle."
Updated On: 2/25/08 at 09:58 PM
She's doing well too.
