A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE Reviews- Page 2

[adamgreer]

Posted: 1/24/10 at 10:19pm

Anyone wanting to use the discount code should probably order tickets tonight, as I expect the code will disappear tomorrow morning after these reviews.

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/24/10 at 10:21pm

Schreiber seems like he could be the frontrunner for the Tony. But the show being closed by Tony time could affect his chances.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 1/24/10 at 10:32pm

"What a joke ATC is. Murray is always the polar opposite of almost everyone else"

So just because this critic disagrees with most, it's a joke?
I think it's good that there are different views. Also, although I am a fan of this revival, and the play itself, I understand where the critic is coming from with the comments. Also, I haven't seen any other production of this play. So this critic might have seen other versions of this play(e.g. the Broadway revival starring Allison Janney and Brittany Murphy)

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 1/24/10 at 10:34pm

"Schreiber seems like he could be the frontrunner for the Tony. But the show being closed by Tony time could affect his chances"

I don't know him personally, but I don't think he is worried about winning another Tony or not, at all.

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/24/10 at 10:37pm

^ Huh? Where did I say he was worried?

[A Director]

Posted: 1/24/10 at 11:01pm

Based on his review, I doubt if Matthew Murray understands A View From The Bridge.

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/24/10 at 11:28pm

New Jersey Newsroom

"Written by Miller with an inexorable sense of doom, "A View From the Bridge" is a drama where viewers realize early on that something bad surely is on the way and yet can't help but hope the flawed hero somehow will avoid catastrophe. Schreiber's sensitive, deeply-felt portrayal of inarticulate Eddie Carbone only increases one's pity for this good-hearted man wrecked by a love gone terribly wrong."

http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/movies/liev-schreiber-and-scarlett-johansson-enhance-a-view-from-the-bridge

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/24/10 at 11:31pm

Theatermania is not much of a review

"While the play never packs less than a knock-out dramatic punch, it does have its weaknesses. It's one thing to use Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides and colleagues as models, but it's quite another to keep calling attention to the tactic. Alfieri refers to the Greeks in his opening speech as well as in his closing remarks, where he goes into an inscrutable peroration about Eddie Carbone as a tragic figure. But the truth is Miller really needn't plug away at his exalted influences. A View From the Bridge speaks for itself."

http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/reviews/01-2010/a-view-from-the-bridge_24350.html

[Smaxie]

Posted: 1/24/10 at 11:34pm

>Schreiber seems like he could be the frontrunner for the Tony.<

Hard to say. He's very good in it, but we still have Christopher Walken, Denzel Washington, Alfred Molina, Norbert Leo Butz, among others, still to come.

Updated On: 1/24/10 at 11:34 PM

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/24/10 at 11:35pm

^ Very true. This is a great season for plays.

[TalkinLoud]

Posted: 1/24/10 at 11:40pm

Loving all these positive reviews, especially for Scarlett! I can't wait to see this play!

[gcontini2]

Posted: 1/24/10 at 11:44pm

Surprised (but relieved) that most of the critics so far have given Scarlett the thumbs up...I was at the opening tonight and was struck by the realization that -- surrounded by a superb cast in much meatier roles -- Scarlett's Catherine role is the most passive and least interesting of the group's.
I think she made the most of it, but again, I'm glad that the critics seem to think so, too.

[littlepaperstars]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 12:06am

Smaxie, what is Norbert Leo Butz slated to be in?

So thrilled for these reviews, though I'm still sad about the whole Santino Fontana thing - he was one of the highlights (with Liev) for me.

[singtopher]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 12:10am

Butz is in ENRON if i'm not mistaken.

Personally, I thought Scarlett was flat when I saw it. Maybe it's just the character.

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 1:19am

More overwhelmingly positive reviews


NY1
http://www.ny1.com/9-staten-island-news-content/ny1_living/112537/ny1-theater-review---a-view-from-the-bridge-

Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/24/AR2010012402746.html

I imagine tickets are going to sell like crazy now. The discount will certainly be gone by morning.

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 1:23am

John Simon is Mixed
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aN4U2AC2acCU

[lull89]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 1:26am

B+ from Entertainment Weekly:

"As Catherine, Scarlett Johansson doesn't look 17 (her stage wig does her no favors either) and struggles a bit on what to do with her hands, but otherwise acquits herself well in her Broadway debut. Jessica Hecht (seen last fall in another Brooklyn-set drama, Brighton Beach Memoirs) touchingly reveals the predicament of Eddie's beleaguered wife, Beatrice. The rest of the cast hit their marks on John Lee Bailey's evocative revolving set.

But this production pivots on Schreiber, as it must. And the actor effectively conveys Eddie's inner torment, feelings so deep he seems incapable of articulating them with mere words, let alone of overcoming them"
EW.com Stage Review: A View From the Bridge; Reviewed by Thom Geier

[allofmylife]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 4:16am

Who cares about these last few mixed reviews (and who cares about John Simon anymore, any way, anyhow?) The producers and cast must be over-the-moon and there are pull quotes from Brantley alone to plaster the entire exterior of the Cort Theater. Wow.

[Stage Door Sally]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 7:24am

Reading both Murray and Simon's reviews, I wonder if what they really wanted was Lolita, and were disappointed they didn't get it. I think they both hate the play itself, and Miller (Simon contemptuously pointing out what he believes to be a typo in Rodolpho's name).

Whatever, to each his/her own. I think most people will enjoy this play very much, as I did.
Updated On: 1/25/10 at 07:24 AM

[gcontini2]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 8:37am

Wow...Looks like the usually hard-to-please TimeOut New York even likes the production (4 Stars out of 5)...


http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/theater/82267/a-view-from-the-bridge-at-cort-theatre-theater-review
Updated On: 1/25/10 at 08:37 AM

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 9:03am

"Reading both Murray and Simon's reviews, I wonder if what they really wanted was Lolita, and were disappointed they didn't get it. I think they both hate the play itself, and Miller (Simon contemptuously pointing out what he believes to be a typo in Rodolpho's name)."

Yeah, Simon's gone on record to say that he doesn't like Miller. In fact, he has a very negative opinion of Death of a Salesman...not the same play being discussed here but it IS Miller.

[April Saul]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 9:27am

Guys--If you want to do and they're still doing it, the general rush was amazing...first and second rows center and sides when I tried it early in previews, no student status required!

[singtopher]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 9:57am

Congrats to everyone involved!

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 11:14am

The NY Post is very positive with 3 1/2 out of 4 stars:

"At the end of the day, you just can't beat a good, taut yarn. And that's exactly what Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge" is, barreling down toward an ending that's as shocking as it is inescapable. From the first minute, we know it's all going to end in tears, and we can only watch in dismayed apprehension.

...

Rarely has a character shown so much appetite for self-destruction as Eddie, and Schreiber's sober portrayal makes you feel for each agonizing decision. But then, we already knew that Schreiber is a superb stage actor equally at ease in Shakespeare ("Macbeth") and Mamet ("Glengarry Glen Ross"), and that Hecht can suggest flutters of pain and defiance that will tear your heart out.

Johansson, on the other hand, comes out of left field with a committed performance that's resolutely unshowy. She certainly does better by Miller than Katie Holmes did in 2008's "All My Sons."

This Catherine is demure and shy, but she also goes after what she wants, and it's just wonderful to watch Johansson challenge both herself and our expectations of her.

She's the biggest surprise in a production that's short on them -- not that this is a bad thing. As this show proves, a punch in the gut doesn't hurt any less if you see it coming."
Full Review

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 1/25/10 at 11:26am

RE: Schreiber and the Tony. Has anyone noticed that View will be departing the Cort "just in time" to make way for Fences, which is supposed to play at the same theatre. Anyone think that one of them will end up in another theatre?