APPROPRIATE Reviews — Page 2

bfreak said: "Keep in mind, I believe 30 Under 30 tickets are still available (if you’re under 30, obviously). I was anticipating the great reviews and bought a ticket a few days ago for next month and am happy with the seat (Row P Right Orchestra)."

Seeing it this afternoon from those same seats! Excited to report back- really looking forward to this one

I didn't know this play at all going in but had high expectations as a HUGE fan of Sarah Paulson and knowing that the reviews were all positive (but not reading them so I could go in fresh).



Unfortunately, this show really didn't do it for me. The acting was great across the board and the set is phenomenal. Those are the only positive things I can say. 2 hours 40 minutes was very long and more importantly, it was extremely unpleasant to sit and watch horrible people scream awful things at each other, in many cases played for laughs.

I'm glad it seems to be resonating with a lot of people and I'm happy that Second Stage seems to have a hit on their hands, but I really did not like it at all.

Matt Rogers said: "They were selling their obnoxious $300 tickets today until at least 3PM. They didn’t know by then that cast members were unable to perform due to illness and that the show was cancelled???"

They've been open for a month now. Are their u/s not rehearsed? I found this cancellation odd.

Just walked in to tonight’s show after anticipating a cancellation. Only understudy is for Rachael (Natalie Gold) who will now be played by Lila Neugebauer!

Just an update to say that tonight Rachael was played by the understudy, Dana Skaarstad. She was great in the first few scenes to the point where I wouldn’t have guessed she was an understudy if I hadn’t known. Then came her big scene in act one, and you could tell she was getting flustered and starting to paraphrase, then she called for line twice. I thought maybe she was newly added to the production, but IBDb has her listed in the opening night cast, so I’m pretty shocked that an understudy wouldn’t know the lines at this point in the run.

Overall I loved the show though, and would like to go back and see it with Gold and Fanning in their roles.

Is it still protocol for an actor to be out of the show for 10 days if they test positive, or are they permitted back sooner now pending a negative test?

I LOVED IT. This cast is spectacular and the direction in brilliant

I didn’t like this as much as the audience did, or the critics. It felt like a basic play about a dysfunctional family and all their resentments and confronting the past. I feel like I’ve seen this play so many times over the past few years. I thought Sarah Paulson was fine and did a nice job with the monologue at the end. Bo’s rant about the plight of white men seemed to come out of nowhere. Was the kid jerking off to the pictures of the dead people? What did the tree at the end mean? Rebirth? Growing over the past? Moving on? Like the wood River was talking about top of act 2?

Holy **** that was great! Is any play coming in with a female lead that could possibly challenge Paulson? The cast was a collective delight, but my god was that a tremendous performance.

For the poster who asked, Elle Fanning and Sarah Paulson were both in today's matinee (a student matinee no less, most of whom who seem enthralled, especially the last 30 minutes).

Leaving this play I was left wondering when I had seen a non-historical play and/or an original IP play win the Tony for best play. A quick google search shows that there haven't been many over the past couple of decades. Would love this play to join that group. I've already bought tickets for February (...wow are those prices steep!).

Sarah Paulson gives the best dramatic performance since Edie Falco in Side Man. The play needs to be transferred if the actors are available. The direction is top notch! I am so happy that I got to see it.

All actors in tonight, and wow this play is a FIRECRACKER. Hysterical, horrifying, thought provoking. Branden Jacob-Jenkins is on a whole other tier of playwriting. The entire production is top notch. I can’t stop thinking about it. Bravo.

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Play Esq. said: "Holy **** that was great! Is any play coming in with a female lead that could possibly challenge Paulson?"

Paulson is certainly #1 in this early stage of the season. Upcoming we haveTyne Daly in Doubt, Rachel McAdams in Mary Jane, and Jessica Lange in Mother Play who could all be possible Actress contenders (sight unseen)."

I have no doubt that Sarah Paulson is great in the show. I think it is sad that, in mid-January, her perceived competition for a Tony are three actresses whose productions have not even been seen yet. I have to go back to perhaps the 70s to see such a paucity on new plays on Broadway (and Doubt is a revival). From reading the reviews, I would also imagine that the lead in Prayers... will also be a likely nominee.

I have been hoping that both shows will have the opportunity to transfer so I will have the opportunity to see them in the spring. Good as it is doing, I would have expected Appropriate to be selling out based on the reviews that I read, especially since it is in a small theatre. That fact may discourage talks of a possible transfer. Re Prayer, the reviews were not the 'this is the play you must see' type that I expected. Will keep my fingers crossed.