I saw it tonight from the rush seats, which are fine, but just hope you don't have someone freakishly tall in front of you as I did tonight. I basically saw this persons head for most of the night with slight moments of what was actually going on. That said, I was feeling very sick tonight, like to the point where I shouldn't have gone to the theater at all, but I was so excited for this I was determined.
I think I would have been underwhelmed either way. The play starts of with a very strong (and quite funny) scene but the minute Christopher Walken's character left the stage things got decidedly less interesting. Anthony Mackie was the big surprise for me, with Sam Rockwell disappointing in what I thought was a pretty dull character, and the precise moment the play lost me was Sam Rockwell's monologue which was neither funny nor useful in terms of plot.
Overall, there were some very funny parts of the play, and I thoroughly enjoyed Walken and Mackie, but it isn't something that I would pay 116.50 for.
The audience seemed to be about sixty percent into and 40 percent not with at least four walkouts. I didn't stay for the stagedoor, but it looked like quite a crowd was building.
Updated On: 2/15/10 at 11:27 PM
