Kick it old school, Wedding Singer! Break a leg and all that.
"Nothing's lost forever. In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead." -Tony Kushner's Angels in America
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
"I feel sad thinking about how NY theater critics are going to take newbie Stephen Lynch, chew him up, and spit him and this disaster of a show out all over the city. "
Clive Barnes, NY Post:
"Granted, there will be people out there who will like it, thanks particularly to the frenetically engaging Stephen Lynch - that wittily raunchy singer/comedian from Comedy Central who sings about dead kittens - as its frenetically engaging hero."
David Rooney, Variety:
"As title character Robbie Hart, a New Jersey wedding performer left at the altar, comedian Stephen Lynch is an appealing recruit for musical theater. Even if he doesn't have Sandler's vulnerability in the role, he handles both singing and acting duties with breezy confidence."
Ben Brantley, NY Times:
"But while Mr. Lynch is charming as Robbie in an angry or depressed mood (he does especially well by the two oddball songs retained from the movie, written by Mr. Sandler with Mr. Herlihy), he is more often called upon to be appealingly boyish, bringing to mind a less vain, less glib Ryan Seacrest."
Howard Kissel, NY Daily News:
"What saved the movie were its two leading actors, Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. The same is true of the show, which has two deeply appealing performers in Stephen Lynch and Laura Benanti.
As Robbie Hart, the singer, Lynch is a gifted comedian (whose own material is funnier than anything he gets here). He has a surprising vulnerability that makes him just right to play a wedding singer who gets stood up at his own wedding. He sings tenderly and dances with gusto."
Others are better and worse, but not exactly a "chewing up and spitting out."
Honey, that's not a compliment from Ben Brantley, lol.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Now what would you say if today I started over?
Without a thing but this taped together four leaf clover
And I'll pretend like everything is already alright
And I'll run toward the sun till the castle's out of sight
"Honey, that's not a compliment from Ben Brantley, lol"
Not the Seacrest comparison, but calling him "charming" and noting what he did "especially well" is. I was just being honest and not quoting just the best part out of context. But come on, WBAF, own it. You were off about Lynch.
