Break a leg, WEDDING SINGER!- Page 2

[angelic1]

Posted: 4/27/06 at 9:46am

Kick it old school, Wedding Singer! Break a leg and all that.

[Princeton78]

Posted: 4/27/06 at 10:07am

Could someone please deliver these to Laura for me?

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 4/27/06 at 11:50am

Princeton, I actually just sent her those this morning. Gotta love 1-800-Flowers. :)

I'll give her a hug for you, though, tonight.

[Drew7810]

Posted: 4/27/06 at 11:52am

BREAK A LEG! I loved this show and hope it is around for some time to come! To a long and healthy life on the Great White Way!

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 4/27/06 at 11:53am

trash, you must LOVE Benanti.

I love her like hillbillies love moonshine...but I am so broke there's no way I can afford what 1-800-Flowers charges.

[WesternSky2]

Posted: 4/27/06 at 11:58am

Break a leg to the cast and crew... I love this show to death. Crossing my fingers for good reviews..

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 4/27/06 at 12:00pm

I have a ticket for this week!

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 4/28/06 at 12:47am

I hate to say I told ya so, but...

Updated On: 4/28/06 at 12:47 AM

[Yeah, um, no.]

Posted: 4/28/06 at 7:28am

Wanna Be A Foster wrote:

"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."

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 4/28/06 at 9:23am

Honey, that's not a compliment from Ben Brantley, lol.

[LeaGirl]

Posted: 4/28/06 at 9:28am

It isn't a chewing up and spitting out either.

[Yeah, um, no.]

Posted: 4/28/06 at 10:26am

"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.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 4/28/06 at 10:40am

Laura's an incredible person and sending her flowers, no matter the cost, on her big day only seems right.

Was there last night and have to say, the audience ate it up!