I listened to the free sample and there's just something about the Harper that makes my flesh crawl. ICE PARTICLES IN MY LUNGS! SHARP! Ugh. I saw the cinecast of Part 1 and never even went back for part 2. When the transfer was announced I was conflicted because I'd have liked to see Lee Pace and Nathan Lane and especially Beth Malone when she went in. But that was late in the run during my busy work season.
I'm something of an Angels in America nut. Saw the original broadway cast, then again with 50% replacements. then the first national tour. Alliance Theater production. Ivo von Hove's Dutch version at BAM. Oskar Eustis's incredible Trinity Rep production. And the CRIMINALLY OVERLOOKED off-Broadway revival with Billy Porter, Christian Borle and Zachary Quinto.
I thought the Brit revival was miscast and misguided. I think if what Garfield said about Kushner advising him that Pryor and Louis are FLAMING and want everybody in the room to know they are gay was bad advice taken too literally. I think it encouraged them to sabotage those characters, at least what I saw in the cinecast of the first half. Russell Tovey and Nathan Lane were pretty good though.
But that Harper. Yeesh. And that fugly angel, once I was able to find her on the theater screen, yuck.
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