GOD OF CARNAGE to Close on June 27
GOD OF CARNAGE to Close on June 27
#1GOD OF CARNAGE to Close on June 27
Posted: 4/25/10 at 10:59pm
#3GOD OF CARNAGE to Close on June 27
Posted: 4/25/10 at 11:05pmAt least it's closing with a solid cast that does the show justice. Really love this show and I'm glad it had a life past the OBC!
sundayclothes2
Featured Actor Joined: 4/10/09
#4GOD OF CARNAGE to Close on June 27
Posted: 4/25/10 at 11:09pmThat is almost a year longer than originally planned. Good for them.
rmusic11322
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/07
#5GOD OF CARNAGE to Close on June 27
Posted: 4/25/10 at 11:11pmSould I try to catch the show before it closes? I think that I might not like it being that the show is about parents talking about there children and me being a teenager myself. So I have a feeling that I won't relate.
#6GOD OF CARNAGE to Close on June 27
Posted: 4/25/10 at 11:16pm
Parents talking about their children is merely the setup. Chaos and craziness ensue as they all implode and explode. If anything, see it for Janet McTeer's brilliant performance.
~Steven
#7GOD OF CARNAGE to Close on June 27
Posted: 4/25/10 at 11:29pmGlad I have this booked for my trip in 4 weeks.
#8GOD OF CARNAGE to Close on June 27
Posted: 4/25/10 at 11:31pm
Seeing it on Sunday. We're getting the regional premiere in Seattle in October but I'm excited about seeing this cast. I've heard nothing but raves.
Rmusic, have your parent ever had to argue with other parents about an issue/fight you had with another kid? I'm sure you can related to it from that point of view.
#9GOD OF CARNAGE to Close on June 27
Posted: 4/26/10 at 7:35amI'm 15 and I loved the show. Doesn't matter if you were a parent or child. I'm sure I would like it much more if I was older but I still enjoyed it. Also I hate shows about kids.
#10GOD OF CARNAGE to Close on June 27
Posted: 4/26/10 at 11:03amTo be perfectly honest, I think the play itself is mediocre at best. That being said, the cast members are giving fantastic performances, with the brilliant Janet McTeer at the helm. Go.
#11GOD OF CARNAGE to Close on June 27
Posted: 4/26/10 at 11:09amAgreed that the play itself is incredibly thin, and really just okay, it's the cast that has always given it value.
#12GOD OF CARNAGE to Close on June 27
Posted: 4/26/10 at 11:15amI agree it's hardly a great play, or rather, it's hardly an ambitious play. It's a good comedy and as a comedy I think it works. It's a great vehicle for four great actors to just let loose. I loved Hope Davis and Marcia Gay Harden in their roles and would have loved to see Lucy Liu and Janet McTeer. I also would have loved to see who they would have gotten next (so sad Donna Murphy never got to play Annette as I thought she would have been perfect in the part).
#13GOD OF CARNAGE to Close on June 27
Posted: 4/27/10 at 5:16am
It's had a great run and the current cast is fantastic. If you have the chance, go!
I wonder what will be getting the Jacobs.
bobert5353
Understudy Joined: 6/16/06
#14GOD OF CARNAGE to Close on June 27
Posted: 4/27/10 at 10:49amJanet McTeer makes the show, for sure. I may have to see this show again before it closes.
#15GOD OF CARNAGE to Close on June 27
Posted: 4/27/10 at 1:51pm
With the right cast, the play has depth and a lot of weighty stuff to chew on. I know some people on here inexplicably prefer this new (admittedly very good) cast to the OBC, but Marcia Gay Harden, Jeff Daniels and Hope Davis made it feel -- at least to me -- like a fully-realized, hilarious, deeply sad theatrical work that perhaps the text alone wouldn't support.
That said, I think "mediocre at best" and "thin" is being really overly harsh -- there's a lot of substantive things said about relationships and social parameters within the play, they're just drawn out of a simple/straight-forward premise. It's still absolutely worth seeing with this cast -- Daniels is phenomenal and McTeer is very good.
#16GOD OF CARNAGE to Close on June 27
Posted: 4/27/10 at 1:59pm
(so sad Donna Murphy never got to play Annette as I thought she would have been perfect in the part).
Now THAT sounds fantastic.
I haven't seen it since the OBC and I thought they were just perfect. Debating whether I should go back.
Ryan4
Stand-by Joined: 4/13/08
#17GOD OF CARNAGE to Close on June 27
Posted: 4/27/10 at 2:01pm
The reason that I prefer this current cast to the original is that I thought they brought out a depth in the play I hadn't noticed the first time around. Like many, when I first saw it I enjoyed it, but thought it light and somewhat superficial.
Second time around, it's still no masterpiece, but the comedy had real teeth. This quartet has a chemistry that reveals something disturbingly nasty and dark underneath the laughs, a real sense that these were marriages in deep crisis and some of their problems were insoluble.
#18GOD OF CARNAGE to Close on June 27
Posted: 4/27/10 at 2:03pm
Agreed. GOC is in excellent shape and will go out with a solid cast. Liu and McTeer are fine (with the latter being exceptional) but, I was most impressed with Baker and Daniels. Both are effortless and darn near perfection in their respective roles.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#19GOD OF CARNAGE to Close on June 27
Posted: 4/27/10 at 7:32pmSo I guess we're saying goodbye to the all-gay cast.
rmusic11322
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/07
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#21GOD OF CARNAGE to Close on June 27
Posted: 4/27/10 at 8:50pmAll Pakistani.
#23GOD OF CARNAGE to Close on June 27
Posted: 4/27/10 at 9:32pmEnjoyed the show when I saw it but I'm not surprised at all of this new. But congrats on a great run!
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