Harvey's a hit says bway.com — Page 2

Don't ask so much of me!

Well, I gave him a bad review here...but I don't remember where..

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I think that Harvey is great in the role. He brings back the humor that Fred was lacking. It's a musical, we don't need someone doing television acting in a role originally portrayed by Zero Mostel.

As for Cariani-he's fantastic, and he's the only one who is consistently in character. As far as him appearing to be in a different show, I somewhat agree, but I can't blame him for that-that is entirely on Leveaux's head.

Anyway...I read the negative review on talkinbroadway, but really...who reads that other than the 17 people who post there?

I had ZERO desire to see the revival when I was in NY last year, but with Harvey and Andrea in the leads... Sounds like a winner!

This review makes me sick.

I agree with Ben Brantly. Even his negative opinion toward Molina makes me unhappy,at least he has the same critisized attitude to both actors instead some double standard SOB.

"It is Mr. Fierstein's greatest asset as a performer, that unmistakable voice, that perversely shatters this illusion. Theatergoers who saw - or more to the point heard - this actor in "Hairspray" will require at least 10 minutes to banish echoes of Edna. But even audience members unfamiliar with Mr. Fierstein may find him a slightly jarring presence.

Tevye must to some degree be an everyman, albeit in exaggerated, crowd-pleasing form. And Mr. Fierstein, bless him, shakes off any semblance of ordinariness as soon as he opens his mouth. Every phrase he speaks or sings, as he shifts uncannily among registers, becomes an event. And the effect is rather as if Ms. Channing were playing one of Rodgers and Hammerstein's simple, all-American heroines in "Oklahoma!" or "Carousel."

A master of droll comic melodramas in fringe theater long before he became a Broadway star with his "Torch Song Trilogy" in 1982, Mr. Fierstein inflects every line with at least a touch of the grandeur of old Hollywood movies, whether he's being husky with sentimentality, smoky with regret or growly with displeasure.

This can be quite a bit of fun. Tevye's first solo, "If I Were a Rich Man," takes on a fascinating new life, as Mr. Fierstein slides and rasps through its wordless connecting phrases. But it is sometimes hard to credit this exotic spirit as that of a tradition-bound father who has trouble making the adjustment to changing times.
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