IT'S ONLY A PLAY Reviews — Page 2

Everyone should chill out.... It's only a play.

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Yes.

Why he keeps getting roles on Broadway when he has been pretty terrible in almost everything since "The Producers" is a mystery to me.

The single loudest laugh of the play, the night I attended, belonged to the Harvey Fierstein joke. And even if the other punchline was the biggest laugh- two hours of monotonous, somnambulant delivery is not redeemed by one joke.

Broderick served as a nothing but a black hole for the energy of the production. When he delivers his lengthy monologues, the ceiling of the Schoenfeld becomes more interesting.

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I do not agree with many on this board about Broderick. I think he did a fine job with this role which was the most difficult one of all the characters in this play. Lane was brilliant but along with the coat check character, they delivered line after line of jokes and with no depth of character required. In this play, along with his character in The Producers, Broderick provides the performance that the audience pulls for. A beaten down person who finds a way to persevere is the way it plays to me.

His subtlety provides the balance to the over the top characters that surround him. I actually find it a relief in this play rather than a negative. What I do concede, as I said from the time I saw it is that the length of the dialogue of his character should have been trimmed. That's the fault of the writer, not the actor.

Also, the funniest line of the night was delivered by Broderick on the night I saw the play, actually. Stopped the play for almost a full minute with applause as well. Timing was great with the few comic lines he was given.

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Loved Nathan and Stockard and says Micah could be the next Jim Parsons. But wonders why on earth Matthew got the last bow. "Largesse from Nathan?"

http://www.out.com/entertainment/michael-musto/2014/10/13/love-advice-gay-20somethings-how-hook-up%E2%80%94and-break?page=0,1