Isherwood Fesses Up To Being The "Odd-Man-Out" In His Dislike For TENOR

I find it interesting that he says it isn't a critic's responsibility to describe audience reaction. While I agree with him that critics shouldn't have to do that, I also think that critics shouldn't report misinformation. He actively did this in his original review, which can be proven from looking at this new entry.

In his initial review he said "But the heady ether of prime farce never materializes in this labor-intensive but laugh-deficient evening."

Now he says "But a fair portion of the audience was howling consistently at the antics onstage."

I agree that he shouldn't report audience reaction if he doesn't want to, but he shouldn't say ANYTHING if he's going to be misleading.

Good old Isherwood. Anyone who publishes an article in the NY Times entitled "COAST OF UTOPIA Is A Bore. There, I Said It" has my goodwill forever.

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Frankly I appreciate his willingness to fess up to his departure from conventional wisdom, but I am surprised that he did it.

As a newspaper journalist, it seems to me like someone was taken to the whipping shed and was told to respond to some kind of backlash. I'm sure he didn't want to write this.

Wonder what old David Merrick would do about him were he still alive?

How about a vampire musical about Broadway with Merrick as the Vampire, To stay alive, he must drink the blood of critics.

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I'd loved to have seen the embers set by David Merrick under either Brantley or Isherwoodl He would have had a field day!

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