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Posted: 11/7/03 at 9:01am
And Mr. Cantone, an often funny comic actor who originated his part, disastrously tips the production's tragicomic balance by playing a repressed, anal-retentive character in the style of Jerry Lewis at his most adenoidal.
- The New York Times
There's a fifth character in the play, Seavering's odd office factotum, Gidger, who's so camp he raises the concept of epicene to astral dimensions, an abrasive Mario Cantone is as outrageously awful as the role."
- The New York Post
Completing the circle is John's wry, whiny assistant, who, as played by Sex and the City's famously mannered Mario Cantone, becomes too much of a not-so-great thing.
-USA TODAY
Mario Cantone plays a homosexual who works in the office in 1919 as if he were a latter-day screaming queen, which deprives him of any dignity or mystery, diminishing the drama.
-The Daily News
Greenberg gives Gidger a long, almost irrelevant monologue at the start, which Mario Cantone is encouraged to play with all the prissy outrageousness of a cliche.
-Newsday
What a shame!
- The New York Times
There's a fifth character in the play, Seavering's odd office factotum, Gidger, who's so camp he raises the concept of epicene to astral dimensions, an abrasive Mario Cantone is as outrageously awful as the role."
- The New York Post
Completing the circle is John's wry, whiny assistant, who, as played by Sex and the City's famously mannered Mario Cantone, becomes too much of a not-so-great thing.
-USA TODAY
Mario Cantone plays a homosexual who works in the office in 1919 as if he were a latter-day screaming queen, which deprives him of any dignity or mystery, diminishing the drama.
-The Daily News
Greenberg gives Gidger a long, almost irrelevant monologue at the start, which Mario Cantone is encouraged to play with all the prissy outrageousness of a cliche.
-Newsday
What a shame!
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