Jackie Mason: Freshly Squeezed reviews
Jackie Mason: Freshly Squeezed reviews
Jackie Mason: Freshly Squeezed reviews#0
Posted: 3/23/05 at 10:26pm
Margo must be at the theatre, so I'll start the review thread.
Broadway.com is up; mixed-to-negative:
Broadway.com review
re: Jackie Mason: Freshly Squeezed reviews#1
Posted: 3/23/05 at 10:36pm
How does this guy keep getting backing? I mean, the critics just roast him time after time, and each show seems to close faster than the one before. I guess the costs of a one-man show are low...
re: Jackie Mason: Freshly Squeezed reviews#2
Posted: 3/23/05 at 10:40pmI have no idea. His shows are always terrible.
Broadway Star Joined: 11/22/04
re: Jackie Mason: Freshly Squeezed reviews#3
Posted: 3/23/05 at 10:41pmI'm just confused on where he gets his audience -- besides old jewish women...Even theatre people don't seem to take much interest in seeing the Jackie Mason shows...this is the one show on Broadway that I geniuinely have no intention or desire to see...
re: Jackie Mason: Freshly Squeezed reviews#4
Posted: 3/23/05 at 10:45pm
A surprise---A mostly positive review from the Associated Press.
AP Review
Mason Delights in Broadway Return#5
Posted: 3/23/05 at 10:49pm
"Mason Delights in Broadway Return"- AP
WOW- great review
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/21/04
Mason Delights in Broadway Return#6
Posted: 3/23/05 at 10:49pmI LOVE Jackie Mason. He's the funniest living comic, imo.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
Mason Delights in Broadway Return#7
Posted: 3/23/05 at 10:51pmI still can't understand how he got the money to put this show on after that DISASTER of a show, LAUGHING ROOM ONLY.
Mason Delights in Broadway Return#8
Posted: 3/23/05 at 11:06pmdamn is it that bad?
Mason Delights in Broadway Return#9
Posted: 3/23/05 at 11:59pmCan't wait for NYT's...do you think Brantley will even bother with this one, or will he send Isherwood or Jesse?
Mason Delights in Broadway Return#10
Posted: 3/24/05 at 3:56am
Brantley didn't bother. He sent Isherwood. I guess one could call this a positive review ..... sorta, if Mason and his schtick are already to your liking:
"Mr. Mason is so solicitous of his audiences' comfort, in fact, that he has sometimes shown a reluctance to affront them with any new jokes. "Freshly Squeezed" can be seen as a departure of sorts: it's being promoted as a feast of exclusively new material.
This is not false advertising. When Mr. Mason launches into his naughty mimicry of an incomprehensible Indian man, he's impersonating a doctor, for once, and not a taxi driver. This is progress! He has also retired from action the well-worn routines about the differences between Jews and gentiles. (Dare I confess I missed them?)
But the new material doesn't quite put Mr. Mason at the cutting edge of today's comedy. He devotes a long routine to the popularity of the Atkins diet and its many brethren, a well-trodden comic path. It's already late for gags about "The Gates," too. (Mr. Mason didn't care for them, imagining the architects of Central Park expressing satisfaction with their achievement, save for a nagging quibble: "Where can we put an orange curtain?") Other subjects: how boring the Oscars are, the ludicrous prices of room service, spurious lawsuits, President Bush's unfriendly relations with the English language, John Kerry in general.
But it's Mr. Mason's style and not his material that matters. The intensity of his fans' enjoyment doesn't really correspond to the sharpness or freshness of his observations. For them, Jackie Mason is funny; he doesn't have to act funny. Mr. Mason has so cunningly manufactured and marketed his dyspeptic comic persona - the herky-jerky movements used to embellish the routines, the voice that's like a sinus infection with a bad back - that he may soon be able to refine all actual jokes out of his act, and still slay 'em. That's chutzpah."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2005/03/24/theater/reviews/24maso.html
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
Mason Delights in Broadway Return#11
Posted: 3/24/05 at 4:19amYeah, I was going to start a thread asking how this guy gets money for his shows. They all flop. Period. Why can we get a solo show from Jackie Mason every year, but shows like BARE are in limbo? (wow, that example makes me look like a BARE freak... oh well)
Borscht For Gourmets#12
Posted: 3/24/05 at 6:25am
Here's Kissel's mostly positive review from the Daily News
Borscht For Gourmets
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Mason Delights in Broadway Return#13
Posted: 3/24/05 at 6:25amThe show is actually recorded legally & is available on DVD @ Footlight Records
Mason Delights in Broadway Return#14
Posted: 3/24/05 at 6:30am
Two-and-a-Half stars from Clive Barnes
New York Post Review
Mason Delights in Broadway Return#15
Posted: 3/24/05 at 6:42am
Newsday is mixed-to-positive
Newsday Review
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
Mason Delights in Broadway Return#16
Posted: 3/24/05 at 6:58ambjivie2, you're answering your own question. SOLO show versus BARE. Solo, one person. Writer, director, star, one person. Payroll? About 25 people. BARE, a payroll of about 80..
Mason Delights in Broadway Return#17
Posted: 3/24/05 at 7:14am
Im not sure which planet you people are living on "all his shows flop" where do you get that from. Laughing Room Only flopped thats it..
Jackie is one of Broadway's biggest stars, granted he dosnt have people rolling in the isles laughing like he used to but he new material is still funny and it will keep is army of fans happy....
Go and see this new show
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
Mason Delights in Broadway Return#18
Posted: 3/24/05 at 8:10am
I have to say that years ago when i saw the first show, I thought he was funny. I also liked his show a year before Laughing Room Only. But Laughing Room only was one of the most boring and offensive shows i have had to sit through.
I saw it on Thanksgiving and all i could think about was how thankful i was when it ended.
OY.
I don't really have any desire to see this show. Unless they are comped and even then i am not sure i could sit through it again.
His humor can be appealing but at times appalling. Jews seem to be his target audience.
Updated On: 3/24/05 at 08:10 AM
Swing Joined: 3/24/05
Mason Delights in Broadway Return#19
Posted: 3/24/05 at 11:16amI've been wondering that myself, but he's obviously got a following and he pleases a lot of people. I'm thinking it's not just geriatic types who like him. Or admit to it.
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