LA BETE Reviews- Page 2

[mallardo]

LA BETE Reviews#25

Posted: 10/20/10 at 11:36am

LOL. Let's take this outside.

Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!

[Roscoe]

LA BETE Reviews#26

Posted: 10/20/10 at 11:40am

Sorry, my mom's calling me, gotta run...

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[bjh2114]

LA BETE Reviews#27

Posted: 10/20/10 at 11:40am

Actually, malladro, if you go back and read the London reviews (there is a thread here on BWW), you will find that they were very mixed with consistent praise for Rylance. The reviews were very similar to the ones here on Broadway.

[mallardo]

LA BETE Reviews#28

Posted: 10/20/10 at 11:49am

Hmmm. Guess my memory failed me. You mean Roscoe was right all along?

Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!

[Jordan Catalano]

LA BETE Reviews#29

Posted: 10/20/10 at 11:50am

This thread is already more entertaining than the play.

[Bettyboy72]

LA BETE Reviews#30

Posted: 10/20/10 at 1:24pm

Jordan, I'm surprised you didn't like it. We usually agree on alot(especially who we hate)! :)

I really adored this show and thought the ending was very powerful, helped by the stunning stagecraft.

"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

[Jordan Catalano]

LA BETE Reviews#31

Posted: 10/20/10 at 1:53pm

Yeah, the ending was very powerful, but it in no way had anything to do with the past hour and fourty five minutes that I just seen. So when I looked back on it, it just seemed like a last ditch effort to make the play appear deeper than it was.

[Yankeefan007]

LA BETE Reviews#32

Posted: 10/22/10 at 11:55pm

Great production, terrible play, jarring tonal shift 3/4 of the way through.

[americanboy99]

LA BETE Reviews#33

Posted: 10/23/10 at 9:04am

Tonal.

SUCH a hilarious word.

[willep]

LA BETE Reviews#34

Posted: 10/23/10 at 12:19pm

Good use of verbobos.

[DryMartini]

LA BETE Reviews#35

Posted: 11/3/10 at 10:26am

I just have to weigh in and say that I loved Mark Rylance. I thought he was okay in "Boeing Boeing", but this really impressed me. I know a lot of ink has been spilled about his first monologue, but it did truly blow me away. I also think David Hyde Pierce is not getting enough praise for playing the "straight man" to Rylance. It takes a lot to hold the stage with a performance like that. Yes, Rylance goes a little base with his humor, but so did Shakespeare. A great play? Not sure. But a great performance IMHO.

Also, I've always adored Joanna Lumley, so maybe I walked in with a little more love in my heart for the show than usual. I love that she sits in the balcony with the audience.

[wexy]

LA BETE Reviews#36

Posted: 11/3/10 at 10:41am

I saw the original in 1991 and I liked it. Blowing off the afternoon to see it today.

'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'

[willep]

LA BETE Reviews#37

Posted: 11/3/10 at 10:45am

Hope you enjoy it, wexy!