LA BETE Reviews- Page 2

[mallardo]

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

LOL. Let's take this outside.

[Roscoe]

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

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

[bjh2114]

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]

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

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

[Jordan Catalano]

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

This thread is already more entertaining than the play.

[Bettyboy72]

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.

[Jordan Catalano]

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]

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

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

[americanboy99]

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

Tonal.

SUCH a hilarious word.

[willep]

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

Good use of verbobos.

[DryMartini]

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]

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.

[willep]

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

Hope you enjoy it, wexy!