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#25LA BETE Reviews
Posted: 10/20/10 at 11:36amLOL. Let's take this outside.
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Roscoe
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#26LA BETE Reviews
Posted: 10/20/10 at 11:40amSorry, my mom's calling me, gotta run...
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#27LA BETE Reviews
Posted: 10/20/10 at 11:40amActually, 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.
#28LA BETE Reviews
Posted: 10/20/10 at 11:49amHmmm. Guess my memory failed me. You mean Roscoe was right all along?
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
#29LA BETE Reviews
Posted: 10/20/10 at 11:50amThis thread is already more entertaining than the play.
#30LA BETE Reviews
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.
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#31LA BETE Reviews
Posted: 10/20/10 at 1:53pmYeah, 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#32LA BETE Reviews
Posted: 10/22/10 at 11:55pmGreat production, terrible play, jarring tonal shift 3/4 of the way through.
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
willep
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/08
DryMartini
Stand-by Joined: 3/20/06
#35LA BETE Reviews
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#36LA BETE Reviews
Posted: 11/3/10 at 10:41amI saw the original in 1991 and I liked it. Blowing off the afternoon to see it today.
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willep
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/08
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