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Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#4Looped
Posted: 3/20/10 at 1:52pm
Well, it's good we all have different opinions, I enjoyed the play, but it dragged at times and it is true that the jokes kinda get old after 20 mins.
The 2nd act has a twist, so it is worth staying. But then again, the play seems like a regional play at times. If it wasn't for the fact that Valerie Harper stars in it, it would have never made it to Broadway. It's very gay and campy, and you said you are a straight male, so it's not a play I would recommend to any heterosexual male, EVER!
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angelplays
Stand-by Joined: 3/11/10
#7Looped
Posted: 3/21/10 at 12:21am
"And please... TWIST??? YOU CALL THAT A TWIST? You need to see more theatre, people"
LOL!!! Well, I don't know what to call it, the play kinda shifts a little bit, it's not all about Tallullah anymore.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
#8Looped
Posted: 3/21/10 at 12:22amThe 'twist' is rather predictable. I nearly walked out at intermission, but I was at least laughing. It really needed to be cut to 90 min.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
#9Looped
Posted: 3/21/10 at 12:34amI honestly didn't LOVE the play by any means, but I have seen a lot worse. I tend to like big casts in plays and musicals and this play has only 2 characters and a half.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
TalkinLoud
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/09
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#13Looped
Posted: 3/21/10 at 10:43amI saw this at Arena Stage, and I thought the point is it's SUPPOSED to feel overly long. It took Bankhead 3 sessions to record the one line. If they made it a neat little one act, it would be missing the point completely. The audience is supposed to get just as frustrated with her as the the staff trying to deal with her.
Yes that's me. No, it's not a Rent homage.
#14Looped
Posted: 3/22/10 at 10:30am
Yes, all you missed was that a cardboard character played by an exceptionally hammy actor got far too much attention in Act 2. I sat there trying to come up with some justification for Tallullah to be so interested in this droopy bore. Why was she so insistent that he tell her his banal tale?
I still think Harper did a terrific performance, though. The play itself was, as mentioned earlier, pure dinner theatre.
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