Lucky Guy Reviews

[NewYorkTheater]

Posted: 4/1/13 at 8:17pm

Lucky Guy, the play by Nora Ephron marking the Broadway debut of Tom Hanks, has opened tonight at the Broadhurst and is scheduled to run through June 16th.

My review (linked below) begins:
“Journalists aren’t nearly as interesting as they think they are,” David Eisenhower once said, a quote that Nora Ephron cited favorably in her final media column for Esquire in 1977. This was before Ephron became a movie director and screenwriter, and long before she wrote “Lucky Guy,” her play about the late tabloid columnist Mike McAlary....

Lucky Guy Review: Tom Hanks' Broadway Favor to Nora Ephron

[NewYorkTheater]

Posted: 4/1/13 at 8:42pm

Backstage gives it a B-
Flimsy ‘Lucky Guy’ Relies on Hanks for Heft

[NewYorkTheater]

Posted: 4/1/13 at 9:05pm

Associated Press: Likes Hanks, not the show so much

"the play leaves little lasting impression, like a day-old tabloid."
Associated Press review

[NewYorkTheater]

Posted: 4/1/13 at 9:34pm

Hollywood Reporter
"A tender valentine to the scrappy dinosaurs of pre-Internet tabloid journalism."


The Hollywood Reporter

[chanel]

Posted: 4/1/13 at 10:15pm

Villagevoice.com is quite appreciative.


http://blogs.villagevoice.com/dailymusto/2013/04/tom_hanks_in_no.php

[ooblogway]

Posted: 4/1/13 at 10:26pm

Brantley doesn't love it
Old-School Newsman, After Deadline

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/1/13 at 10:28pm

Just another reminder that Michael Musto does blog related theater chat, Michael Feingold is the Voice's theater critic.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/1/13 at 11:33pm

BWW wasn't talking at all about this show while it was in previews.


Could it be that even celebrity isn't enough to get people to see a show anymore?

[Cheetos Rivera]

Posted: 4/1/13 at 11:57pm

"Brantley doesn't love it"

Did you read the review? It sure sounds like he did. Not quite a rave, but I would hardly sum up that he 'doesn't love it.'

[bjh2114]

Posted: 4/2/13 at 12:10am

"Doesn't love it" doesn't mean he hated it. But he definitely didn't rave about it. He thought it was fine.

[drewmangroup]

Posted: 4/2/13 at 12:31am

Feels like Tom Hanks is all but assured a Tony nomination while a win is not out of the question though unlikely. (Believe me, I know Tracy Letts is many leagues above but his show closed and he isn't telling DeNiro and Carrey to do Broadway). Certainly a contender for Best Play in a seemingly weaker field.

[broadwaydevil]

Posted: 4/2/13 at 12:39am

Could it be that even celebrity isn't enough to get people to see a show anymore?

Except for the sell outs and 1.3 million dollar grosses in previews for a straight play. It's quite clear Tom Hanks is a name that sells.

Certainly a contender for Best Play in a seemingly weaker field.

I would say Vanya is the more obvious front-runner of plays that have opened. I'd be pretty surprised if Lucky Guy won though a nomination is probably pretty likely.

[supersam1026]

Posted: 4/2/13 at 1:30am

I think it will get a nomination, but right now it seems that Vanya is the front-runner. I think this production would be much more interested in winning Best Actor than Best Play...

[dramamama611]

Posted: 4/2/13 at 5:54am

"BWW wasn't talking at all about this show while it was in previews.

Could it be that even celebrity isn't enough to get people to see a show anymore?"


There aren't a lot of PLAYS here that get very much attention, regardless. Look for threads on Cat, Virginia Woolf, The Other Place, and even Vanya... They are minimal, and get buried pretty quickly.


(And then re-read b'way devil's response.)