#51
Posted: 6/2/06 at 3:39pm
If anyone read my review posted on an earlier thread, )and even if you didn't, hehe) you should note that I wrote that Ms. Baranski is fine, but needs to grow into the part and let loose a little (which is what the Washingotn Post later said as well). I still believe that. It was VERY unfair that she got reviewed by not just local press but, of all people, Ben Brantley after only a few previews and no out of town tryouts. My point being, she is being asked to be the Mame everyone expects her to be, when of all Mames, she has had the least amount of time to perform before being reviewed.
I am positive that, had they waited two more weeks, she would have fared considerably better. By rushing opening night, the Kennedy Center has seriously jeopardized any possiblity of a Broadway transfer of their production. I really think this is very unfair to the cast. They are being expeceted to perform up to Broadway-par but are denied the luxury of a long-standing Broadway tradition (previews). Especially considering you can't really get out of town tryouts when you are a DC show, a longer preview period would have been in order. Sad to see such a potentially wonderful perfomance being prematurely put under the microscope.
I guess if it continues to do good business and pleasing the audience and if they take it to say, Boston and Chicago and get good reviews there, a Broadway transfer may still be possible.
Parting thoughts: get on the Chinatown bus and come see it!
I am positive that, had they waited two more weeks, she would have fared considerably better. By rushing opening night, the Kennedy Center has seriously jeopardized any possiblity of a Broadway transfer of their production. I really think this is very unfair to the cast. They are being expeceted to perform up to Broadway-par but are denied the luxury of a long-standing Broadway tradition (previews). Especially considering you can't really get out of town tryouts when you are a DC show, a longer preview period would have been in order. Sad to see such a potentially wonderful perfomance being prematurely put under the microscope.
I guess if it continues to do good business and pleasing the audience and if they take it to say, Boston and Chicago and get good reviews there, a Broadway transfer may still be possible.
Parting thoughts: get on the Chinatown bus and come see it!
The meat is always leaner on somebody else's dinner plate!
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