MCC's 'SH!T. MEET. FAN.' Cast Announced — Page 4

Tonight's 7 p.m. show and the talk back was cancelled before going on due to an illness. Lots of very annoyed patrons outside afterwards

Why would they wait until after showtime to cancel the performance on Tuesday, when they cancelled Sunday night's performance two hours before curtain?

Another huge beef with MCC-they won't reschedule subscribers after Dec. 1st, during the extension to 12/15, even though there are plenty of seats available up to the 15th. The seats left during the regular run are pretty awful. I'll think twice before re-subscribing next year.

Updated On: 10/24/24 at 11:09 AM

I hope he is alright!

Wouldn’t doubt if this was a quit/fired moment. He honestly seemed too young to be with the rest of the cast.

"SH!T. MEET. FAN." is the type of show you enjoy while you're seeing it. But when it's over, you think, "What the heck was that?"

I enjoyed all the performances, and I think the direction was good. Jokes landed. Newcomer Michael Oberholtzer was up to speed and fine in the role, but he looked about a decade younger than his frat brothers. I enjoyed my seat in the second row of the balcony, which is the last row. It's such a nice theater, very comfortable.

Updated On: 11/1/24 at 12:37 PM

I didn’t enjoy it while seeing it and left no impression on me afterward. The ending added nothing and seemed shoehorned in an effort to give it meaning: didn't work

The play is just broadly written play that it leaves nothing to mine. The characters are essentially archetypes or stereotypes lacking definition and the jokes often fall flat. There is tremendous talent on stage, but they have little to work with.

In the realm of alcohol infused plays (Woolf being the measure), this was just sloppy and lazy. It’s not a horrible play by any means, it’s just not very good.

Happy I only paid 90 bucks to see it, so there’s that!

Health Concern? So glad he’s feeling better.

DramaTeach said: "Health Concern?So glad he’s feeling better."

Wow. I bet that's going into production some time tomorrow? Next week?

Saw this yesterday and totally forgot to drop a review.

I agree with Boys in the Band as a comparison, and I thought it was solid but this was a crazy caliber of cast to have on such simple material.

I enjoyed it in the moment right up until the last 25 minutes. It was trying to comment on too many things and then the ending just didn't work. Cut the entire "All 3 on their phones, also they talk about having a no phone hangout" thing because it's beyond confusing. I'd rather the show not have all been a dream.

I got so many great laughs, especially at the Mike bit. The BDSM scene definitely should be addressed and that could fit into the last 15 mins

I think this would be a cool transfer, but it definitely needs work. Also the huge Next to Normal style set would be amazing if we didn't have so much time walking, I liked the Roommate's set because it mitigated that but this one doesn't even try to.

shocked by how incredibly bad i thought this was. it has NO IDEA what it wants to be, with that left turn towards Serious Pointmaking at the end, but I could forgive all that if the lines werent so stunted and unfunny. Even the name of this play it irritating- an attempt to be shocking for no real reason.

maybe it was an off night? The show started a full 20 minutes late due to "technical difficulties" which is confounding since there seems to be little that is technically difficult about the show. NPH was out today, and his understudy was impossible to understand half the time, and maybe that threw everything off kilter? I am guessing here because with such an incredible cast, surely something must have drawn them to this mess?

The S&M scene is nonsensical both in terms of tone/plot, and also given the characters involved. I didnt mind the "alternative" ending at all, though I'm not sure what is accomplished by bookending the show with a totally ancillary and irritating character.

The show takes off here and there, coming close to the best kind of stage farce, and its hard to resist these performances. Tillman is wildly talented, and I hope this launches him to bigger and better things, but he's in a different play than everyone else even before hes asked to deliver some Serious Drama- which he does expertly. Oberholzer continues to deliver Jackass beautifully.

Messing got the most laughs, her double takes and reaction-shtick was perfect, and Wu also acquits herself quite nicely. Krakowski is sort of the straight-woman lead, in a way, and I wish she was given more interesting stuff to do, but its a joy to just be in the same room with her and she seems to be aging in reverse. Speaking of age: we are meant to believe these four men were all in a fraternity together, even though they read *decades* apart?

Empty seats tonight, and a muted audience response (some outright snoring near me), makes me wonder if this will transfer.

Deadline mostly praises the cast

‘SH*T. Meet. Fan.’ Off Broadway Review: A Dangerous Game Played By All-Star Cast

https://deadline.com/2024/11/****-meet-fan-off-broadway-review-1236176901/

"O’Hara’s rather rote direction does his play no favors, though he gets terrific performances from his talented cast. Messing, in particular, scores in a go-for-broke comedic performance, and Oberholtzer – a late replacement for Billy Magnussen, who dropped out for health reasons – will remind anyone who saw his Tony-nominated performance in Take Me Out just how powerful an actor he is. Wu subtly demonstrates how her Asian character likely has more in common with Logan than the white majority gathered here, and Harris and Krakowski effectively tap into their sitcom roots while adding some sinister undercurrents – a description that, come to think of it, pretty much applies to the play itself."

The Wrap is negative

‘Sh-t. Meet. Fan.’ Off Broadway Review: Phone Games Upend a Night With Debra Messing, Jane Krakowski and Neil Patrick Harris

Robert O’Hara’s new comedy lets fly a lot of crap about horny white people

https://www.thewrap.com/****-meet-fan-off-broadway-review-debra-messing-neil-patrick-harris/

"“S.M.F.” lives up to that title. The play delivers far fewer laughs than a decent production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” But what it lacks in genuine wit – many of O’Hara’s zingers land flat — this s–t show compensates with sheer outrageousness as the phone calls quickly turn X-rated. O’Hara skewers white privilege and the pathetic sex fantasies it unleashes. In the process, he creates a super-stud character that borrows a lot from Mandingo."

Theatrely is mixed

Drugs, Alcohol & Miserable Marriages: SH*T. MEET. FAN. — Review

https://www.theatrely.com/post/drugs-alcohol-miserable-marriages-****-meet-fan----review

"As a predictable, foul-mouthed comedy, SH*T. Meet. Fan. could work, especially with this top-tier cast, but it’s clear O’Hara has set his sights higher as both playwright and director. As his body of work will indicate, he is one of our best creative minds working in the theater today. SH*T. Meet. Fan. doesn’t rise to the level we’ve come to expect."