MCC's 'SH!T. MEET. FAN.' Cast Announced- Page 5

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 11/19/24 at 8:50am

Daily Beast is mixed.

Review: ‘S**t. Meet. Fan.’ Is the Drinks Party From Hell

POUR ONE OUT

Robert O’Hara’s all-star play, “S**t. Meet. Fan,” uses a perilous party game with cellphones to interrogate secrets, lies, and bigotry.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/review-st-meet-fan-is-the-drinks-party-from-hell/

[verywellthensigh]

Posted: 11/19/24 at 10:34am

 "Trigger warning: “This play is a blistering vulgar satire on Male Toxicity and White Privilege.”

Thank God he did this.  People need to be told what a play is supposed to be about it before anyone says one word.  This is truly elevating the art form.  

[Kad]

Posted: 11/19/24 at 10:49am

Considering everyone involved, it’s wild how quickly this became a non-event.

[MezzA101]

Posted: 11/19/24 at 11:46am

MemorableUserName said: "Didn't realize reviews dropped last night

Maya Phillips in NYT is mixed (and doesn't seem to say much?)

Review: Everyone at the Party Sees Your Texts. A New Play Revels in the Chaos.

Neil Patrick Harris, Jane Krakowski, Debra Messing and Constance Wu star in the vulgar and entertaining new work from Robert O’Hara.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/theater/****-meets-fan-review.html

"Blistering? Yeah. Vulgar? Certainly. And viciously entertaining. But when it comes to the show’s loftier ambitions — the “satire” part of “blistering vulgar satire” — its execution is edgy but not necessarily sharp.""

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/theater/****-meets-fan-review.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bE4.5h5W.CYKAyv1jytVA

 

 

 

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 11/20/24 at 7:01am

I saw this last Friday and the best way I could summarize my feelings is, "this felt like a very rough first draft." Everything seemed unpolished and not fully thought through. There is a lot of fat in the script that can and should be trimmed. Plenty of scenes come and go without any sort of context or resolution (BDSM scene as well as Debra Messing's character's big reveal which felt fully out of nowhere come to mind).
 

This thing just gets too far ahead of its skis and can't get itself back. Was fun seeing such a talented cast onstage (though I don't believe for a second they were all at school at the same time), but I just don't understand what it was trying to say. The last 20ish minutes show that the writers don't either.