MCNEAL Reviews- Page 2

[JasonC3]

Posted: 10/1/24 at 6:29pm

If you ever get hassled, just quote them the membership benefits listed on the LCT website, the last of which states: "The luxury of exchanging or refunding tickets up to 72 hours prior to the performance."

https://www.lct.org/membership/benefits/

They aren't doing us a favor by refunding nor is it a one-time courtesy lol.

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 10/1/24 at 6:47pm

I find it fascinating that Downey and his team thought the script was good enough to be worthy of his long-awaited Broadway debut. Maybe they don’t have enough experience with plays to recognize a good script from a bad one, and were sold on the prestige of the playwright and director? Very strange.

[CoffeeBreak]

Posted: 10/1/24 at 8:52pm

yes.  be prepared for debessonnet to run LCT into the ground.  The City Center staff, casts and board are more than thankful for her departure.

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 10/28/24 at 8:39pm

RDJ: " I intend to sue all future executives" who try to recreate my likeness using AI

“I don’t envy anyone who has been over-identified with the advent of this new phase of the information age. The idea that somehow it belongs to them because they have these super huge start-ups is a fallacy,” Downey told Swisher about figures like Altman. “The problem is when these individuals believe that they are the arbiters of managing this but meanwhile are wanting and/or needing to be seen in a favorable light. That is a massive ****ing error. It turns me off and makes me not want to engage with them because they are not being truthful.”

[BoringBoredBoard40]

Posted: 11/8/24 at 2:47am

Does anyone know if RDJ has been stagedooring at all, or Andrea Martin?

 

[Capeguy]

Posted: 11/8/24 at 9:02am

I saw it last night. It seems that there were too many unresolved plots crammed into 90 minutes. It started with a premise that I thought was intriguing but it went nowhere. It seemed the play just stopped without much of an ending.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 11/8/24 at 9:17am

I just felt like it WANTED to be important, say something of the evils of AI, but just didn't.  After all, the main character has made a successful career of plagiarizing.

 

A big nothing burger.

[schubox]

Posted: 11/8/24 at 9:43pm

Saw this tonight and liked it a lot more than I was expecting based on all the general negativity I’ve seen on here and elsewhere. Not sure it was saying anything as important as it thought it was, but I enjoyed it for what it was 

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 11/17/24 at 11:19am

schubox said: "Saw this tonight and liked it a lot more than I was expecting based on all the general negativity I’ve seen on here and elsewhere. Not sure it was saying anything as important as it thought it was, but I enjoyed it for what it was"

Agreed. I went in with the lowest expectations and enjoyed it, more or less. The performances are up and down wonderful, and a real tour de force for RDJ who is in every scene. I really hope he makes a return visit to Broadway and perhaps gets some nominations come awards season. 

The less that could be said about the play the better. So many themes (alcoholism, parental relations, cheating) and not one of them flushed out. I wondered at the end if the point of the play was that it resembles a script with each of these themes thrown together by AI staring RDJ. 

Overall, a better experience than my evening performance of Death Becomes Her.

[inception]

Posted: 11/17/24 at 5:00pm

Play Esq. said: " 
Overall, a better experience than my evening performance of Death Becomes Her."

Did something bad happen? Or did you just not enjoy it?

[quizking101]

Posted: 11/17/24 at 6:30pm

BoringBoredBoard40 said: "Does anyone know if RDJ has been stagedooring at all, or Andrea Martin?

"

I highly doubt it. Lincoln Center has so many exit points that he is very likely gone by the time before find the stage door. 

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 11/17/24 at 7:14pm

inception said: "Play Esq. said: "
Overall, a better experience than my evening performance of Death Becomes Her."

Did something bad happen? Or did you just not enjoy it?"

Nothing happened…on stage or in the audience 😂

I was so dreadful bored during Death. I would have left at intermission but I was with three friends. They all told me later, they would have left had I brought it up.