Margo Channing Presents The Final "Review" thread of the Season! 110 In The Shade! — Page 2

Maybe someone who has times select can read it?

One more for the scrapbook, Audra.
Theatremania

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These reviews are killing me !!! I had bought tix to go back again in June, but couldnt wait anymore !! Loved this show !!

Praying that Audra does the Saturday Mat ! Just used the : 110BBX code---

$22 tic with the discount for this Saturday's matinee.

Well, Lizzie isn't supposed to be a beauty, but she isn't ugly either. She's just plain--average looking. Audra is definitely at least a couple notches above "average looking," but she's still "normal" looking enough to play the role I think.

Only 2 1/2 out of 4 stars.

Doesn't even like McDonald...loves Cullum...says literally nothing about the show itself.

Elysa Gardner - USA Today

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Updated On: 5/10/07 at 12:47 AM

Cullum is lookin' good in the reviews also.
Even Price is doing somewhat OK.

Munk if you were talking about Simon not liking Audra, read again...Hottest of all is Lizzie. Not hitherto her fan, I was completely won over. Contradictory impulses, some friskily outward, some tormentingly inhibited, crisscross McDonald's face, body and entire performance, now eliciting smiles, now tears. Hers is a dichotomy that sets her fine voice atremble, makes her merriment moving and her sorrow infectious. The slow stages of her awakening desire keep us as involved as the most dramatic car chase in a movie. It is soul made visible and audible.

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uncageg - Me neither.

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I can't access the Times review either, but the lead in line sums it up, I have a feeling...Ravishing of voice and Olympian of stature, Audra McDonald is an overwhelming presence in this underwhelming revival.

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talkinbroadway is POSTITIVE?

gag me with a spoon, i'll be darned.

saw it, agree with all the reviews, especially the one that called her the anti-diva. Especially in this show, she's an actress that makes SO many choices and gives SO many gifts to her fellow actors to work with - I felt like, in some scenes, she made her fellow actors look much better than they did without her. (which testaments to Steve Kazee's talent, because he took each gift of hers and gave two back - their chemistry really is awesome) For me, Audra was better than Christine. And to all those who say she's miscast, I really don't know where you're coming from. And the whole singing matching the speaking thing, I don't agree. Audra's voice does not need to be throaty and earthy and belty to fit Lizzie's character - I think her voice comes from that gorgeous soul - and that fear of lonliness Lizzie has inside. And honestly, the score fits her voice SO WELL. It is written for a lyric soprano, and it's being sung by one.

Updated On: 5/10/07 at 12:56 AM

"Ravishing of voice and Olympian of stature, Audra McDonald is an overwhelming presence"

What a great quote.

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Did anyone notice under the picture on the NY Times page online it says:

From left, John Cullum, Christopher Innvar and Audra McDonald in "110 in the Shade."

John Cullum is not in the picture. Maybe they are doing something to correct that and that's why the review won't come up?

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