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

[kyle.]

Posted: 5/9/07 at 10:57pm

Nope

Hopefully soon. I love how we are all checking the website and waiting. LOSERS!!!! :)

[courtnyj]

Posted: 5/9/07 at 11:01pm

Maybe someone who has times select can read it?

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 5/9/07 at 11:42pm

One more love letter...
Newsday

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 5/9/07 at 11:48pm

One more for the scrapbook, Audra.
Theatremania

[kyle.]

Posted: 5/9/07 at 11:59pm

God bless Newsday's photo gallery!

[Testing1232]

Posted: 5/10/07 at 12:03am

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.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/10/07 at 12:04am

I think some of the reviewer's get and some miss that Lizzie "feels" unattractive because she has a strong will and takes no Man's sh*t.
She is not an unattractive Woman. She has two men wanting her, it's the underlying passage of age and that she has not accepted a "man" to settle down with, that make her and others feel she is an "OLD MAID"
Congrats to the amazing Audra on these reviews.

Updated On: 5/10/07 at 12:04 AM

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 5/10/07 at 12:24am

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.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 5/10/07 at 12:43am

John Simon is positive.
John Simon - Bloomberg

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 5/10/07 at 12:47am

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

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

[uncageg]

Posted: 5/10/07 at 12:50am

The Times is up...

http://theater.nytimes.com/pages/theater/index.html

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/10/07 at 12:51am

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

[uncageg]

Posted: 5/10/07 at 12:52am

For some reason, I can't open the times review.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 5/10/07 at 12:53am

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.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 5/10/07 at 12:53am

Mixed to positive on the show, rave for McDonald
Michael Sommers - Newark Star-Ledger

[B3TA07]

Posted: 5/10/07 at 12:54am

uncageg - Me neither.

[kyle.]

Posted: 5/10/07 at 12:54am

I cannot open the Times review either. Must be an error on the site.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 5/10/07 at 12:55am

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.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 5/10/07 at 12:56am

I've been trying to open it for literally 10 minutes now.

Leen: I wasn't talking about Simon.

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 5/10/07 at 12:56am

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

[uncageg]

Posted: 5/10/07 at 12:56am

Thank God it is only going on 11:00 here in Denver! I will wait for that times review to come up!

[B3TA07]

Posted: 5/10/07 at 12:58am

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

What a great quote.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 5/10/07 at 1:03am

Strap, now it makes sense since you added the link to USA TODAY. Without that it seemed as if you were commenting on your last post.

[uncageg]

Posted: 5/10/07 at 1:19am

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?

[jbdc]

Posted: 5/10/07 at 1:24am

Elysa Gardner has revealed herself to be a raging b*tch. I don't think I've ever begruged a critic before for disagreeing with my opinion, but I am disgusted by what Ms. Gardner is passing off as journalism.

It's not even a review. It's her writing about how she doesn't think Audra McDonald deserves the acclaim she gets. It absolutely valid to hold such an opinion if that's how you feel, but to allegedly review something and say that is just unprofessional.

Nothing about plot, staging, design, the other leads, the music?

So, message boarders... E-mail USA Today about what a crock of sh*t Ms. Gardner's article is.

Then we'll see who's overrated.