The Best Man
The Best Man
Chorus Member Joined: 3/18/09
Joined: 12/31/69
The Best Man #2
Posted: 1/11/12 at 2:08pm
I'm looking forward to this. Don't know much about the play, but I'd see that cast do pretty much anything!!
I'm interested to see how this will be marketed. Will it even really need it?
The Best Man #2
Posted: 1/11/12 at 3:15pm^ You're so right! This cast is like, a clusterf*** of celebs. I'm excited!!!
Understudy Joined: 5/15/07
The Best Man #3
Posted: 3/31/12 at 10:00amI saw it this week and I LOVED it. Laroquette is giving a great performance and James Earl Jones is fantastic. Has anyone else seen it?
The Best Man #4
Posted: 3/31/12 at 10:34am
I liked it well enough. The play is preachy and wildly idealistic, but at the same time still topical... sadly. Especially the references to birth control. Christ. It's fifty years old and still topical?!
James Earl Jones slurs so many of his lines into unintelligibility.
The design aspects of the show are incredible.
The cast is uniformly fine and the audience seemed to eat it up.
The Best Man #5
Posted: 3/31/12 at 2:05pmI also loved it, and it is still scarily topical. You don't know whether to laugh or cry about that, but it's done in such a witty way that everybody's laughing--big laughs, with applause on some lines. I especially liked the references to how many people are uncomfortable with obviously intelligent would-be leaders. Also, I enjoyed the statement about the need for a candidate to profess strong religious beliefs whether he really has them or not. The character Jones plays says something about the need to pour God all over everything, like ketchup. Incidentally, I had no trouble understanding him; but, then, I was a Navy brat who grew up around a lot of accents like the one he's using. I was so impressed with the play that I saw it twice while in New York last week and will see it again when I return at the end of May.
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