The Receptionist

[Lm4dham052]

Posted: 10/12/07 at 11:37pm

Did anyone go tonight??

[bschneid76]

Posted: 10/12/07 at 11:46pm

I am going on Sunday to see it. Should be fun.

[Bwayfan4]

Posted: 10/13/07 at 7:23am

Please post your thoughts...I am thinking of getting a ticket.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 10/13/07 at 8:34am

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Wasn't Lm4dham052 supposed to have seen it?

[Lm4dham052]

Posted: 10/13/07 at 10:27am

I did see it last night, but I wanted to see if anyone else had seen it before I posted my review.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 10/13/07 at 10:30am

Well how was it?

How long was it?

[Lm4dham05]

Posted: 10/13/07 at 10:50am

The play was about an hour and a half. The MTC is nice and small so there really is no bad seat.

I'm trying not to give anything away.....

The play itself was interesting, the whole play is set in this office, and you have no idea what kind of business it is. They go about their daily life, having normal conversations about family issues, about men issues. The entire time the audience is still trying to figure out what exactly this office is. The set was great, i thought it was minimal but was still powerful.

As far as the acting:

Jayne Houdyshell - was amazing, she's a brilliant actress, and really made the show. She hit the comedic timing great and switched gears and hit every dramatic turn. I really enjoyed her performance.

Kendra Kassebaum - after seeing her in Wicked twice and obviously this was a total change from the perky princess that she once was. I thought she was amazing and really shined in her performance. She gave it her all and it showed. She was able go get a laugh when she wanted it and was perky and beautiful as always.

Josh Charles - I've only seen him on the tv show 'Sports Night' so it was great seeing him in a more serious role. You can tell he was having fun with it at first while flirting with Loraine (Kendra's Character) and got more serious when the time came.

Robert Foxworth - Really wasn't too impressed, I don't think this play really gave him the outlet to show his talents. He's the first person you see when the lights go up but to me it didn't really go along with his character.

Although I wasn't too impressed with the story line the acting really did make the play work.

[GladysBumps]

Posted: 10/13/07 at 2:01pm

Thanks for the review. I'm going Sunday night, so maybe I'll have something to add. I kind of like they way Adam Brock's mind kicks over. "Five Flights" and "Swimming In The Shallows" were strangely charming little plays I was grateful I saw, largely because of the calibre of the actors involved.

Jeze, aren't playwrights blessed to have New York actors fill in the blacks for them? Can you imagine "American Sligo," or "Scarcity," or "100 Saints" or especially "Maritius" in some community theater in, say, Podunk?

As it is, I had a grand time at all the aforementioned, somewhat flawed, plays, largely because the actors were so emotionally connected to their characters, they completely inhabited them. In fact, as an actor myself, I went back to "Scarcity" (my favorite of the lot) three times, just to try and figure out how the actors were doing what they were doing. Each time I became so swept away by their work, (I guess this is what is meant by "suspension of disbelief.")I forgot to try to analyse it.

[Lm4dham052]

Posted: 10/13/07 at 2:04pm

I enjoyed Scarcity also

[RyToast1]

Posted: 10/13/07 at 10:25pm

I just got back from seeing it. It was good, but I'm still trying to figure out what it was all about. I'll post more tomorrow!

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

Posted: 11/9/07 at 1:07pm

Does anyone know if there is a rush policy for this show? I was looking on the City Center website and they have all seats listed at $75.

[LaCageAuxFollesFan2]

Posted: 11/9/07 at 1:25pm

I believe the student rush is for $25 day of at the Box Office. I've done it at MTC's City Center home for Defiance & Regrets Only.

[April Saul]

Posted: 11/9/07 at 2:35pm

And if you're not a student, I just got an e-mail from playbill.com with a $45 discount offer....

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 11/9/07 at 6:19pm

Incredible show.