#26
Posted: 1/28/12 at 1:21pm
Some of his comments about Danny Radcliffe and "HTS" were surprisingly scathing. Not that I disagreed with him...
What Is Ben Brantley's Worst Review? — Page 2
#27
Posted: 1/28/12 at 2:03pm
Jordan, even when I disagree with him, I still think he makes valid points. I.E. I love Jekyll and Hyde, but not because I think it's a well-crafted musical 
#28
Posted: 1/28/12 at 8:22pm
The first thing to spring to mind was his Little Mermaid review, though I'm sure he's written others that are equally scathing.
"Ms. Zambello, best known as an adventurous director of operas, rarely lets jokes, songs or set pieces register clearly. And the impression is often of costumed employees from the Magic Kingdom of Disney World, wandering around and occasionally singing to entertain visiting children.
In like manner, most of the performers approach their characters with the forced jocularity of actors marking time in a theme park until a better job comes along. Ms. Boggess, who has a penny-whistle soprano, and Mr. Palmer look uncannily like regulation cartoon drawings of a pretty princess and prince, with all the attendant sex appeal and personality."
"Ms. Zambello, best known as an adventurous director of operas, rarely lets jokes, songs or set pieces register clearly. And the impression is often of costumed employees from the Magic Kingdom of Disney World, wandering around and occasionally singing to entertain visiting children.
In like manner, most of the performers approach their characters with the forced jocularity of actors marking time in a theme park until a better job comes along. Ms. Boggess, who has a penny-whistle soprano, and Mr. Palmer look uncannily like regulation cartoon drawings of a pretty princess and prince, with all the attendant sex appeal and personality."
#29
Posted: 1/29/12 at 1:43pm
Brantley "insightful"? That's hilarious!
#30
Posted: 1/29/12 at 2:06pm
The Roundabout BYE BYE BIRDIE review is rough.
http://theater.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/theater/reviews/16byebye.html
http://theater.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/theater/reviews/16byebye.html
#31
Posted: 1/29/12 at 10:10pm
And here it is, looming like a giant stuffed bat on a stick, the easiest target on Broadway. 'Dracula, the Musical,' which sets the familiar tale of old snaggletooth to the familiar music of Frank Wildhorn, creaked open last night at the Belasco Theater with all the animation, suspense and sex appeal of a Victorian waxworks in a seaside amusement park.
Expectations were exceedingly low for this latest offering from the unstoppable Mr. Wildhorn -- the composer of the expensively dressed clunkers 'Jekyll and Hyde,' 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' and 'The Civil War' -- and expectations have not been disappointed. So go ahead. Take your shots. Say something, if you must, about toothlessness or bloodlessness or the kindness of hammering stakes into the hearts of undead shows. Think of every appropriate variation you can involving the verbs to bite and to suck.
His Dracula review tops them all, in my opinion.
http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9505e4df1f3ff933a1575bc0a9629c8b63
Expectations were exceedingly low for this latest offering from the unstoppable Mr. Wildhorn -- the composer of the expensively dressed clunkers 'Jekyll and Hyde,' 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' and 'The Civil War' -- and expectations have not been disappointed. So go ahead. Take your shots. Say something, if you must, about toothlessness or bloodlessness or the kindness of hammering stakes into the hearts of undead shows. Think of every appropriate variation you can involving the verbs to bite and to suck.
His Dracula review tops them all, in my opinion.
http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9505e4df1f3ff933a1575bc0a9629c8b63
I'll take the wind and soar.
#32
Posted: 1/31/12 at 9:07am
That one was particularly vicious!
#33
Posted: 1/31/12 at 11:11am
I hated him for his ADDAMS FAMILY review and presuming to put himself in the casts shoes and saying they were thinking those horrible things.
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
#34
Posted: 1/31/12 at 11:38am
You don't like him because he panned the Addams Family? You must not like most critics...
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