"I appreciate the thoroughness of your review"
Hmmm...
First off, this is not a review. You can only write a review after a piece opens. It's actually suggestions, like them or not, for what would better the play considering it hasn't opened yet. You can't expect people who have seen a show in previews not to talk about it.
I have looked it over again for meanness, The Distinctive Baritone. It's just sincere. Moises Kaufman's writing I like, by the way. His Gross Indecency was well written and well-directed.
There is no hatred in it, it's a heartsick disappointment because I love very well-done Shakespeare and perhaps have come to expect it. Especially after seeing the masterwork of Brian Bedford in his "All the world's a stage" part last summer which was worth a line to see.
It is only because I want these productions to be really worth seeing, for everyone, that I have written this in the first place.
But you can also see that others felt the same way about the performance, and as it hasn't opened yet, there is still time to change things.
There is more for me to lose from writing this than to gain, such as unhappy comments from yourself, whom I like and respect.
You know if my review makes her angry, and she uses that fire and submerges it into her performance, if she digs a little deeper, maybe she will become Lady M.
As it stands it only reminds of the disappointment I felt sitting through the performance of Andre Braugher as Henry V, wherein "our fellowship" became "our fellow ship."
Updated On: 6/17/06 at 12:19 AM
