Let me try and explain this to you Insider. First of all to call Murray or that other one who's name I don't even recall from Broadway.com "critics", is an insult to the profession and that's saying alot. With all of the stories and reviews I've heard from personal friends who I trust deeply, with regards to Trailer Park and SLUT, there is simply no way to blame the actors for whatever flaws there are on their respective stages. If anything, it has been made abundantly clear, (esp in the case of TP) that the cast pulled off a super human feat by rising so far above the material and the incompetence of the director.
It is the job of a director and/or creative power infrastructure to get the right performances out of the cast in order to best convey the message of the material, whether that material is as deep as Les Miz, or as shallow as TP. You, because of your own personal feelings about one of the projects, have been going after the cast(s). Now, I don't expect you to know better but I do expect someone who even masquerades as a reviewer, like Murray, to in fact, know better. If you so much as have a pair of working eyes, you would NEVER make a comment about how David Josefberg would make a better "Adam" than Karl. I don't EVER need to see SLUT to know I'm right. That sentence was wrong on every level.
Besides, since the rest of the whole of the real world reads VARIETY and the TIMES, I wouldn't put any creedance to what a couple of disgruntled hacks have to say and I would truly hope the cast isn't the least bit bothered. I hope that answers your question.
Updated On: 10/3/05 at 05:33 PM
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