| re: What went wrong with Oliver Platt in "Guys and Dolls"? | |
| Last Edit: Roman 01:49 pm EST 02/09/25 | |
| Posted by: Roman 01:34 pm EST 02/09/25 | |
| In reply to: What went wrong with Oliver Platt in "Guys and Dolls"? - tmwctd 01:15 pm EST 02/09/25 | |
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| I don’t remember him being any worse than that god-awful, misguided, appalling production. An unmitigated disaster. How do you screw up Guys & Dolls, FFS? Without question, one of the most thoroughly unrewarding, abysmal evenings I’ve ever spent in a theater. There wasn’t a single decent aspect or feature in the production. Was there a director? I still don’t know. You think I’m being hyperbolic? I’m not. It’s one thing to “exist” in the shadow of the glorious Zaks production (at that time, still in very fresh memory). It’s another to put together an evening so abysmal, it made you long for the worst high school production of Guys & Dolls you’ve ever had to sit through. Again, there was no director. No vision. Nothing fresh, nothing new, and absolutely no point to the thing. A final note: Mary Testa was so stupidly, wildly out of control and out of place, it was painful to see. Outrageous — and not at all in the good way. I was mortified. May she never be allowed near a classic piece of American Musical Theatre again. She was unforgivable. |
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