THERE ARE WORSE THINGS KATHLEEN MARSHALL COULD HAVE DONE: According to the NYT's Ben Brantley, this latest edition of Grease may not be the one that we want: "[I]f you last until intermission, you sit through more than an hour of a musical set in a high school that feels like a musical put on by a high school — and I don’t mean a high school of performing arts.... [T]here’s the numbing sense of performers of undeveloped talent conscientiously doing what they have been told to do and failing to claim their parts as their own."
Says Newsday of stars Laura Osnes and Max Crumm, "She sings with the sweet pop-lite voice cultivated by Disney heroines and can touch her nose with her leg while wearing Spandex. He can dance and has the haplessly endearing quality of an adolescent beagle. To be heard, however, his singing requires increasingly aggressive help from the sound technicians." The Hollywood Reporter complains, "this is a 'Grease' that only will be appreciated by young TV viewers who don't know any better," and all you need to know about Clive Barnes' NY Post review is that it's titled "Grease Frightening." The AP is more kind.
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