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chuckroThings I didn’t think I’d get to do: See Ellen Greene live on Broadway.
Reprising the role of Audrey that she created thirty years ago, Greene’s voice isn’t quite what it was but he comedic chops are even better. And boy oh boy, did the audience love seeing her. I haven’t been in an audience this appreciative in a very long time. It was the kind of show where the actors are clearly having so much fun, and the audience just ran with it.
I suspect the script-holding “staged reading” nature of the show was of most benefit to Jake Gyllenhaal, who flubbed at least two lines that the audience would notice and one other that I picked up just from knowing the show really well. He was a very serviceable nebbish/hipster Seymour, though.
Eddie Cooper was downright amazing as Audrey Two, standing out from an overall very strong cast. And getting a young boy to play/carry the small plant before it “grows” into Cooper was a bit of brilliance.
(Professional review with more details.)
Overall: Such a fun night of theater. And it reminded me that pretty much the entire score and the majority of the script is still locked in my memory from sixteen years ago—so should it be any surprise that Ellen Greene can recreate a role from 30 years ago so well?
Reprising the role of Audrey that she created thirty years ago, Greene’s voice isn’t quite what it was but he comedic chops are even better. And boy oh boy, did the audience love seeing her. I haven’t been in an audience this appreciative in a very long time. It was the kind of show where the actors are clearly having so much fun, and the audience just ran with it.
I suspect the script-holding “staged reading” nature of the show was of most benefit to Jake Gyllenhaal, who flubbed at least two lines that the audience would notice and one other that I picked up just from knowing the show really well. He was a very serviceable nebbish/hipster Seymour, though.
Eddie Cooper was downright amazing as Audrey Two, standing out from an overall very strong cast. And getting a young boy to play/carry the small plant before it “grows” into Cooper was a bit of brilliance.
(Professional review with more details.)
Overall: Such a fun night of theater. And it reminded me that pretty much the entire score and the majority of the script is still locked in my memory from sixteen years ago—so should it be any surprise that Ellen Greene can recreate a role from 30 years ago so well?
