Two reviews of shows on the Broad Way
Monday, December 10th, 2007I agree with this one, although more should have been made of Jimmi Simpson’s impressive performance in Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention:
This information-crammed, surface-skimming biodrama about the creators of television suggests nothing so much as a classroom presentation on a seven-figure budget.
The show certainly deserves high marks for all those traits that exacting schoolteachers hold dear: conciseness, legibility, correct use of topic sentences, evidence in defense of two sides of an argument and colorful examples to support the main thesis.
This one I don’t agree with, save for the reference to “aesthetic overkill” (From Doris to Darlene):
There’s also real insight under Harrison’s stylized surfaces. Although he loves these hopeless musical romantics, he doesn’t romanticize them. He understands that passion - musical and otherwise - often feels closer to nausea, and that a creative fire can be a fickle flicker at best.
We’re seeing August: Osage County this weekend, which we’re both very excited about about which we are very excited. For good reason, it sounds like.
