Two reviews of shows on the Broad Way
Monday, December 10th, 2007 | No Comments »I 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.
