singdaw - since you weren't around last night and may be skimming last night's post, I'm just repeating my request for a favor assuming you get to Skip's show today. It's just in the spirit of HHW being a place where it seems we encourage each other and each other's families - and the fact is that while different critics have loved different one-acts in the program Skip's on, it seemed that the same critics tended to dismiss the others - but there is no consitency as to which anyone liked, a likely result of the four pieces being very differnet from each other:
Larry and singdaw - I'm hoping to be at Skip's show tomorrow as well. Since Skip is actually performing in the show, and I know how strong opinions on here can get (see Bukowsical and PB&J), could I respectfully beg that any negative comments be held until after the show closes on August 28?
Frankly, the reviews of the one-act evening have been quite varied. Almost every review picked out a favorite among the evening's variety of one-acts (the musical by Eduardo Machado and Skip is the second piece in the second act, and is the last piece of the performance). And for the most part, when a critic liked one of the pieces above the others, that critic would go on about the piece he or she liked and then just run through the others. The theaterscene.net critic liked Skip's piece AFTERNOON TEA the most of the four; the Times really liked Leslie Lyle's RAIN, HEAVY AT TIMES the most, as did backstage; nytheatre.com liked Warren Leight's AMICI, ASCOLTAT (sp?) the best, etc And so it went.
