Ben Brantley @BenjBrantley
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The best new American play I've seen in I-don't-know-how-long; the most miraculously transformative revival of a musical I've seen perhaps ever -- this a.m. both were gratifyingly heaped with Tony nominations. Oh, of course I mean "Stereophonic" and "Merrily We Roll Along."
Most thrilling news: The rose-breasted grosbeak has made its seasonal debut in our back yard. Colors so crisp they make your eyes tear. (Stock picture, alas -- my grosbeak has not been an obliging model.)
Happy birthday to Ann-Margret, who started vibrating professionally more than six decades ago and rivals even Elvis in kineticism. Best intro to A-M intensity: the title song of "Bye Bye Birdie." Also a great cartoon ("Flintstones") and a very real actor ("Carnal Knowledge").
Happy birthday to Anouk Aimee, who is perhaps best known for the mainstream makeout hit "A Man and a Woman." But, ah, the startling glory of her in the earlier "Lola," "8 1/2" and "La Dolce Vita," in which she embodied a new cerebral, insouciant chic, with the best eyewear ever.
Happy birthday to Carol Burnett, the warmest of comic performers, who exudes good will even in sharpest satiric mode. Her parodies of classic Hollywood movies honed both my sense of humor and nascent critical sensibility. And nobody ever wore a set of curtains with more elan.
"The actors’ relationship to all this furniture is lackluster, normative; they give a lot of their energy away to chairs." Sarah Holdren expertly diagnoses the malaise of the latest "Uncle Vanya" revival.vulture.com/article/uncle-…
Blood-dappled military horses go mad at Buckingham Palace in London; the windmill blades of the Moulin Rogue fall to the ground in Paris; a giant, decaying orange stops traffic in lower Manhattan...These are the sings of the end days as foretold by the prophets of yore.
A sharp, necessary response to the Venice Biennale and to the creatively inhibiting culture that shaped it -- from Jason Farago in the New York Times. nytimes.com/2024/04/24/art…
Happy birthday to a woman who cooed, exclaimed, kvetched and sang into my ear for more than 48 hours last year via her inimitably phrased self-narrated audio memoir. Her name is Barbra, as if you didn't know. And I went through a tough withdrawal when her book came to an end.
One thing that shouldn't get lost in the general praise for Andrew Scott and "Ripley": that great moment in the last episode when we take the full measure of Dakota Fanning's Marge, as she registers she is being photographed by a paparazzo and there's something in it for her.
It is (possibly) the birthday of William Shakespeare, by whose words and characters I have measured my life since I was a child. He is in the air I breathe, and not a day goes by when I don't quote him to myself. That's probably true for you, too, whether or not you know it.
There are reasons, like the bluest sky ever, to get up in the morning
Whether raised in exaltation, lamentation or condemnation, it is a voice that makes a theatergoer's heart beat faster. Happy birthday to Patti Lupone, who raises the adrenaline level of every stage she occupies, and makes live theater very alive indeed. images.app.goo.gl/z4R9DWLcsohuXD…
Ah, to live inside a Warner Bros movie with the sunny Lane sisters, where no one takes it amiss if you neck with your sibling's husband (blame it on the moonlight), and the family home you thought had been razed rematerializes with its picket fence intact: "Four Mothers" on TCM.
"I'm so depressed/ I act like it's my birthday, every day." Celebrity still plays out like a Jacqueline Susann novel.
I rarely see network TV now, but I just stumbled upon a show in which the cast consisted of famous actors who were more or less recognizably who they used to be. But almost to a person, they had faces that had been turned into masks. It was like watching a new kind of kabuki.
It's Tom's world. The reason that "Ripley" really creeps under the skin is that it presents life as its protagonist sees it -- coldly, acquisitively, contemptuously, paranoically. Its sharp beauty is as without affect as Andrew Scott's perfectly calculated dead-eyed performance.
Happy birthday, Julie Christie, the great screen beauty of the Swinging 60s, whose surface radiance rippled with restlessness. An Oscar winner for "Darling," she also gave us the ultimate image of retreat from brutal grasping life in the final closeup of "McCabe and Mrs. Miller."
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@BenjBrantley Can’t wait to see @stereobway and @MerrilyOnBway!
@spanenyc @BenjBrantley Get ready. Show’s about to start.
@BenjBrantley And Sonia needs to bring both to London with immediate effect. Please. Thank you. (Not) The end.
1 May 1941 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Julika Remenyi, was born. In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
@BenjBrantley well deserved for cast and shows.💚
@BenjBrantley I'm seeing Stereophonic tomorrow. Merrily, I've seen, maybe, four times. Yes, I'd go again.
30 April 1910 | Czech Jew, Josef Frank, was born in Prostějov. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 September 1944. He did not survive.
@BenjBrantley Very satisfying to see them both get so much recognition today.
@BenjBrantley @SketchieSethie I really liked Teeth.
@BenjBrantley @Halcyon270 I saw it in Chicago and it’s wonderful. Be prepared to cry, really surprised it did not get a book nomination.
@BenjBrantley For an art form that is supposedly dying, the post-pandemic years sure are looking like a golden age
congrats to anyone working in theater who hasn't given up. THATS the award.
@BenjBrantley That's good to know! When we go to NYC in May, these are two of the three that we have tickets for. The third is Appropriate.
So glad for both. Fantastic productions!
The best new American play I've seen in I-don't-know-how-long; the most miraculously transformative revival of a musical I've seen perhaps ever -- this a.m. both were gratifyingly heaped with Tony nominations. Oh, of course I mean "Stereophonic" and "Merrily We Roll Along."
I wonder if Sondheim and Prince have seen it together in heaven… 🧡🩵
The best new American play I've seen in I-don't-know-how-long; the most miraculously transformative revival of a musical I've seen perhaps ever -- this a.m. both were gratifyingly heaped with Tony nominations. Oh, of course I mean "Stereophonic" and "Merrily We Roll Along."
Seconded!!
The best new American play I've seen in I-don't-know-how-long; the most miraculously transformative revival of a musical I've seen perhaps ever -- this a.m. both were gratifyingly heaped with Tony nominations. Oh, of course I mean "Stereophonic" and "Merrily We Roll Along."
@BenjBrantley Yes! And after ignoring Daniel Radcliffe's stunning debut in Equus and subsequent stellar stage work, the Tonys finally acknowledge his brilliance. Tony awaits.
In a theater restroom last night, someone was eviscerating one of the season’s absolute darlings. And I thought, oh, my god, CHECK THE STALLS before you go off like that!
Speaking of #TonyAwards, happy hundredth birthday to Tony Award-winning legend, the late Sheldon Harnick.
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