[HPFGU-Movie] Re: First Equus review!!!!!!!

[AnitaKH]

Steve <bboyminn at yahoo.com> wrote:          Only slightly related side note. I read the 

DanRadcliffe.co.uk

...review and it seems like the performance was very
good. Then I started looking for other reviews. I
did find one where a very hardened and jaded reviewer
said he was moved to tears by the performance.

Odd thing; first I checked the general news sites, 
then I went specifically to London Theaters websites
...not a word. I would assume that every London 
Theater News journal/newspaper/magazine/website
would have had a reviewer at the performance, yet not
a word from any of them.

  akh pipes up:
  As another poster pointed out, the press is not expected to review the play until later.  In fact, producers can be very testy when it comes to reviewers showing up before they're invited.  A friend of mine was in the original production of The Producers when it was previewing in Chicago, and they forbade anyone to review the show prior to press night, which was shortly before they left for their Broadway debut.  
  My friend said that they were changing the show right up to press night, so the reviewer seeing a first preview wouldn't have been reviewing the show as it appeared on Broadway, anyway.  I doubt they're doing quite that extensive reworking on this one, since it's a revival, but I'd heard (probably from all of you) that Peter Schaffer (sp?) was involved in this, so you never know.
  akh, who agrees the media can be out to lunch, but has some inside info that they're at the mercy of the theatres when it comes to reviews



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