Oh my. "My Big Gay Italian Wedding" is the worst play I have seen all year. And probably it is the worst "professional" play I have seen in New York. Granted, it was fun and there was a lot of laughing, but DAMN, this was a bad play. The direction was terrible, it was chaos on stage, the script sucked ass, and the best thing about it was, really, that there were some cute guys on the stage.
And one of the understudies had a great bio in the program:
"Antony Raymond (Swing) would like to say "thanks" to nobody because he earned this role of "understudy" all on his own. This marks Antony's understudy debut. Other credits include Man #1, Person and Guy with Dog."
Seriously, this show is just full of cheese and bad laugh lines and over the top characters. The production values were high school-ish, and it appears to be a sort of ego-trip production where the author (who is also the star). He works on a soap opera. Let's hope he does a better job there than he does in gay off-Broadway theatre.
But I have to confess, I laughed a lot! I did. Not always for the right reasons, but I laughed a lot... Then I came home and got a ticket for a show I hear is really good... "Bug."
Posted by Jon at March 20, 2004 01:21 AM | TrackBack