Comments for McCarter Theatre

Comment on Top Ten Rewards of my Stick Fly Experience by Antone Collins

Antone Collins — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:03:56 +0000

You have to express more your opinion to attract more readers, because just a video or plain text without any personal approach is not that valuable. But it is just form my point of view

Comment on Chris Botti is Coming! by Antoine Smith

Antoine Smith — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:05:41 +0000

Chris Botti is an excellent artist with great music! Definitely, I am a fan.

Comment on Audience Response: Fetch Clay, Make Man by Nouvember Proctor

Nouvember Proctor — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:16:41 +0000

I thought this play was excellent. Even the stage itself was a sight to see. The actors played their roles amazingly and I was honored to have been able to learn about my history. I learned who Stepin Fetchit was and how people thought he degraded the image of black people when he was only trying to make ends meet, I also learned about he and Muhammad Ali were great friends when most people saw him as a traitor .
Then after the play I met the actors and there was a session where me and my peers were able to ask them questions and it gave me an even better understanding of the play. Overall i thought the play was a great and I enjoyed every bit of it!

Comment on Audience Response: Fetch Clay, Make Man by Shadura Lee

Shadura Lee — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:52:21 +0000

Ben Vereen is an amazing actor who could bring life to any character and other characters that he works with on stage. I think this play was well put together especially the stage and its elements. The stage setting gave all the scenes real existence. After seeing this play, I left with a better understanding of Stepin Fetchit and his relationship with Muhammad Ali.

Comment on Audience Response: Fetch Clay, Make Man by ann kerr

ann kerr — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:30:20 +0000

I loved the play and was rivited by the performances of Ben Vereen and Evan Park, who made me believe he really was Ali. The supporting cast was also excellent.

Comment on Audience Response: Fetch Clay, Make Man by Susan Gaissert

Susan Gaissert — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:40:16 +0000

I thought the concept and the performances were wonderful, but I also felt the play itself needs some more work. There are a few incidents of embarrassingly transparent exposition (e.g., Fox: ” When I was the oldest of six kids . . .” [I’m paraphrasing here.]).

Everything is there in the script: the two mirror relationships of Fetchit/Clay and Fox/Rashid, the ideas about slavery, image, and making concessions. They just didn’t seem fully fleshed out and polished yet.

The wife role was excellently played, but the part may be an expendable subplot.

I’d love to see the play again, when the themes have been perfectly polished by the playwright. It has everything necessary to be a truly great play.

By the way, I last saw Ben Vereen perform in 1974, in Pippin, on my very first date. I got his autograph after the show, and he was wearing a gray pin-striped, three-piece suit and a bright yellow shirt. I never forget that moment. Seeing him now as Stepin, I can say that he has lost none of his energy or his ability to mesmerize an audience. I loved his performance.

Comment on Audience Response: Fetch Clay, Make Man by Lisa Teem Bell

Lisa Teem Bell — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:51:46 +0000

Evan Parke is mesmerizing as Ali! Well-deserved standing ovation on Thurs. night.

Comment on She Stoops to Conquer, 1963 by Apollo Dukakis

Apollo Dukakis — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:12:01 +0000

Yes,I was in the ensemble of SHE STOOPS TO CONQUERat McCarter when I was 26 years old. I remember it well since it was the day when Kennedy was shot and we were performing PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD(in which I had a non-speaking part) which opened right after CONQUER. Just prior to a matinee we got the news and hysteria and much crying broke out backstage. We performed the play and after the curtain call the Artistic Director of the theater,Arthur Lithgow(John’s father) came out and announced to the shocked and stunned audience that the President had been killed in Dallas. To this day I can’t forget the loud gasps and cries I heard from the audience!
An interesting footnote: I will soon be playing Pegeen’s father in a production of PLAYBOY this Spring at A Noise Within(a classical repertory theater) in Los Angeles. So 46 years later,as a seasoned player(I’m 72 years old) it is quite a coincidence that I would stumble across your website at this moment!!!
Ahhh,Kismet!!!!

Comment on My interview with Lydia Diamond by BernieDee

BernieDee — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:09:15 +0000

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

Comment on Will Power on The Colbert Report by Marisol

Marisol — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:56:34 +0000

This is fantastic! Will did an awesome job. Can’t wait to see what he’s been up to these days. See you all Friday…