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Dominic Maxwell (new Chief Theatre Critic) article in today’s issue of the Times UK.
The neon lights are bright on Broadway
With takings up and a raft of treats either already on or on their way, things are looking good for the Great White Way
Daniel Craig strides on stage, looking splendid in a Seventies suit and raincoat. I’m as delighted as anyone by this, but the crowd’s reaction still takes me by surprise. It’s a year since I’d been on Broadway, and I’d forgotten how star entrances get rounds of applause here. And even though The New York Times’s chief theatre critic last year called for the end of routine standing ovations, my five days in town suggest they remain the rule, not the exception.
Pavlovian showbiz responses make some sense, I suppose, when it’s Orlando Bloom’s self-consciously rugged Romeo motorbiking his way on stage in a new (and, sadly, uninvolving) production of Romeo and Juliet. The bike then freewheels rather feebly into the wings as Romeo makes his first exit, highlighting the lack of revs elsewhere in David Leveaux’s production. However, applause for Craig’s entrance is way out of whack with his role in Harold Pinter’s love-triangle masterpiece Betrayal, which is all about adultery in Kilburn.
Not that this is some arthouse event at one of the not-for-profit theatres that are New York’s closest equivalent to our subsidised sector. Betrayal, which also stars Craig’s offstage wife Rachel Weisz as his on stage wife and Rafe Spall as his best friend (and her lover), has already taken more than $10 million (£6.3 million) for its 14-week run, an astonishing amount for a non-musical. And I suppose when you are paying anything up to $423 (£266) for a seat, you can react to the sudden appearance of James Bond a few feet in front of you any way you please.
I paid $150 (£94) for a seat at the back of the stalls in the first week of preview. And although Mike Mike Nichols’s production still has more previews to go, for the most part it looked in grand shape to me. In the first, Craig-free scene, Weisz has a wonderful moment when she abandons her apparent poise by gulping at Spall’s pint while he pops to the bar. The final scene – which, owing to the backward chronology of the play, is also the start of the affair – has a moment of guileless joy as all three collapse laughing on a bed together. For a moment I thought that it was a genuine moment of corpsing.
We are used to Craig, as Bond, suggesting all sorts of internal life to a clenched, determined man. It turns out to be a transferable talent: he is pretty much the perfect performer of Pinter. He brings out the vulnerability of his pugilistic cuckold, Robert, in a way I’ve never seen any actor manage. I didn’t applaud Craig’s entrance, but at the curtain call I cheered.
Shardlake, its true. But I think, its his way of being AND acting - not showy, that often puts others in the limelight.
I think you are right on that one, he's most generous as an actor, Rooney Mara's extraordinary performance in GWTDT would not have been as good without an actor of his caliber.
Fincher said he knew he was in a safe place when he cast Craig as Blomvist , he felt he could relax as Craig as he put in his words "he's so f**king good".
I did say that yeah. Craig is a good Bond but I think he could be even better and with Purvis and Wade now gone I hope he will be.
If Bond 24 and 25 are going to be connected then I'd love it if they used the whole brainwashing story from the books. I think Craig would be the perfect Bond for that and it'd mean Fiennes gets a bigger part (which they'll have to give him as he's probably getting quite a bit of money), while not being in the field.
Although I think after the last few I'd prefer a more normal story focused Bond for the next one (we've just had a character piece with SF), so maybe do that for Bond 25 and 26 (if Craig sticks around for that long).
I'd like that, YKMN is a brilliant Bond song and I think only LALD beats it. I want Noel Gallagher to do Bond 24's theme though.
Noel Gallagher would be great, the Oasis fan in me would be very much pleased \m/
I think Noel was always the more talented of the two. Better singer and certainly the better songwriter. His more recent work in the guise of High Flying Birds is a real return to form. I'd also love him to write and perform the next Bond theme.
Noel for me as well, although I also like Liam a lot.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2476172/Rachel-Weisz-sparkling-gem-cheats-husband-Daniel-Craig-Betrayal.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
They probably don't see that much of each other normally though since they're away doing different films.
Time really does fly by. Feels like yesterday I was sitting front row and center, opening night here in the States, with my crush and our mutual friend watching this.
How exciting! Do keep us updated.
Note: All of us were just 10 years old that year ;)
I suppose you could be right.
Not sure what this has to do with Daniel Craig.
He means when Casino Royale premiered.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2521753/Heather-Graham-wows-sharing-red-carpet-Daniel-Craig.html