I'm actually vaguely insulted on behalf of the non-A List actors who do audio books, many of whom are fantastic. They do, in fact, interpret the books they're reading as well.

Tim Robbins' version of "The Great Gatsby" is fantastic.

No kidding. It's disgraceful.

Memphis won all those Tonys because it was a shitty, shitty season, and it was the only musical with an original score that wasn't Addams Family.

Snidely Q. Dooshbaghe—As for the past ten years, I'd add in Passing Strange,
Caroline, Or Change, Light in the Piazza, Avenue Q, Spring Awakening, Grey Gardens, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Spelling Bee. I've also heard that Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Scottsboro Boys are impressive, though I haven't heard the…

That's a desperately wrong statement. Do not judge an art form by only its most expensive examples.

You win.

And the entire audience exhales for the first time in about 20 minutes. And then roars.

It would be pretty hard to ruin the material entirely, but I'm worried about how they'll make it work.

Nope. Very very different.

That is strange. I thought that Mrs. Danvers was pretty much international code for "coded queer villain".

Can we just take a moment for Judith Anderson's brilliance?

Put a gun to my head and I'd say she's my favorite performer on AD.

I have been meaning to watch that. From what I understand it's a little lighter than TTSS or The Constant Gardener.

Fantastic book. And a LeCarre adaptation is pretty much always worth a look. I'm excited.

I read the play once. It's pretty grating, though not as bad as the movie sounds. It's always possible to make a bad thing worse.

I mean "Mauritius" is…slick, entertaining, and hollow.

You know, I was going to criticize Sean for the fact that theatre stuff only turns up here when at its most horrible and tacky, but his first sentence was so gorgeous that I'm just going to say that he's wonderful and he can mock whatever he wants and I will read it with joy. Bravo, sir.

Much love for your APT reference.

That wasn't even his only incident of violent onstage behavior—when he was playing Henry VIII in the musical REX (it was the 1970s, bad ideas happened), he slugged a chorus member during the curtain call. The man was crazy.