More on Pennock in Hamlet

[Bette]

LA Weekly wrote an article about the disastrous production of Hamlet  that Chris Pennock was involved in early this year. And Chris himself provided the cartoons which accompany the article.

Try this link:

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/31/features-morris.php


If this doesn't work, go to laweekly.com and search for "Hamlet."


Bette

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Whoa! Certainly an, uh, lively article. But probably one perfectly befitting that production.    And I love Pennock's cartoons - they're hysterical! 

Thanks so much for the link, Bette. 

[Bette]

Whoa! Certainly an, uh, lively article. But probably one perfectly befitting that production.    And I love Pennock's cartoons - they're hysterical! 

Thanks so much for the link, Bette. 

Your welcome, MB. I'm glad that Chris  seems to have come out of the whole thing with his sense of humor intact. I'm also very happy that Midnite and I did not make the mistake of going to see the show on opening (and closing?) night!

Bette

[Philippe Cordier]

Thanks for the update, Bette.  

I think Mr. Vitale needs help -- and I don't mean just a drama coach and speech coach.  (The director sounds like he has some issues, too -- although truth be told, I've heard some British directors described similarly!)

My favorite quote from the article is:

"how does a man with no stage training and a poor command of the English language wind up playing Hamlet in the middle of Hollywood? And what marketing genius suggested $35,000 billboards to advertise an 85-seat theater production? Yet, given such extravagant publicity, why didn't Hamlet learn his lines?"

But the scariest lines are the final quote from Vitale:

" 'I'm doing a national tour with a new play, a musical, and we're going to go all over the country,' he says. 'It's an Equity production with the same investors, they're big supporters. It's called Dreams.' "

Guess that Simon Russel Beale (or whatever) "Hamlet" I saw a couple of years ago wasn't quite so bad after all ...

 

[Gothick]

Bizarre.   I wonder whether Clooney will end up using the footage for that HBO show?

G.

[ProfStokes]

That was quite an entertaining article!  Thank you for sharing it, Bette.

ProfStokes