Friday, August 05, 2005
Is anyone reallysurprised Suzanne Somers's one-woman autobiographical show The Blonde in the Thunderbird has closed less than one week after opening night?
Maybe the show sucked but the critics came up with some great quotables:
Charles Isherwood in The Times said Blonde was "a drab and embarrassing display of emotional exhibitionism masquerading as entertainment," and noted that Somers's black tights-and-tunic costume was "cruelly clingy."
The Broadway.com critic called it "shoddily constructed" and "a grim, at times excruciating evening."
A critic at the Daily News suggested it was "more like a Vegas act or a brassy TV special than a piece of theatre."
TheatreMania.com declared Blonde to be "a People cover story with music."
AND as if we needed further proof that people just can't take criticsm...
Somers responded to The New York Post saying the critics "are curmudgeons, and maybe I went too close to the bone for them. I was lying there naked, and they decided to kick me and step on me, just like these visions you see in Iraq."
