www.jonathankalb.com: Leon’s production, starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Corey Hawkins, is the play’s first Broadway revival, and it’s mostly very fine. Anyone who saw the iconic original version directed by George C. Wolfe 20 years ago, starring Jeffrey Wright and Mos Def, will notice some striking differences, but this show is also gripping and powerful in its own right.
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I think what this article got right in the end was how the production and the audience rely on theatre magic to make people believe what is actually happening on stage actually happens. I like to think that when people laugh either out of politeness for a show going horribly wrong or because they genuinely find something funny, that they can at least actually smile after that. Like just because you’re faking a smile doesn’t mean that you’re not actually going to smile because of it. I also think, people laugh at different things because humor is subjective and people are going to have to rely on writers to really just capture the broadest range of audience that they can with one zinger yknow? I like to laugh and I like to make people laugh but more importantly I like it when large groups of people can laugh together again.
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