もうすぐオープンして1ヶ月たってしまいますが、
自分のためにKiss Me, KateのReviewをまとめておこうと思います。
ま、批評は分かれましたけど、私は好きです。
The New York Times
Review: A Fair Fight Makes ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ Lovable Again
If no one else is singing at that level — Mr. Chase, charmingly vain in the book scenes, lacks only the effortlessness necessary to ace his numbers — Porter’s score remains an astonishing encyclopedia of musical comedy style.
Los Angels Times
Review: ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ from Roundabout Theatre has more showmanship than chemistry
Chase has the pencil mustache and cocky aloofness of a knockoff Clark Gable. The roguery and raillery are in place, and he has a pleasing way with a song, but his instincts for clowning undermine his suavity. Chase and O’Hara seem no more destined to be together as performers than Fred and Lilli seem fated to be reunited as a theater couple.
Chase exudes the perfect oily charm and exasperated panic as the actor-producer who finds his show coming apart at the seams, as well as decency under the bluster and swagger.
Observer
Kiss #MeToo Kate: A Broadway Classic Gets Consent
But here’s Kelli O’Hara and Will Chase in Kiss Me, Kate, putting the boot into each other’s gluteus maximus multiple times as the congenitally quarrelsome stage couple Lilli Vanessi and Fred Graham.
amNY
‘Kiss Me Kate’ review: Misguided revival of a classic musical comedy
Similarly, Will Chase is a veteran of rock musicals trying to branch out into more traditional material. Like O’Hara, Chase is limited in his comic abilities, but he manages to give a relatively decent performance.
Variety
Broadway Review: ‘Kiss Me, Kate’
Chase, always likable, solidly lands the double-entendre jokes in “Where Is the Life I Led.”
What keeps audiences continually engaged are Porter’s songs, which show off an impressive range of standards and styles; a Viennese waltz, a gavotte, a jazz turn, a now-classic showbiz anthem, a music hall ditty and several minor key ballads, including O’Hara’s haunting (and slightly disturbing) “So in Love” or Chase’s powerful “Were Thine That Special Face.”
Entertainment
Kelli O’Hara helps Broadway’s Kiss Me, Kate revival soar: EW review
The delightful Chase has embraced some of Fred’s goofiness, too, and he and O’Hara play off one another perfectly.
The Wrap
‘Kiss Me, Kate’ Broadway Review: Kelli O’Hara and Will Chase Are So in Love
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire — and Chase presents a red-hot lover on the rebound. He eschews playing the impresario-actor Fred Graham as a big ham. He’s actually an excellent Petruchio in the musical-within-a-musical scenes, and his pursuit of Lilli backstage is tinged with just enough recklessness to make it real. It’s a little odd to hear this character’s music, originally written for a bass-baritone, to be sung by a lighter voice. Chase’s best notes are up there in tenor territory, but at least they’re good notes.
In that 1999 revival, Marin Mazzie gave the audience a big wink at show’s end to assuage any sexist taint. O’Hara’s wry retreat with Chase is much more sophisticated.
Deadline
‘Kiss Me, Kate’ Broadway Review: Will Chase, Kelli O’Hara Stay True To Cole Porter’s Fashion – In Their Way
Kelli O’Hara and Will Chase are so evenly matched – in performance, talent and temperament – that it’s hard to imagine a more finely balanced battle de deux.
NY Post
Raunchy, gutsy ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ showcases glorious Kelli O’Hara
But the stars make the most of it. Chase, a Broadway vet and star of TV’s “Nashville,” makes a convincingly pompous and preening chauvinist, especially when he’s singing “I’ve Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua.”
The Washington Post
On Broadway, I just saw my first ‘Kiss Me, Kate.’ It was worth the wait.
Vulture
Theater Review: Can Kiss Me, Kate Survive a 2019 Gaze?
O’Hara’s rendition of the plaintive, soaring torch song “So in Love” is enough, in any context, to provoke full-body goosebumps, but when Chase gets around to reprising it near the end of the show, while he too sounds great, the song itself feels unearned. Something in the performances has got to convince us that Lilli and Fred are, despite everything, inexorably meant for each other — the light-as-angel-food-cake script’s not gonna do it — but here, there’s a pathos and a depth of connection missing. Chase is the right kind of charismatic — and game as hell — and O’Hara has poise for days, but somehow when they’re together their chemistry comes in sparks but not in heat waves.
Newsday
‘Kiss Me, Kate’ review: The music is still ‘Wunderbar’
Daily News
REVIEW: ‘Kiss Me Kate’ on Broadway makes for a pleasurable evening in the company of seasoned theater pros
O’Hara bats around Will Chase, her co-star, with enough force that you know who is in charge here, and that would be Lili Vanessi, not Fred Graham, the actor/manager playing Petruchio in the show within a show. Chase is a very savvy lead, not least because he knows what not to do, which is just as important as what he actually does.
Journal Inquirer
STAGE REVIEW: ‘Kiss Me Kate’ revival squashes original’s important message
Will Chase is excellent, giving Fred a balance of arrogance and ignorance that keeps him as endearing as possible.
The Island Now
Theater Review: ‘Kiss Me Kate’
Will Chase (TV”s “Nashville”) as Frederick is a fine match for O’Hara. Although his voice is not on par with hers, his energy and verve make him an attractive leading man. Charming, he works really hard, especially in songs like “Where Is the Life that Late I Led.”
