Let's face it, girls--in 2013, when, like Nora in "A Doll's House," Mamie Gummer, with Mama MERYL standing right behind her, slammed the door, in Park Slope, on ex-hubby Benjamin Walker, that was pretty much it for this actor's career, at that point. Now he could no longer ride the gravy train of STREEP to his career, for this pig was through! He was tossed out onto the street, where he belonged, and was last seen on Sunset Strip in LA, picking spuds out of ash cans, sucking nutrition from discarded cigarette butts.
Well, now he has been rescued. And it figures the one who did so was composer Duncan Sheik, responsible for that piece of Musical Theater Dreck called "Spring Awakening"--which I could not stand, and which, even being performed by the deaf, will be intolerable. His next project, with Walker, however, may prove even worse--a musical adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' hard to take novel--but I did get through it, darlings!!!!!!!--"American Psycho." Maybe the fact that he treated Mamie so shabbily--the marriage lasted a scant eighteen months, which is nothing, but which, at least is better than Ethel Merman and Ernest Borgnine!!!!!---helped him land the role. But don't count those chickens, Ben! You think this show is going anywhere??????? You will be back on those streets in no time!
I did not see Sheik's last work--I could barely make it through the Original Cast Recording--so I do not plan on seeing this thing.
I mean, isn't there enough psychosis on Broadway, already??????????????
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