What show did I see instead of the Super Bowl?
Though I could have suffered through four straight hours of YOU'RE THE ONE THAT I WANT on NBC (which has admittedly gotten better, but the marathon was of the terrible first few episodes), I instead used the night to see F. Murray Abraham in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE at Theater New for a New Audience, of which tonight also marked its opening night. I was supposed to attend THE JEW OF MALTA, also starring Abraham, last night, but I messed up my scheduling and double booked two shows to review last night. As such, I instead went to CAVALLERIA/PAGLIACCI" at the Met and will now review MALTA in two weeks. I will then write a review of both MALTA and MERCHANT together, though I'm happy to report back that MERCHANT alone was quite decent.
Any theater news? Not really, other than some more articles popping up here and there about Daniel Radcliffe/Harry Potter's promotional pics for the West End revival of EQUUS. I understand that they're surprising to the untrained eye, but it's certainly less shocking than the content of the play itself....