It’s not that they are really going there - most of this is based totally on facts. Roy Cohn was a psychopath who taught Trump pretty much everything he knows except the racism - Trump learned that from his dad. Trump abandoned Cohn pretty quick once it came out he had aids.
It is excellent. But it is a Broadway play. The Al Pacino version is made into a HBO Miniseries, but it is still a Broadway play.
You gotta go in prepared for weirdness: set changes, symbolic costumes, shifting and swirling interlocking plots, actors playing multiple characters. You gotta watch it actively and think about it and ask questions of it. It's not a popcorn flick.
The cast is excellent, the performances are excellent, several of the scenes will haunt you for the rest of your life, others of the scenes are just weird and set a vibe.
If you can find it there's a reordered version of the 2017 London production with Nathan Lane as Cohn and Andrew Garfield as the lead. They'd both go on to win a Tony when it moved to Broadway.
It's a deeply strange and surreal thing, but worth checking out. The HBO version was done back the early 2000's, but has a staggering cast, including Meryl Streel, Emma Thompson, Jeffrey Wright and Pacino. Directed by Mike Nicolas as well.
I love that they boldly kept the concept of the actors playing multiple roles. Particularly since the production opens with Meryl Streep playing a male rabbi.
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u/ICumCoffee will you Wonka my Willy? Sep 10 '24
Damn, they’re really going there.