Saturdays with...Antony and Warren?

So I saw Tuesdays with Morrie on Saturday. The show was alright. Not brilliant. Not entirely inspiring, the story is, but not the acting. Or the set. The show has already toured last year and they have just opened another set of shows for the month of May. Because they have done this show so many times, sometimes actors get caught in the exact same performance every night. Which becomes a predictable, not believable performance. Which is what this was. I felt like every inflection, laugh, and pause had already been planned out for me. There's nothing more boring to watch. The set changes involved stage hands coming on stage while the actors were still talking, sometimes even walking into the light. That distracted me. I wish they either would have waited until the actors were finished or went to a blackout.

Sitting in the show, it looked sold out except for the seat beside me. Go figure. Apparently no one goes to shows by themselves anymore. I would recommend seeing this show, even with its faults, for the sole reason of Antony Holland. At 88 years old he still has every eye on him when he speaks, even when he doesn't, and that my friends is talent. If I was inspired by anything in this performance it would be him and the way he takes Morrie and makes him his own. You can tell he understands the character. How could he not, he could probably relate.