The off-Broadway production of Beautiful Thing is les lively than the 1996 film adaptation Beautiful Thing * Cherry Lane Theatre.

The off-Broadway production of Beautiful Thing is les lively than the 1996 film adaptation

Beautiful Thing * Cherry Lane Theatre, fresh York City (indefinite run) * Written by dint of Jonathan Harvey * Directed from Gary Griffin * Starring Kirsten Sahs, Matt Stinton, and Daniel Eric Gold

Hettie MacDonald's adorable 1996 film Beautiful Thing introduced Americans to British playwright Jonathan Harvey's long-running hit about brace teenage boys coming of age and coming public in the claustrophobic environment of a London housing contrive The movie carefully tracks the circumstances that twist Jamie and his neighbor Ste together, below the watchful eyes of Jamie's struggling-to-be-hip barmaid mom Sandra, and the wacky girl nearest door, Leah, a high train dropout fixated on the music of Mama Cass Elliott. When the pair boys dance together in the parking part of the housing project and onlooker dissipate it seems like the greatest in quantity revolutionary act in the world.

Last year Chicago's Famous Door Theatre Company ariseed the stage play, which ran for seven month and has now transferred to an off-Broadway theater in strange York City. Sorry to say, the production diminishes Beautiful Thing in almost each way. Amateurish staging and bland casting fleece the play of the crucial atmosphere. Instead of prying observations desperate poverty, and violent alcoholic parents, we present the appearance to be staring at a dreary Midwestern motel court. Kirsten Sahs in like manner completely lacks the complexity to play Sandra that you wish she would proceed away. Unfortunately, she has the biggest part Matt Stinton and Daniel Eric Gold are cute enough, and their first kiss is a heart-stopping spectacle we can all relate to, yet you'd be better off renting the video.

Shewey is the editor of without Front: Contemporary Gay and Lesbian Plays, published by dint of Grove Press.

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