Elling
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SHOW INFORMATION
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 21, 2010
Closed Nov 28, 2010
Opened Nov 21, 2010
Closed Nov 28, 2010
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Running Time:
2hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Set in the current day, Elling is a comedy about a wildly mismatched pair of roommates trying to embrace life, love, friendship, pizza, poetry and women. Denis O'Hare plays obsessive/compulsive Elling. Brendan Fraser plays the wildly enthusiastic gentle giant Kjell. Jennifer Coolidge plays Reidun, the object of Kjell's considerable affection; Richard Easton plays Alfons, Elling's unlikely poet mentor and Jeremy Shamos plays Frank, an inquisitive social worker.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
What are other members saying?
"ELLING "IS A CHARMER
It,s too bad that more people wont get to see this sweet, charming and funny play as the closing notice is already up.It is well staged an beautifully acted all around. I had a fine time at it and lonly wish its ultimate Broadway fate could have been happier.
Reviewed by MRBDWAY
on Sunday, Nov 28th, 2010
RE:Go see this show!
First off, the Norwegian film is very well written, and this English translation/adaptation is just as funny. I havent laughed so hard at a play in a long time.
Denis OHare is a standout. Elling is a difficult role, a difficult person, and OHare gave a nuanced performance that allows the characters inherent goodness to shine through. Very very fine. Brendan Frasers Kjell is spot on. Kjell could be played as a cartoonish character, but here hes also infused with humanity. Jennifer Coolidge in her three roles is a hoot. So talented, great timing. Highly recommended.
Reviewed by mrc0201
on Friday, Nov 12th, 2010
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By the end of
Elling, now at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre, the broad appeal of the title character (Denis O'Hare) and his roommate Kjell Bjarne (Brendan Fraser) has become amusingly and winningly apparent. However, for too long before fade-out, the characters -- who meet in an asylum and continue their symbiotic bonding in an Oslo apartment the government assigns them -- are unremittingly obstreperous.
The problem lies neither with Fraser nor O'Hare, as the two game and energetic actors -- often seen pushing furniture around in the semi-darkness -- are just doing what they've been asked to do in Simon Bent's script (adapted from the Norwegian novelist Ingvar Ambjornsen's Elling [...]