My overall impression
Imagine this! Orson Welles’ last job in Hollywood was as the voice of a Planet, and Scatman Crothers’ was as the voice of an Astronaut named Jazz, in an animated film. In England they’d both have already been knighted for their contribution to their Nation’s Culture but, sadly, here the reward is humiliation and penury. How each of them deal with this reality is the intriguing subject of David Castro’s play where they meet, and skirmish, at an audition. Dennis Neal is brilliant as Crothers, an ironic spokesman for the Tinseltown Truth, while Rob Locke as Welles awesomely personifies this all-too-familiar figure of the Genius who demanded too much. Word is out that it’s being expanded into a full-length play. I certainly hope so and that these two actors stay with it.
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