Proving he’s a viable stage actor, Jake Gyllenhaal received a warm reception as he kicked off his limited run in the revival of “Little Shop of Horrors” in New York City on Wednesday night (July 1).
The “Southpaw” star was joined by Taran Killam, Tracy Nicole Chapman, Ellen Green and Ramona Keller as he played Seymour as part of the New York City Center Encores Off-Center production.
Afterwards, the New York Post sang Jake’s praises- “To everybody’s surprise, including maybe his own, Jake Gyllenhaal is appealingly funny and sweet in Encores’ semi-staged concert of the comic musical ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ — playing City Center for just two days. Not bad for a guy who’s best known for heavy-duty movies like ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and ‘Nightcrawler’ and a pair of somber-minded plays (most recently Broadway’s ‘Constellations’).”...
The “Southpaw” star was joined by Taran Killam, Tracy Nicole Chapman, Ellen Green and Ramona Keller as he played Seymour as part of the New York City Center Encores Off-Center production.
Afterwards, the New York Post sang Jake’s praises- “To everybody’s surprise, including maybe his own, Jake Gyllenhaal is appealingly funny and sweet in Encores’ semi-staged concert of the comic musical ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ — playing City Center for just two days. Not bad for a guy who’s best known for heavy-duty movies like ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and ‘Nightcrawler’ and a pair of somber-minded plays (most recently Broadway’s ‘Constellations’).”...
- 7/2/2015
- GossipCenter
The mood was ecstatic last night for the first of three concert performances of Little Shop of Horrors, the nearly perfect 1982 musical that’s the centerpiece of this summer’s “Encores! Off-Center” series. (The two remaining performances are today at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.) In the dark before the purple curtain rose, the sound of the first guitar chords drew cheers of recognition; later, the evening’s big celebrity draw, Jake Gyllenhaal, though costumed for his role as the nebbishy Seymour Krelborn, was welcomed like a rock god. So too were the trio of singing urchins (Tracy Nicole Chapman, Marva Hicks, and Ramona Keller) who act as the show’s sassy chorus, and the adorable little boy (Anwar Kareem) who did nothing much but carry around the bloodlusting Venus flytrap that eventually (in a larger form played by Eddie Cooper) eats Cleveland. Saturday Night Live’s Taran Killam,...
- 7/2/2015
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
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