Washington Post saying Martin’s signature charm was ‘misapplied’ as the voice of the masses and Vulture saying his everyman was ‘too everyman’.
View this post on InstagramIn the role that made Noel Coward an overnight star in the 1920s, Will Young was thought to be a shoo-in, or at least that his casting would raise the profile of the show. ‘Vortex,’ the convoluted family–cum-romance drama which follows the fortunes of a mother and son in post-WW1 Britain, was onstage at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, six years after Young won Pop Idol in the UK.
However, the ‘Evergreen’ singer’s performance was judged harshly due to his lack of experience and doe-eyed persona. Young’s turn as the drug-addicted, sexually confused Nicky was critiqued by the Guardian as ‘little boy lost,’ with scorn heaped on the producer for his casting.
The timeless and relatable classic fairytale of a woman who marries a man for his money and then is unfairly lumbered with his daughter after his death (ok maybe that isn’t the moral of the story) was made into a musical in 1957 by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
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