Meryl Streep Tags the Wrong Theater Critic
New York magazine pan of Trelawny of the Wells was not written by John Simon.
An interesting WENN item made the rounds this week. Meryl Streep recalled her 1975 Broadway debut in Trelawny of the Wells, alongside John Lithgow, Mandy Pantinkin and Marybeth Hurt, and how the production was derailed by a New York magazine pan:
“We had preview audiences who were laughing and loving it and having a great time and then John Simon, who was a reviewer for New York magazine and famously cantankerous, wrote a shitty review and after that came out the audiences were nonplussed, because they were told how to feel.”
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