What did the critics think of Skintight?
Broadway darling, Idina Menzel has returned to off-Broadway this summer as she stars in the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Joshua Harmon's Skintight. But what did the critics think?
Revieving a mixed response, The Financial Times said that ''Skintight,' nimbly directed by Daniel Aukin, is still a bracingly cynical well-made play' and with Variety saying 'For a play with serious matters on its mind, 'Skintight' is packed with jokes - droll ones, smart ones, silly ones, and some that are quite moving. The men may have all the laugh lines, but Menzel is marvelous at giving Jodi's annoying smothering-mother the plaintive air of someone who feels completely at a loss in a world she never dreamed of'.
However Time Out New York said 'But the play is so tightly corseted by its central concern - 'What is so great about hot?'- that its characters don't have enough room to breathe. It makes good points, but as a human story, it seldom digs beyond skin-deep'.
