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DAVID SUCHET a TOUR DE FORCE in AMADEUS
Perhaps best-known to American audiences as Hercule Poirot in the popular "Agatha Christie Mysteries" television series, DAVID SUCHET has been wowing critics and audiences alike as Antonio Salieri in Peter Shaffer's AMADEUS, directed by Peter Hall. Don't Miss the Peter Hall Evening Standard Interview in Letter from London
Mr. Suchet's road to Broadway began in 1998 when this production opened at London's Old Vic Theatre to rave reviews. From there, the production was mounted at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, again captivating critics and setting box office records, in the Fall of 1999, before triumphantly moving to Broadway in December:
"David Suchet's Salieri is a magisterial performance, imbued with melancholy wit and dignified pathos."
- John Simon, New York Magazine
"The wonderful David Suchet commands the stage with a sarcasm and bitterness you can almost touch."
- Jeffrey Lyons, WNBC-TV
"A brilliant, thrilling performance from David Suchet."
- Jay Reiner, The Hollywood Reporter
"David Suchet is Excellent."
- Benedict Nightingale, The Times, London
"David Suchet gives a lively, engaging performance - he carries the audience in the palm of his hand."
- Robert Feldberg, Bergen Record
"David Suchet couldn't be finer. On stage almost the entire duration, he's so in touch with this character we feel that he's just making it up as he goes along, and we hang on every word impossibly hoping he'll show mercy."
- Roma Torre, New York One
MICHAEL SHEEN IS "WHITE HOT" IN THE BROADWAY DEBUT OF THE YEAR!
Last December, young Welsh actor MICHAEL SHEEN, hailed by the London critics as "surely the best actor of his generation," made his Broadway debut in the title role of AMADEUS.
"Like his Welsh compatriots, Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins, Michael Sheen will blaze in the firmament for years to come...a brilliant young actor...simply exhilirating."
- Michael Coveney, The Daily Mail
"Michael Sheen's performance is extraordinarily nimble, with whip-crack timing."
- Michael Phillips, Los Angeles Times
"Watching the white-hot performance of Michael Sheen, you start to appreciate the derivation of the term 'star.' It is not just that Sheen is often in a state of manic motion; it's that his body temperature would seem to be several degrees higher than that of anyone else. He is so luminous, it is scary!"
- Ben Brantley, The New York Times
"Sheen, a blazing talent, plays Mozart as a bizarre-looking child-man, his eyes haunted orbs that actually seemed trapped inside a life of unbridled appetites and terrors."
- Linda Winer, Newsday
"Michael Sheen is fantastic as Mozart. The man has all the makings of a great actor."
- Clive Barnes, The New York Post
