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Permalink Reply by Jason Charnick on February 1, 2016 at 5:49pm

nice stuff! i got to see the show only once, on fri the 22nd, so consider yourself lucky, he wasn't signing anything non-show related that night from what i saw. how did the show develop from the 3 times you saw it? i read about his difficulty with his lines during previews, and when i was there i also picked up a copy of the play and noticed the ending as performed was much different than what was published.

there was a lady waiting in front of me at the door at my show that had seen it like 5 times up to that point, and she shared a moment with him discussing how the show had developed over the past few months, and it was clear they had talked it about it at earlier shows as well.

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Permalink Reply by Pen On Paper Collections To Jason Charnick on February 1, 2016 at 7:07pm

The play is just awful. Al is great. He delivers each line such intensity. They did a few rewrites which help but not much.

I'm lucky I got those items. They cracked down on getting non China Doll stuff signed last month because they caught someone selling an autographed poster for several hundred dollars down the block from the play.

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Permalink Reply by Jason Charnick To Pen On Paper Collections on February 1, 2016 at 9:36pm

I didn't think the show was awful per se... but keep in mind I slurp just about anything David Mamet... that being said, I do prefer a little more interaction in my theater than a guy talking on his headset for 95% of the show. I saw the Anarchist in LA last year with Rebecca Pidgeon and Felicity Huffman, and found it to be much more riveting than China Doll. Mainly because the 2 characters were, you know, talk to each other throughout the whole show!

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