“I wanted to tell you that it’s all right.”
“What is all right?”
“About what I felt about you. I’ve got the whole thing straightened out.”
Tag: Victor Garber
Donald with Brooks Ashmanskas and Victor Garber after last night’s show. http://t.co/T4yNGp9wQR
— Judgment Day (@JudgmentDayNYC)
In a case of rather impressive procrastination, I knew I saved this video back in 2007, but I lost two hard drives in the interim and wasn’t sure I managed to back it up beforehand, so I put off looking for it just in case I hadn’t—for at least six months, probably closer to a year. :
Obviously, in this case I found it, but BACK UP YOUR DATA, KIDS.
Martin surrounds his star with a fine cast of comic actors, any one of whom could steal the show if Garber weren’t the prince of thieves himself. But the one who comes closest to grand larceny is Brooks Ashmanskas, who takes the relatively peripheral role of Roland Maule, aspiring playwright and secretly obsessive fan, and turns it into a side-splitting masterpiece of comic timing and absurd physical grace.
When Ashmanskas launches a ridiculous speech with a coy simper or leaps across the stage in an ecstasy of creative inspiration, he provokes in us the same upwelling of helpless adoration that Garry apparently inspires in the hapless Mr. Maule. He’s not just funny; he’s an irresistible comic force.
Louise Kennedy, Boston Globe
Heck Yeah Brooks Ashmanskas 