Most actors-turned-Broadway-stars cannot handle the stage. It’s a reality that theater critics have to deal with. Theater and musical producers usually employ a known Hollywood celebrity for one purpose—to sell more tickets. But do they do a good job? Not really (hello, Ashlee).
When I heard thumbs-up reviews for Scarlett Johansson’s A View From The Bridge, I was pleasantly surprised. If you believe the critics’ reviews, then Scarlett’s acting skills helped bring justice to Arthur Miller’s drama.
Scarlett on opening night. She plays 17-year-old orphan Catherine, with whom her uncle is obsessed.
“It is the siren call of Catherine’s beauty that drives what Miller intended as a twentieth century American update of an ancient Greek tragedy, the story of a man who loves his niece in the wrong way, and it is the lure of Scarlett Johansson on the stage that makes A View From The Bridge worth seeing,” wrote theater critic Jonathan Mandel.
Good job, Scarlett!
