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MASTER POST OF LEIGHTON MEESTER'S BEST OFFICIAL REVIEWS FOR OF MICE AND MEN BROADWAY COLLECTED FROM ONLINE SOURCES
(Those are all the official online reviews of a laudatory quality that I could find of Leighton Meester collected between April 16 - April 18, 2014. A minority of the available reviews are not included because they are not positive, constructive or that they are negligibly neutral. And as a Leighton Meester fan page, our first goal is to promote things that celebrate and encourage Leighton's career and life. @itsmeleighton @miceanddmenbway)
1. From @vulture And Leighton Meester, late of Gossip Girl, brings unexpected dignity (and stage chops) to Curley’s Wife, who despite not even having her own name is the Woman Who Causes the Trouble.
Theater Review: James Franco in Of Mice and Men -- Vulture
2. From @TorontoStar , But it’s the acting that makes this song sing so truly. Every role is cast with the proper grit and texture, with all the ranch hands seeming like the rough, broken men they are and Leighton Meester playing Curley’s Wife as the tawdry rag doll with her eye on a non-existent prize that she has to be.
With perfect casting, Of Mice and Men remains shattering work of art: Review | Toronto Star
3. From @broadwayworld Leighton Meester, as the character known only as Curley's wife, is touching in her attempts to find some simple friendship to make up for the loneliness she finds in her marriage.
BWW Reviews: Shapiro Gives OF MICE AND MEN a Classic Treatment
4. From @GayCityNews Leighton Meester (“Gossip Girl”), another Broadway neophyte, is spot-on as the wife of the ranch owner’s son, Curley (she’s not given a name). The sole female character in the 10-person drama, she’s a flirty, bored “tart” who upsets the men-only balance of the bunkhouse. With just the right mix of pushiness and vulnerability, Meester elicits our sympathy for Curley’s wife being stuck with a jealous husband (an excellent Alex Morf) in the middle of nowhere.
Best Laid Schemes - gaycitynews.com | gaycitynews.com
5. From @Independent Meester, also making her Broadway debut, who enlivens a small role as the play’s only woman with a moving reminiscence on the fate of her father.
Of Mice and Men, Longacre Theatre, review: James Franco excels in Broadway debut - Reviews - Theatre & Dance - The Independent
6. From @BroadwaySpotted I’ll give her mad props on shedding the “Blair Waldorf” mannerisms and voice. Being known for a specific role can lead to problems later in an acting career, but Leighton was able to transform into another very different character with grace.
Review: Of Mice and Men - BroadwaySpotted
7. From @EpochTimes Leighton Meester’s complex opposition of flirt and damaged soul,
Theater Review: ‘Of Mice and Men’ - The Epoch Times
8. From @NYDailyNews “Gossip Girl” alum and stage newcomer Meester brings out the yearning and sadness of the unnamed wife.
‘Of Mice and Men,’ theater review* - NY Daily News
9. From @Huffpost The debuting Meester conveys the confusion that Curley's wife is in. She's perplexed by her husband's jealous rages but also aware she can use her wiles as a possible way to find someone with whom to carry on a friendly exchange. Meester plays the beaten to a wounded parenthesis wife as hard and getting harder but still vulnerable.
First Nighter: Franco, O'Dowd, Meester Distinguish Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men'*|*David Finkle
10. From @Variety There’s no way to overpraise the nine men and one woman (Leighton Meester, holding her own nicely, thank you, as the femme fatale) in this ensemble who bring Steinbeck’s characters to life.
‘Of Mice and Men’ Review: James Franco, Chris O’Dowd Lead a Brilliant Revival | Variety
11. From @Newsday Leighton Meester ("Gossip Girl") brings an impressive core of loneliness alongside her eroticism as the only woman, the wife of the boss' son.
'Of Mice and Men' review: James Franco, Chris O'Dowd shine - Newsday
12. From @Telegraph Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester impresses as the only woman on the ranch, unhappily married to the owner’s son. She navigates around the stereotype of “****ty desperate housewife” to become more complex - a fragile and misunderstood catalyst for the play’s final-act tragedy.
Of Mice and Men, Longacre Theatre, Broadway, review - Telegraph
13. From @amNewYork Meester, best remembered as Blair on the television series "Gossip Girl," is quite effective as Curly's Wife, who desperately seeks attention from the farmhands as a result of her absent husband.
'Of Mice and Men' couldn't get much better - am New York
14. From talkingbrodway.com And as Curley's wife, Leighton Meester leaves you forever wondering whether she's the victim or the aggressor, an uncertainty from which the second act greatly benefits.
Talkin' Broadway Review: Of Mice and Men
15. From @USATODAY Meester brings flickers of softness and even warmth to the role.
Broadway's new 'Of Mice and Men' starry and stinging
16. From @NBCNewYork But she [Leighton] reveals a sweetness and openness in the second act, sitting with Lennie in the barn, as she invites him to touch her hair.
Review: Franco, O'Dowd Are "Men" for All Seasons | NBC New York
17. From ( The Hollywood Reporter) @THR Leighton Meester is lovely in her Broadway debut as Curly's pretty wife. A sad, flighty figure, she still fantasizes about movie stardom after walking into an ill-considered marriage, seeking attention in the wrong places.
James Franco and Chris O'Dowd in 'Of Mice and Men': Theater Review - Hollywood Reporter
18. From @irishamerica Also debuting on Broadway is Leighton Meester, acclaimed for portraying the love-troubled and beautiful Blair Waldorf on “Gossip Girl.” Meester convincingly sheds the bombshell status of her former role to transform the part of Curley’s wife, the sole, unnamed, female character in the play, from a sultry floozy into a tragic temptation brought on by her own loneliness.
Review: “Of Mice and Men” | Irish America