Tag: Alan Tudyk

There’s a thriving clown-theatre scene in New York, but unless you’re Bill Irwin or perhaps Slava, you’re not likely to get reviewed by major publications such as the New York Times. An exception to that is the three-clown, two-musician, one-hour show, That Beautiful Laugh, which just concluded a sold-out two-week run at the La MaMa Theatre Club. No doubt the appearance of a celebrity —movie and tv actor Alan Tudyk — as the head clown helped the publicity effort. The good news is that Tudyk is quite good, and to me at least showed more range as a clown than did his two partners, Carlton Ward and Julia Ogilvie, though Ward does prove to be the most physical performer, both in terms of character movement and tricks.