Starpower pupils rain "melodramatic Steady"

NEW YORK (AP) - Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman to a lesson, like the movie star charisma can bring mediocre material to "a steady rain," the hottest Broadway ticket this fall. Keith Huff two-turn a couple of hard - boiled Chicago Police Department could, increasingly melodramatic and ridiculous, but the two stars are so compelling on stage as the audience goes happily for the ride. Generate the kind of star power, the heat recently played right on Broadway commercially viable, and Craig Jackman and play Joey and Denny, long time partners and friends, the best greetings like "stamp Irish" signs of affection. Denny is married and has children, and often the root of Joey to dinner, his partner alone with a sense of family. As we soon learn, the two men are deeply worried. Joey is a serious drinking problem and harbors a secret love for the wife of his partner, Denny major difficulties in the private and commercial for his thinly-veiled racism and an inability to refrain from fraud on his wife. S "turns addressing each other and the public, men weave a gripping story, which ultimately comes to a vengeful pimp, have a cannibalistic serial killer, the imminent death of a young son, Denny, adultery and a multitude of elements of the land on the other side . He looks like an extended session of the much more caffeine buddy - cop film that could be of Sidney Lumet and Martin Scorsese. Who are the works where it is a testimony actors. Jackman, on his first trip to New York again, very different from Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz "is full of macho and very entertaining. Craig is a revelation. L "British actor usually somewhat recessive in her movie roles (his James Bond, in my opinion, is rigid). But here, too, that his debut on the American scene, he offers a very convincing turn s' lead with a terrible accent Chicago, which works wonderfully. Both actors show great chemistry together, which should translate well to the screen version inevitable. Director John Crowley ( "The Pillowman") staging is minimal but effective, with music and sound effects and backgrounds, which threatens to create landscapes in the city ban an appropriately somber atmosphere.