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I suspect we’re going to be seeing more assessments of The Farnsworth Invention like this one, as more people come away from the play wondering how much of it has any connection to anything that really happened: In addition, I felt a little cheated to learn that a key scene in the play is a […]

Link: TheStar.com  Sorkin pens Broadway play. Before Sorkin gave us Sports Night and then The West Wing, he became obsessed with Philo Farnsworth, the alcoholic loser and electronics genius.

Blogger-type "reviews of the previews" keep showing up in the daily alerts: So it’s probably anti-climactic to say I loved the show. I liked the way he had Philo Farnsworth and David Sarnoff, the two main characters, narrate each other’s story. I liked how the scenes flowed seamlessly across time and space, from New York

Another blogger chimes in: THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION. An interesting problem here. After it ended, I really found I had enjoyed it – it felt both really entertaining and very educational – and it held my interest the entire time. Well, then I got home and went to Wikipedia and read the real story of Farnsworth

There have been numerous suggestions that The Farnsworth Invention is anticipated as this season’s follow up to last season’s hugely successful (and critically acclaimed) Nixon/Frost, which, like ‘Farnsworth,’ tells a story of two opposing protagonists.  Here’s a blog post from one viewer who saw the play through just such a prism: The Farnsworth Invention also

The professional theatrical press is still enjoined from writing reviews of The Farnsworth Invention prior to its official November 14 opening.  But that hasn’t stopped bloggers who have seen the play from writing whatever and whenever the want.  For example, this recent entry from somebody who saw the play last week: The cast was ABSOLUTELY

Here’s another report from a spectator at one of the early previews of The Farnsworth Invention on Broadway.  As other early reports have indicated, it seems the "Farnsworth character" in this portrayal does not fare all that well: Mr. Simpson’s Farnsworth is a talented genius, flawed by his focus on his invention. Stumbling drunk, or

And so the first accounts (we’re not supposed to call them "reviews" until after the official opening in November) of the first preview performances of Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention are beginning to show up in the blogosphere.  For example, this wrap up from The New York Observer‘s "Culture Czar" blog: The Farnsworth Invention takes

The ‘preview’ performances of The Farnsworth Invention began their month-long run on Broadway last night, and at least one audience member had the  presence of mind to seek out more information on the web, posting this comment on  YouTube: I just returned from the new play on Broadway – The Farnsworth Invention. What a story.

Seems entirely appropriate that the producers of "The Farnsworth Invention" would put a little something on YouTube to promote the play: Back in the days when I thought I was going to make “a movie for television about the boy who invented it,” I thought the log line would be “The next great moment in