Matthew Morrison's unsettling 'Grinch' is a natural conclusion to 2020
Sonia Rao, The Washington Post
Dec. 10, 2020
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1of3Matthew Morrison as the mean one, Mr. Grinch.David Cotter/NBC.Show MoreShow Less
2of3From left, Morrison as the Grinch, Denis O'Hare as Old Max and Booboo Stewart as Young Max.David Cotter/NBC.Show MoreShow Less
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Reader, I tried.
I tried to banish every preconceived opinion of Matthew Morrison playing the Grinch from my mind before flipping to "Dr. Seuss' The Grinch Musical!" on NBC on Wednesday night. I tried to look past his tenure on "Glee" as Will Schuester, a character so dreadful he turned Morrison into a TikTok villain. Mostly, I tried to forget the Broadway alum recently compared his Grinch's style of dancing to Joaquin Phoenix's "carefree and raw" performance on the steps in "Joker."