August 2009
“He also smoothes the way for Max Yasgur (Eugene Levy), the dairy farm’s owner, and Michael Lang (Jonathan Groff), the festival’s prime mover, to make a deal. Mr. Groff’s Lang is presented as a suave hippie capitalist with a streak of grandiosity; he appears, knightlike, atop a horse near the end of the movie.”
—http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/movies/26woodstock.html?hpw
“including super-mellow hippie entrepreneur Michael Lang (a cherubic Jonathan Groff)”
—http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2009/08/27/f-taking-woodstock-review.html
“When Elliot hears that a three-day music and arts festival has had its permit denied by a nearby town, he contacts the promoter, Michael Lang — played in one of the film’s finest performances by Broadway star Jonathan Groff — and invites him to check out his family’s motel, and the nearby town of Bethel. (Elliot, who sees an economic future in the arts, already holds a permit for a music festival, albeit one he envisioned along the lines of chamber music and string quartets.)”
—http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/08/27/ST2009082704238.html
“Groff (Broadway’s “Spring Awakening,” making his film debut) is a standout as a sharp, visionary promoter.”
—http://www.backstage.com/bso/reviews-movie-tv-reviews/taking-woodstock-1004006933.story
“Melchi Gabor: he’s such a radical!”
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