Matthew Morrison played the Grinch like it was Shakespeare. Twitter had some thoughts

When Matthew Morrison very first seems in NBC’s “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch Musical!” he paces the ground and stares into the distance though detailing how substantially he hates Xmas. He then tilts his eco-friendly facial area, furrows his green eyebrows and points his eco-friendly finger at the digicam.

“Look at you, end grinning,” he suggests to all people seeing from dwelling. “We are not here to appreciate ourselves.”

The household-helpful musical adaptation has been an once-a-year crowdpleaser of San Diego’s Aged World for the last 20 many years, and has since played Broadway two times and introduced a lot of excursions. NBC’s pre-taped overall performance was filmed around two times at the Troubadour Theater in London.

Morrison’s full determination to his just take on the beloved character (which he partly centered on Joaquin Phoenix in “Joker,” following all) was the subject matter of discussion all around the Television set musical occasion, which premiered Wednesday evening and will be adopted by an encore airing on Dec. 21.

“I feel that he is in a Shakespeare engage in,” tweeted actress Katie Johantgen, one particular of many viewers perplexed by Morrison’s method. “An individual tell him this isn’t Richard III.”

Of program, it was tricky to not compare this model to the 2000 movie with Jim Carrey or to believe of Morrison’s “Glee” character:

Some who tuned in were delighted by Booboo Stewart, who playfully portrayed the canine Max:

And nonetheless, the most puzzling portion of the broadcast was the jarring number of advertisements:

Nonetheless, Morrison tweeted during the prerecorded broadcast and made certain to handle the event’s naysayers:

This tale originally appeared in Los Angeles Periods.