O'Brien's characters are all cardboard, lacking either enough nuance to remind us of real humans or the insightful wit to work as satire. They all say just exactly what's on their minds—usually something angry, petulant or pleading, which in any case is played quite broadly, often by the actors placing emphatic glottal breaks between syllables.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:56PM on April 13, 2011