This show has been getting a lot of buzz around town. Newspapers and magazines alike are claiming that it's the sexiest show of the season (even Vogue, though why would I care what Vogue says about a broadway show?!) I am a huge fan of Nina Arianda, she being an alum of AMDA and even went to school there at the same time I was attending. I am also a humungous David Ives fan, having performed one of his short plays in high school (edited for content of course, but funny nonetheless). This play just didn't scream anything to me. Sure it was funny. It was also sexy. But was it the sexiest or the funniest? Hardly. I felt that Ives has written so much better stuff and Arianda shone more in Born Yesterday. I am sure she'll get some sort of nomination for this performance, however. I thought Hugh Dancy was fine. I don't have much of a history of him....so yeah. Would I send someone to this show? Maybe. Is it awful? No. Aaron was quoted "This is what Spring Awakening would have been without any music."
We were in row G in the mezz. The theater is really small so it's one of the more intimate settings for theater. (It's also the last theater I needed for "theater bingo". I have been in EVERY SINGLE theater on broadway at some point in my life!) They have a balcony, so maybe it's less intimate feeling up there. This theater is in a DIRE need of a renovation though. The minute you walk into the lobby, you see the old moldings, pictures hanging of actors long gone, etc. The seats were SO uncomfortable. Oh, and they might be the most uncoordinated and clueless ushers I've seen in some time.
The play is nice and short and has a couple of surprises, but it's not a MUST see. Well, if you like Nina Arianda in leather and lingerie, it IS a must see.
This show has been getting a lot of buzz around town. Newspapers and magazines alike are claiming that it's the sexiest show of the season (even Vogue, though why would I care what Vogue says about a broadway show?!) I am a huge fan of Nina Arianda, she being an alum of AMDA and even went to school there at the same time I was attending. I am also a humungous David Ives fan, having performed one of his short plays in high school (edited for content of course, but funny nonetheless). This play just didn't scream anything to me. Sure it was funny. It was also sexy. But was it the sexiest or the funniest? Hardly. I felt that Ives has written so much better stuff and Arianda shone more in Born Yesterday. I am sure she'll get some sort of nomination for this performance, however. I thought Hugh Dancy was fine. I don't have much of a history of him....so yeah. Would I send someone to this show? Maybe. Is it awful? No. Aaron was quoted "This is what Spring Awakening would have been without any music." 
We were in row G in the mezz. The theater is really small so it's one of the more intimate settings for theater. (It's also the last theater I needed for "theater bingo". I have been in EVERY SINGLE theater on broadway at some point in my life!) They have a balcony, so maybe it's less intimate feeling up there. This theater is in a DIRE need of a renovation though. The minute you walk into the lobby, you see the old moldings, pictures hanging of actors long gone, etc. The seats were SO uncomfortable. Oh, and they might be the most uncoordinated and clueless ushers I've seen in some time.
The play is nice and short and has a couple of surprises, but it's not a MUST see. Well, if you like Nina Arianda in leather and lingerie, it IS a must see.
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