Well, i finally made it to broadway - reviewing, that is. This is my first installment of what i hope to be a long and healthy career writing about theater on Broadway.
It was to my absolute surprise and delight when the press rep for the show Private lives, a 1930 comedy written by Noel Coward, agreed to the write up.
Presented at the Music Box theater, it features Kim Cattrall (formerly Samantha Jones of Sex and the City fame) and Paul Gross (of Due South and Slings and Arrows fame) as the quarreling divorced couple, Amanda and Elyot, who meet up again on adjacent balconies while honeymooning in the south of France with their new spouses.
If the premise sounds funny to you, what ensues is a hilarious romp. Ruth Leon of Playbill describes Amanda and Elyot as "the most intriguing and infuriating couple ever to set foot on a stage." I would add, they are the funniest fighters to have ever rekindled the passion. The only agreeing is horizontal.
From the moment Elyot utters "we have to leave" to his new wife Sybil played by Anna Madeley, the fast paced madcap humor kicks in and the romp com begins.
A preview of what's to come between Elyot and Amanda is expressed when she tells Victor, her new husband played by Simon Paisley Day that she "once broke gramophone records over his head" (Elyot's).
I was laughing all the way through this 2 hour and twenty minute production and was especially thrilled to have seen Samantha Jones in the part of Amanda.
Friday, December 2, 2011
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