Butley
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 24, 2003
Closed Nov 30, 2003
Opened Oct 24, 2003
Closed Nov 30, 2003
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Three-time Tony Award-winner Nathan Lane, fresh from his triumph in The Producers, performs the title role in Butley, Simon Gray's dark comedy about the unfortunate life of a literary professor who suffers the loss of his wife and his lover all in one day. When Butley's estranged wife Anne announces her intention to marry a mutual friend, and his live-in lover and office mate Joey moves out to join another man, Butley is even more out of sorts than usual. Irascible, brilliant, manic, and above all witty, Ben Butley is one of contemporary theatre's great tragicomic roles. Nicholas Martin directs.
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Ben Butley, a prickly lecturer in English at a fictional British college, is having what could only be termed a horrendous day. His estranged wife turns up at his hovel of an office (Alexander Dodge's set reads as overly spacious and grand) to announce that she wants a divorce in order to marry a friend of theirs, whom Butley decries as "the biggest bore in London." What's worse, Butley's longterm male lover-officemate-mentee, Joey, is showing signs of restlessness as well. With his world collapsing about him, Butley becomes a human wrecking ball.
Rarely performed since Alan Bates's tour de force West End and Broadway renditions of 1971-72, Simon Gray's Butley holds up astoundingly well, ev[...]