According To Tip
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 27, 2008
Closed Jul 17, 2008
Opened Jun 27, 2008
Closed Jul 17, 2008
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A World Premiere by Dick FlavinDirected by Rick LombardoMusic Supervision by Todd C. GordonRe-elect Tip! Just in time for election season, New Rep brings you the World Premiere of According To Tip. Featuring Broadway and TV star Ken Howard, this play traces the colorful and historically memorable career of Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, former Speaker of the House. Tip will escort you back in time from Barry's Corner in Cambridge to the White House. Get the inside scoop on politics during the Red Scare, Watergate, and Vietnam in this touching played filled with humor, music, and beguiling Irish wit.
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New Repertory Theatre at Arsenal Center for the Arts
321 Arsenal St
Watertown, MA 02472
Subscribers can save up to 40% off regular prices, and prices for the five-play season range from $146 to $220. The Charles Mosesian Theater is the mainstage and has a capacity of 339 (384 for A Christmas Carol). Down Stage @ New Rep shows are [...] Read More
321 Arsenal St
Watertown, MA 02472
Subscribers can save up to 40% off regular prices, and prices for the five-play season range from $146 to $220. The Charles Mosesian Theater is the mainstage and has a capacity of 339 (384 for A Christmas Carol). Down Stage @ New Rep shows are [...] Read More
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You don't have to come from Massachusetts to appreciate the kind of politician Tip O'Neill was or to understand the reverence in which he's still held, more than a decade after his death. In
According to Tip, Dan Flavin's rumpled suit of a solo play about the late Speaker of the House, now at Watertown's New Rep, Ken Howard captures him perfectly: a genuinely humble man, who never forgot his working-class roots or stinted on his mission to stand up for "the little guy" -- and one who was always ready with a common-sense approach to problems, from the interpersonal to the international.
Flavin's script and Janie E. Howland's set places O'Neill at the peak of his power
-- comfortably ensco[...]