Dinner at Eight
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 19, 2002
Closed Jan 26, 2003
Opened Dec 19, 2002
Closed Jan 26, 2003
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Lincoln Center presents a new production of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber?s 1932 play Dinner at Eight, directed by Gerald Gutierrez. The play peers into the lives of a group of high society New Yorkers during the 1930s. As a social-climbing Park Avenue hostess hurriedly organizes a dinner party in honor of visiting English nobility, the action skips around the city to reveal the background of each of the invited guests and the business intrigues and clandestine romantic entanglements that link them all together.
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The word "swank" has been in the language since the early 1800s, but it reached its peak in the 1930s when swank -- meaning a classy combination of money and taste -- was a much-coveted attribute. Examples of swank probably don't get better than the star-studded 1933 film adaptation of George S. Kaufman's and Edna Ferber's Dinner at Eight. Written in 1932, the play was both a Depression-era knock at swank as a superficial cover-up for deep societal fissures and a celebration of swank as a helpful tool for muddling through.
There's plenty for swank lovers in the very look of Lincoln Center Theater's Dinner at Eight revival. John Lee Beatty, than whom no one alive today does better upscale[...]