One Man, Two Guvnors
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SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Apr 18, 2012
Open Run
2hr. 30min.
(includes 1 intermission)
Visit the One Man, Two Guvnors website:
http://onemantwoguvnorsbroadway.com
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Nominated for 7 Tony Awards, including Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for James Corden!
In One Man, Two Guvnors, James Corden stars as "Francis Henshall" ("One Man"). Always-famished and easily-confused, Henshall agrees to work for a local gangster as well as a criminal in hiding ("Two Guvnors"), both of whom are linked in a tangled web of schemes and romantic associations... none of which Francis can keep straight. So he has to do everything in his power to keep his two guvnors from meeting while trying to eat anything in sight along the way. Simple.
Falling trousers, flying fish heads, star-crossed lovers, cross-dressing mobsters and a fabulous on-stage band are just some of what awaits at the most "deliriously funny" (The Daily Telegraph) new play to cross the pond in decades.
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In Broadway's long history, there may have been a comedy as funny as
One Man, Two Guvnors, now at the Music Box Theater under Nicholas Hytner's razor-sharp direction, but it's a safe bet there's never been one funnier than Richard Bean's belly-laugh-rich adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's classic Servant of Two Masters.
A large part of the side-splitting result is due to the great James Corden, a Tweedle-dum of a figure who makes a huge splash on the Great White Way as the one man of the title: the down-on-his-luck-and-hungry Francis Henshall who accepts dual positions as flunky to sleek upper-class twit Stanley Stubbers (Oliver Chris) and Rachel Crabbe (Jemima Rooper), who is disguised [...]