It's not every production that boasts a primate behavioral specialist among its personnel, but this one does. (Garon Michael is the fellow's name.) The show is Mark Medoff's Prymate -- the title is deliberately misspelled -- and it's the Broadway transfer of a lauded Florida State University production staffed by theater heavyweights affiliated with that institution. Playwright Medoff is signed on there and so are director Ed Sherin, costume designer Colleen Muscha, and sound designer Michael Smith. What's more, André De Shields had the title role at FSU, playing the eponymous primate in brown t-shirt, loose shorts, and black gloves and shoes.

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