reasons to be pretty
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SHOW INFORMATION
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 2, 2009
Closed Jun 14, 2009
Opened Apr 2, 2009
Closed Jun 14, 2009
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Running Time:
2hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Nominated for 3 Tony Awards including Best Play!
MCC Theater's presentation of Neil LaBute's bristling new comic drama reasons to be pretty transfers to Broadway!
America's obsession with physical beauty is confronted headlong in this brutal and exhilarating new play. In reasons to be pretty, Greg's tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhanded remarks about a female coworker's pretty face (and his girlfriend's lack thereof) get back to said girlfriend. But that's just the beginning.
Greg's best buddy Kent, and Kent's wife Carly also enter into the picture and the emotional equation becomes exponentially more complicated. As their relationships crumble, the four friends are forced to confront a sea of deceit, infidelity and betrayed trust in their journey to answer that oh-so-American question: How much is pretty worth?
Beginning Monday, June 15, 2009 the show will play Mondays at 8:00 p.m., Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m., Wednesdays at 2:00 & 8:00 p.m., Thursdays and Fridays at 8:00 p.m. and Saturdays at 2:00 & 8:00 p.m.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
Lyceum Theatre
149 W 45th St
New York, NY 10036
Built in 1903 by Daniel Frohman, the Lyceum is the oldest Broadway theater in New York. The architect had an apartment over the stage where he could keep an eye on the action. The Great Depression forced Frohman into bankruptcy. He sold the theate [...] Read More
149 W 45th St
New York, NY 10036
Built in 1903 by Daniel Frohman, the Lyceum is the oldest Broadway theater in New York. The architect had an apartment over the stage where he could keep an eye on the action. The Great Depression forced Frohman into bankruptcy. He sold the theate [...] Read More
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
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RE:Reasons To Be Pretty
I saw the play off broadway last summer and it was simply fantastic!
All 4 actors do a great job and its so incredible that the two female characters are best friends and did not have one scene together on stage
I highly recommend it
Reviewed by anthony0359
on Sunday, Dec 21st, 2008
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No one familiar with the work of Neil LaBute will be surprised at hearing that his transferred-to-Broadway reasons to be pretty, now at the Lyceum Theatre, begins with a twentysomething man and woman going at it hammer and tongs in a series of he-versus-she recriminations. But despite the inclusion of the sort of starkly incisive and abusive talk of the sort at which LaBute excels, the play -- which has been somewhat trimmed for its uptown incarnation -- still registers as a "here-we-go-again" enterprise.
Fortunately, its flaws are partially redeemed by its four-person cast: Thomas Sadoski, who has deepened his already probing performance as factory worker Greg, the intensely gifted Mar[...]