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Sly Fox
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 1, 2004
Closed Aug 29, 2004
Running Time:
2hr. 15min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

In Larry Gelbart's comedy Sly Fox, directed by Arthur Penn, Foxwell J. Sly and his servant Simon Able, are two devious conmen out to rob from the rich to give to themselves. It's the dawn of the Gold Rush in San Francisco, and with everyone falling over themselves with gold fever, Foxwell and his trusty assistant set out to swindle as many as they can.

The play is based on Ben Jonson's Volpone.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Barrymore Theatre
243 W 47th St
New York, NY 10036


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

One joy of Larry Gelbart's Sly Fox is the fun that the playwright has in mocking the aging and death of privileged males. No one in the play of advanced years is shown any respect whatsoever, and how delightful that unwaveringly cynical attitude is. There's no fool like an old fool, Gelbart is saying -- as did Ben Jonson before him in Volpone, the Elizabethan opus from which the contemporary playwright generously helped himself for the plot of Sly Fox.

The wisest fool here is Foxwell J. Sly (Richard Dreyfuss), who's bilking his avaricious neighbors of their worldly goods -- including one wife -- with the promise of making each of them sole heir to his accumulating fortune. Greedy Abner Truc[...]


Reviewed by David Finkle on Apr 2, 2004

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