The Violet Hour
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 6, 2003
Closed Dec 21, 2003
Opened Nov 6, 2003
Closed Dec 21, 2003
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Set in 1919, The Violet Hour by Richard Greenberg tells the tale of a driven young publisher at the start of his career - and the mysterious machine that could radically change his future. Robert Sean Leonard, Dagmara Dominczyk, Mario Cantone, Scott Foley, and Robin Miles star in a production directed by Evan Yionoulis for Manhattan Theatre Club.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
Biltmore Theatre
261 W 47th St
New York, NY 10036
The Biltmore Theatre reopened in 2003 after a 16-year vacancy. The theater originally opened in 1925 with the play Easy Come, Easy Go and in the 1930s was the favorite house of director George Abbott, housing his productions of Brother Rat and All Th [...] Read More
261 W 47th St
New York, NY 10036
The Biltmore Theatre reopened in 2003 after a 16-year vacancy. The theater originally opened in 1925 with the play Easy Come, Easy Go and in the 1930s was the favorite house of director George Abbott, housing his productions of Brother Rat and All Th [...] Read More
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Only minutes into Richard Greenberg's stunningly produced new drama, The Violet Hour, the action of which takes place on April 1, 1919, a discussion of post-World War I theater flares. A compulsively chatty assistant named Gidger (Mario Cantone) tells his boss, John Pace Seavering (Robert Sean Leonard), a neophyte publisher, that a current play is "utterly predictable." He insists that "you know what's going to happen the second the maid enters with the bowl of roses." Only minutes after this brief tirade, Seavering's best pal from his Princeton University days, Denis McCleary (Scott Foley), enters with great purpose and almost immediately seizes the opportunity to rail against available dr[...]