The House of Blue Leaves
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SHOW INFORMATION
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 25, 2011
Closed Jun 25, 2011
Opened Apr 25, 2011
Closed Jun 25, 2011
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Running Time:
2hr. 15min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 15min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Edie Falco received a 2011 Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Featured Role for her performance.
Ben Stiller and Edie Falco return to Broadway in a strictly limited, 16-week engagement of John Guare's comic masterpiece. Stiller is Artie Shaughnessy, a zookeeper and wannabe songwriter, who is trying to cope with a schizophrenic wife, an impatient girlfriend and a visit from the Pope, all while sustaining his dream of hitting it big. Jennifer Jason Leigh also stars in this satirical take on celebrity, religion, and the frequent merging of the two. Directed by David Cromer.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
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A Reader of Plays
I loved this play. You need to not think of Ben Stiller as a Focker and as a real stage actor. He was very good. For the play, go back to the 1960s. This is a great black comedy with a wonderful team of exceptional actors in a thought provoking and quirky play. Invest yourself in the play and you will get more out of it. It is not an easy evening. I took home several of the blue leaves and got Ben Stillers autograph. Make the time and think about the play. You will not regret it.
Reviewed by jfreyer
on Thursday, Apr 28th, 2011
A Reader of Plays
I loved this play. You need to not think of Ben Stiller as a Focker and as a real stage actor. He was very good. For the play, go back to the 1960s. This is a great black comedy with a wonderful team of exceptional actors in a thought provoking and quirky play. Invest yourself in the play and you will get more out of it. It is not an easy evening. I took home several of the blue leaves and got Ben Stillers autograph. Make the time and think about the play. You will not regret it.
Reviewed by jfreyer
on Thursday, Apr 28th, 2011
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Edie Falco has the astonishing ability to disappear completely into any role she takes on. In director David Cromer's only partially successful revival of John Guare's hilarious -- even visionary -- tragicomedy
The House of Blue Leaves, now at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre, she's hardly recognizable as the sanity-challenged Bananas. Slouching around in Tom Watson's lanky, stringy wig and Jane Greenwood's shapeless house-dresses, she's a drudge baffled at what's going on around her.
Watch her with amused and horrified amazement as she tries to make nice to husband, zookeeper and struggling songwriter Artie Shaughnessy (Ben Stiller), by pretending to be an obedient dog. Or, better stil[...]