The Man Who Came To Dinner
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jul 27, 2000
Closed Oct 8, 2000
Opened Jul 27, 2000
Closed Oct 8, 2000
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The Roundabout Theatre Company presents The Man Who Came to Dinner, directed by Jerry Zaks and starring Nathan Lane. This comedy classic written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman had a successful run after opening on Broadway in 1939, and subsequently became a film, a musical, and a television movie (with Orson Welles in the Nathan Lane role!). Lane is Sheridan Whiteside, a pompous writer and critic who is forced to stay with a Midwestern family during the winter and thoroughly disrupts their well-ordered lives. Jean Smart and Lewis J. Stadlen also star.
This will be the inaugral production at the new American Airlines Theater (formely known as the Selwyn).
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When George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart wrote and then Kaufman directed The Man Who Came to Dinner for its initial October, 1939-July, 1941 run, they were confident audiences would instantly recognize their protagonist, Sheridan Whiteside. They were spoofing Alexander Woollcott, who was known to radio audiences across the land for his mellifluously acid savoir faire. The team's satiric intent was to give the famous
gadabout-gadfly a harsh, if eventually affectionate, ribbing.
That's undoubtedly why, in depicting the behind-the-scenes Woollcott--er, Whiteside--they began by demonstrating how insensitive the man could be. They thought to get their laughs by showing how Woollcott employed his[...]