Glimpses of the Moon
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 21, 2008
Closed Mar 3, 2008

Playing at
Oak Room--Algonquin Hotel

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Glimpses of the Moon is the first original musical created specifically for the intimate wood-paneled Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel. Set in 1922, Glimpses of the Moon follows the jazzy whirl of Manhattan society, from champagne-soaked dinner parties, to luxurious vacation cottages and back to New York's elegant hotels.

Glimpses of the Moon is one of Edith Wharton's few comedies, though not without its share of heartaches. Popular but penniless, Suzy Branch and her friend Nick Lansing devise the ultimate fund-raising scheme: to marry and live off the wedding gifts while they help one another find suitable millionaires. The plan works perfectly-- until they fall in love.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

Oak Room--Algonquin Hotel
59 W 44th St
New York, NY 10036

The Oak Room is a piano bar and cabaret room.

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

In Taljei Levin and John Mercurio's sprightly chamber musical, Glimpses of the Moon, now playing Monday nights the at the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room, Susy Branch (the gamine Patti Murin) and Nick Lansing (stalwart Stephen Plunkett through February 11, Michael Minarek thereafter) -- cute kids, both -- appear to have a lot in common, including rich friends in high places and a taste for the finer things in life.

Unfortunately, their shared traits also include chronic penury. So the only hope they have of keeping up with the moneyed New York crowd they favor -- it's roaring 1922, after all -- is to bag a well-endowed spouse. While plotting their upward marital mobility, Susy has a bright idea[...]

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Reviewed by Sandy MacDonald on Jan 30, 2008