Biography
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 13, 2007
Closed May 20, 2007
Opened Apr 13, 2007
Closed May 20, 2007
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
S.N. Behrman's sparkling comedy Biography took Broadway by storm in 1932 becoming the (then) longest running show on the Great White Way. Dazzling Marion Froude, good-hearted and charming, could boast - but she wouldn't - the widest circle of friends in Manhattan. Now they're at war. Marion's newest beau, a fiery young activist, has asked her to write a tell-all memoir about her free-spirited life as an artist to the rich and famous, and her romantic conquests among them. But when rumors of the memoir reach an old flame - now running for the U.S. Senate - he blusters back into Marion's life, vowing to use all his influence to crush her book. Marion, determined to steer a middle course in an age of extremists, just wishes everyone would calm down. Behrman's lively portrayal offers us a New York City that was - and is - a maddening, marvelous clash of cultures, cliques, ideologies, and ethics.
The Sunday evening performance on April 22, 2007 is scheduled for 8:00 PM, not the usual time of 7:00 PM.
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It's not unusual after a playwright's death for his or her work to be reassessed negatively and then put on an out-of-reach shelf to gather dust quietly. That's pretty much what happened to S. N. Behrman, who died in 1973 after having had some 20 of his comedies successfully produced on Broadway with the finest stars of the era (such as Lynne Fontanne, Alfred Lunt, and Ruth Gordon) adorning them. You could say that after having been the toast of the Great White Way, he was suddenly just toast.
Fortunately, the Pearl Theatre Company's thoroughly slick and thoroughly entertaining production of his 1932 comedy
Biography confirms that the playwright deserves an updated review.
Indeed, the [...]