Our Leading Lady
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SHOW INFORMATION
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 20, 2007
Closed Apr 22, 2007
Opened Mar 20, 2007
Closed Apr 22, 2007
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Laura Keene, a 19th century American stage luminary, prepares to perform at Ford's Theatre on the fateful night when Abraham Lincoln is in the audience. This new play captures the magic of the theatre as only Charles Busch can. Directing is MTC's Lynne Meadow, who staged Busch's The Tale of the Allergist Wife.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
New York City Center - Stage II
131 W 55th St
New York, NY 10019
Manhattan Theatre Club's second stage is a 150 seat Off-Broadway theater with a three-sided thrust stage. The stage has excellent sightlines. Seating is first-come first-serve, so arrive early.
131 W 55th St
New York, NY 10019
Manhattan Theatre Club's second stage is a 150 seat Off-Broadway theater with a three-sided thrust stage. The stage has excellent sightlines. Seating is first-come first-serve, so arrive early.
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Playwright Charles Busch's purpose is unclear during the campy first act of Our Leading Lady, a semi-comic work that imagines backstage events before, during, and after Abraham Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theater in April 1865. Where, oh where is Our Leading Lady leading, you vainly wonder as the intermission begins. What Busch is getting at only begins to come into focus at the start of the second act, when veteran actress Maude Bentley laments John Wilkes Booth's homicidal gesture, saying: "The delicate ribbon of affection that binds public and player together has been severed."
The author's intentions are even more obvious towards the denouement of this disappointing period exerc[...]