So Help Me God!
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 7, 2009
Closed Dec 20, 2009

Playing at
Lucille Lortel Theatre

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Kristen Johnston, two-time Emmy Award winner for her performance in Third Rock from the Sun will perform the role of Lily in So Help Me God, a fabulous dramatic diva who must fend off a challenge from her ambitious but naïve understudy. Maurine Dallas Watkins's play was written 20 years before All About Eve. So Help Me God! will be directed by Martin Platt.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

Lucille Lortel Theatre
121 Christopher St
New York, NY 10014

This theater is named for the Off-Broadway producer and philanthropist, Lucille Lortel. This space is considered one of the best Off-Broadway theaters in New York. It often houses shows that eventually move on to Broadway.

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

One of the many victims of the stock market crash of 1929 was the Broadway-bound production of a backstage comedy by Maurine Dallas Watkins (who had earlier written the hit 1926 play Chicago) that never made it to New York. Well, better later than never. The Mint Theater, which has so often in the past discovered lost theatrical gems, has outdone itself by finally producing So Help Me God!, now at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, starring the hilarious Kristen Johnston and directed by Jonathan Bank. The result is a backstage comedy with so much bite you can almost see the blood.

The story revolves around Lily Darnley (Johnston) a diva so outlandishly manipulative, demanding, and self-absorbed t[...]

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Reviewed by Barbara and Scott Siegel on Dec 8, 2009