The Foreigner
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SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Nov 7, 2004
Closed Jan 16, 2005
Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre
Directions & Map
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Two-time Tony Award winners Matthew Broderick and Frances Sternhagen star in Larry Shue's farce The Foreigner, directed by Scott Schwartz, and presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company. Broderick portrays Charlie Baker, a socially phobic Englishman marooned at a Georgia fishing lodge where he poses as a foreigner who speaks no English. Sternhagan plays Betty Meeks, the eccentric widowed proprietor of the Georgia lodge where Charlie vacations with his scheming sidekick "Froggy" LeSueur.
The play tells the uproariously farcical tale of a lovable but socially inept Brit who escapes his stressful life by booking a holiday in backwoods U.S.A. He desperately tries to avoid the local yokels by posing as a foreigner who doesn't understand a word of English. But the plan hilariously backfires when he becomes the perfect person with whom all share their deepest secrets and schemes.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
111 W 46th St
New York, NY 10036
Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre is the new Roundabout Theatre Company's off-Broadway home with two new theatre spaces featuring the 425-seat Laura Pels Theatre. The Laura Pels Theatre programming is dedicated to new plays by establishe [...] Read More
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Normally, I don't set much store by guilty pleasures, but I'm going to make a partial exception with the revival of Larry Shue's comedy The Foreigner. The main reason for this is the cast, headed by Matthew Broderick, whose gift for physical comedy is on full display here and rivals in adorableness what he did in The Producers. In this play, which is one part inspired silliness to three parts uninspired silliness, he's teamed with the much less well-known Kevin Cahoon for a first-act turn that comes close to equaling anything that the celebrated Nathan Lane-Matthew Broderick ticket-selling team did in Mel Brooks' blockbuster. Indeed, the sequence -- an extended mirror routine with table ute[...]