The Grand Manner
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 27, 2010
Closed Aug 1, 2010
Opened Jun 27, 2010
Closed Aug 1, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
In 1948, playwright A.R. Gurney, then a young boarding school student, traveled to New York where he attended a performance of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, going backstage afterwards to meet the production's star, the great stage actress Katharine Cornell, who was dubbed "The First Lady of the American Stage" by the legendary critic Alexander Woolcott.. A mix of remembrance and imagination, The Grand Manner is a love letter to this fabled actress and a heartfelt look back at the glorious heyday of the Broadway theatre.
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RE:A WINNING "MANNER"
I found A.R.Gurneys latest to be a warm and affectionate valentine to the Broadway of the playwrights youth. Supurbly acted and staged this is as fine a theater evening as you will have on these hot, lazy summer nights. A rich and blissfully satisfying play.
Reviewed by MRBDWAY
on Monday, Jul 19th, 2010
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Katharine Cornell, who was considered one of the greatest stage actresses of her generation, is paid loving tribute in A.R. Gurney's latest play, The Grand Manner, now at Lincoln Center's Mitzi Newhouse Theater. Despite some flaws in both the play and Mark Lamos' production, this is an entertaining 95 minutes that sheds a little bit of light on the grandeur of a true star, who is perhaps not as well remembered as she should be.
The play, which is inspired by an actual meeting the young "Pete" Gurney had with Cornell, takes intentionally self-conscious liberties with the facts to spin a breezy yet at times poignant tale of a woman who feels past her prime and a man who is just starting to [...]