The Man Who Came to Dinner
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 4, 2011
Closed Dec 18, 2011
Opened Dec 4, 2011
Closed Dec 18, 2011
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In this hilarious comedy satire, celebrated critic and radio personality Sheridan Whiteside slips on an icy doorstep while on a December lecture tour. Confined for several weeks of recovery at the Midwestern home of the utterly conventional Mr. and Mrs. Stanley, he proceeds to turn the family's life inside out with his incessant demands, long-distance phone calls and parade of eccentric celebrity guests. As Whiteside's secretary Maggie says, "He would see his mother burned at the stake if that was the only way he could light his cigarette!"
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Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman were the Swiss clockmakers of American comedy, creating immaculate structured laugh machines such as
The Man Who Came to Dinner, which is receiving a more than acceptably polished revival by The Peccadillo Theater Company at the Theatre at St. Clement's, with director Dan Wackermann guiding a cast of over 20 actors with screwball flair.
It's true that when the grade-A work was introduced in 1939, Alexander Woollcott -- the inspiration for the extremely opinionated and curmudgeonly Sheridan Whiteside (Jim Brochu), who is wheeled on stage as having become confined to a Masalia, Ohio home after fracturing his hip following a dinner which he'd reluctantly a[...]