Writer's Block
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 15, 2003
Closed Jun 29, 2003
Opened May 15, 2003
Closed Jun 29, 2003
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Running Time:
2hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 0min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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Writer's Block consists of two one-act plays, entitled "Riverside Drive" and "Old Saybrook," written and directed by Woody Allen. "Riverside Drive" takes place on Riverside Drive in New York City and "Old Saybrook" takes place in a house in Connecticut. Bebe Neuwirth and Paul Reiser headline the cast, which also includes Kate Blumberg, Annabelle Gurwitch, Clea Lewis, Richard Portnow, Grant Shaud, Skipp Sudduth, Jay Thomas, and Christopher Evan Welch.
A limited number of seats will be sold at the box office two hours before each performance. The tickets are $50 each and must be purchased with cash only on a first come first served basis.
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As the black show scrim goes up on "Old Saybrook," the better of two middle-drawer one-acts that make up Woody Allen's Writer's Block, sound designer Scott Myers airs a few measures of the sweeping Jerome Kern melody for "Make Believe." The audience is thereby tipped that the mischievous author is poised to introduce a literary game of some sort.
And indeed, about two-thirds of the way into this bagatelle of a play, Allen springs one of the magic-realism twists that have sparked such previous works of his as "The Kugelmass Episode," the short story in which a modern-day protagonist has an affair with Emma Bovary, and The Purple Rose of Cairo, the film wherein a drab '30s housewife is romanc[...]