Room Service
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SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Jul 10, 2006
Closed Aug 5, 2006
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
The Peccadillo Theater Company presents John Murray and Allen Boretz's Room Service, a classic American farce from 1937!
Generally considered one of the funniest American plays of the 1930's, Room Service centers around a slippery theatrical producer, trying to find a backer for his new show while holed up in a Times Square hotel with nineteen starving actors. Hoping to forestall eviction, he convinces the show's gullible young playwright to fake his own death. Meanwhile, an emissary from one of the country's wealthiest businessmen turns up with money to invest; that is, until he discovers the hotel doctor bound and gagged in the bathroom. The situation goes from bad to worse as the irascible manager of the hotel threatens to have the entire show confiscated by the sheriff on opening night! Dan Wackerman directs.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
155 Bank St
New York, NY 10014
The Bank Street Theatre is a 4,000 square foot, 83-seat part of Westbeth Arts Complex West Village. It is wheelchair accessible and features both air conditioning and heat.
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Slamming doors are supposedly damaging to soufflés, but there is a scintillating exception to that rule: the Pecadillo Theatre Company's revival of the 1937 John Murray-Allen Boretz farce Room Service. There are four doors on Chris Jones' Manhattan hotel-room set which are constantly being slammed by the frantic characters. Yet, when the slamming has ceased, director Dan Wackerman has baked a nearly perfect theatrical soufflé.
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