The Man Who Came to Dinner

This comedy makes fun of the 1938 New York social set. It centers around Sheridan Whiteside, who having dined at the home of the Stanleys, slips on their doorstep and breaks his hip. A tumultuous six weeks of confinement at the Stanleys follow with hilarious complications such as ex-convicts being invited to meals, strange exotic gifts arriving from friends, transatlantic calls reaping $784 phone bills and the summoning of a glamorous actress to woo away Whiteside’s secretary’s boyfriend. One of the American stage’s endearing classics.