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A Naked Girl on the Appian Way
producer: Roundabout Theatre Company
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The verbal pyrotechnics of playwright Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out, The Violet Hour) return to Broadway by way of this comedy about two children coming home from a European vacation.
Closing Performance at the American Airlines Theatre: December 4, 2005
If you're looking for a slightly elevated, yet accessible evening (one that you can take Uncle Mike and Aunt Marie to for a first taste of Broadway, yet still have a decent time yourself), this drawing-room comedy for the 21st century might be the ticket. The banter is light, the situations wild (best for mature audiences on both counts), and the production is as finely constructed as any in town. When the children return from vacation with some interesting entanglements, the always-sensitive family (Richard Thomas and Jill Clayburgh) are forced to reconcile their elevated life with the morass into which the children seem to have fallen.
Quick primer, there are two kinds of Broadway shows - the commercial, and the not-for-profit. The nonprofit efforts tend to come from Manhattan Theater Club, Lincoln Center Theater, and (as here) the Roundabout. The conventional wisdom is that these shows are more artistically high-minded than their commercial counterparts (though there was that Burt Bacharach revue a couple seasons back...). You'll also notice that the audiences at the not-for-profit shows tend to have more local folks and frequent theatregoers (often they are subscribers to the nonprofit's season), and tend to skew to the older side of the age spectrum.
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