I adore Sunday matinees….for many reasons they really can work…You can get up late, read the paper, go out to a Brunch…better than a movie, and the 3Pm curtain is just the right time especially when there is rain (as there was this weekend)…
I am happy to report there was no “food realism” in my experience at Second Stage Theater for the showing of Mr. & Mrs. Fitch (oh wait, yes there was a lady eating an apple when we were going to our seats, but I decided to not notice!). This theater club has just the best shows..the last one was a one woman show with Anna Devere Smith, and this show is with John Lithgow and Jennifer Ehle..just the two of them and a set that is an apartment in NY (“2000+ Square feet in a desirable part of Manhattan”)…just one of the laughs I got in this show.
Perhaps it is that I spent my life in the magazine world, perhaps it is that I still read WWD, perhaps I was on the fringe of the “cool kids” in my involvement in fashion etc….and the fact that the actors are writers trying to still be “cool” in the internet age with things like this blog….and all the other social media we are trying to understand….I think I saw some review that mentioned that the show is a kind of “Noel Coward but not as witty” thing……well, it is like Noel Coward, but not lacking in any way and hysterical…it just touched so many points in my life.
What I adored was that all the people they spoke about were referred to in journalistic verbiage…..like “she who wanted to be noticed” and “the impoverished royal” etc…..of course one of my favorites was the description of a certain newspaper “owned by an Australian whose headlines always could be followed by “do da do da”…..(read the New York Post)…I just couldn’t stop laughing……(NOTE TO MY FRIEND LARRY…THEY HAVE A CHARACTER WHO IS CALLED ‘HE SHE”)
Here is the official description of the show….Meet gossip columnists Mr. and Mrs. Fitch. When the social circuit no longer provides juicy morsels, they find that great celebrity can appear out of thin air. Tony Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane’s wicked new comedy is a scathing look at who is in, who is out and who may not even exist at all.
This show is contemporary, witty, funny, sophisticated and I just can’t say more……I loved it..go get tickets..here is the Second Stage Website:
