Prisoner of Second Avenue
Neurotic middle-aged New Yorker Mel Edison is fired from his advertising job, forcing his loving wife, Edna, to become the couple’s sole breadwinner.
Neurotic middle-aged New Yorker Mel Edison is fired from his advertising job, forcing his loving wife, Edna, to become the couple’s sole breadwinner.
Elwood P. Dowd is an affable man who claims to have an unseen (and presumably imaginary) friend Harvey — whom Elwood describes as a six-foot, three-and-one-half-inch (192 cm) tall pooka resembling an anthropomorphic rabbit.
Paul and Corie Bratter are newlyweds in every sense of the word. He’s a straight-as-an-arrow lawyer and she’s a free spirit always looking for the latest kick. Their new apartment is her most recent find – too expensive with bad plumbing and in need of a paint job. After a six-day honeymoon, they get a surprise visit from Corie’s loopy mother and decide to play matchmaker during a dinner with their neighbor-in-the-attic, Velasco, where everything that can go wrong, does. Paul just doesn’t understand Corie, as she sees it. He’s too staid, too boring, and she just wants him to be a little more spontaneous. Running “barefoot in the park” would be a start…
The Jazz Age lives on in Sandy Wilson’s The Boy Friend,a light romantic spoof of 1920s musical comedy. Written in the fifties as “a new musical of the twenties,” this is still considered the most successful and witty of the send-up musicals.
The smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives offers up fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting “happy medium,” one Madame Arcati.