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[edjames]

Can't say I hated it, but I wasn't overwhelmed either. Written by Steve Martin, directed by Jerry Zaks, and starring the very popular Amy Shummer and Keegan-Michael Key this production ends its run on January 21.

 

It’s a hot night in Ojai, California, and Corky (Amy Schumer) and her husband Norm (Jeremy Shamos) are having another couple over for dinner. But Laura (Laura Benanti) and Gerald (Keegan-Michael Key) aren't looking for a casual evening of polite small talk with new friends. Eventually, the two couples find themselves in a marital free-fall matched in velocity and peril only by the smoldering space rocks tearing through the sky. Entertaining has never been more entertaining than in this “cosmic comedy from the master of the American absurd” (Variety).

 

Bizarrely funny and widely strange, it runs 80 minutes. Amy has proven to be a big box-office draw and the advanced sales went through the roof.

 

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

Benanti was, for me, the saving grace.