Don't Dress For Dinner - 1st Preview

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/30/12 at 9:13pm

Intermission now. This show is HILARIOUS. I smell a big hit for Roundabout with this one. Spencer Kayden is really making a triumphant return to Broadway and Jennifer Tilly is beyond divine!

Updated On: 3/30/12 at 09:13 PM

[aasjb4ever]

Posted: 3/30/12 at 9:16pm

I really don’t know how to read this. Sincere or snark? (We will never know.)

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/30/12 at 9:17pm

Very sincere.

[PlayItAgain]

Posted: 3/30/12 at 9:23pm

Pleasently surprised, roundabout has a real award contender on their hands, the audience is loving it. Very happy to see something good in this theater after 2 terrible bores.

[Jonwo]

Posted: 3/30/12 at 9:26pm

I really liked Boeing Boeing so I imagine Don't Dress for Dinner is similar, given that The American Airlines has nothing going into it until 2013, I wouldnt be surprised if there is an extention should the show take off.

[Jenna Maroney]

Posted: 3/30/12 at 9:36pm

I've never seen Boeing-Boeing - will I be lost?

And what's the runtime?

[Calvin]

Posted: 3/30/12 at 9:48pm

Jenna, I saw it in London years ago without even knowing that Boeing-Boeing existed and enjoyed it thoroughly. So, no.

Updated On: 3/30/12 at 09:48 PM

[WhizzerMarvin]

Posted: 3/30/12 at 10:34pm

After Roundabout has filled the American Airlines with such gems as Man For All Seasons, Man and Boy, The Road to Mecca, Mrs Warren's Profession, Hedda Gabler and the mother of them all, The Philanthropist, I was ready to throw in the towel and skip Don't Dress For Dinner. Thank God I didn't.

This is very, very funny and the type of show Roundabout should be doing all the time. Spencer is truly hysterical! If she's killing it this much at the first preview later audiences better watch out.

Tilly and her breasts the size of Honey Dew Melons are fantastic. Like Colleen Camp in Clue or Dolly in the Whorehouse movie you simply can't take your eyes off them. As they swing back and forth they literally hypnotize the audience.

The rest of the cast is fine, though I admit that I thought about how Rylance would have acted Robert again as he made such a perfect impression before.

Overall it was great fun and I think Roundabout will actually have a hit on their hands with something they produced not directed by Kathleen Marshall.

[harris007]

Posted: 3/30/12 at 11:31pm

It's a great show,been In it twice ,no shock that its a big hit.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 3/31/12 at 12:42am

Was there tonight as well and enjoyed the show very much. I must say that Spencer Kayden is a comic gem!

[RippedMan]

Posted: 3/31/12 at 1:10am

Now I wish I had seen Boeing-Boeing so I can better appreciate this show.

[bookofmel]

Posted: 3/31/12 at 1:18am

Same here RippedMan! So sad I missed it. This sounds hilarious, and it is definitely one I'll be adding to my must see list.

[PlayItAgain]

Posted: 3/31/12 at 1:57am

I never saw Boeing Boeing, and I still loved this, Spencer Kayden should win a tony for her part, so funny :)

[bjh2114]

Posted: 3/31/12 at 9:18am

What was the run time last night?

[WhizzerMarvin]

Posted: 3/31/12 at 9:35am

It started late, but I think it was around 2 hours.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 3/31/12 at 9:47am

Between these and the NICE WORK reports, it's been a week of encouraging surprises.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 3/31/12 at 9:52am

Seeing this today! Can't wait!

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 3/31/12 at 9:52am

Seeing this today! Can't wait!

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 3/31/12 at 11:06am

The Chicago production was fantastic, and Spencer Kayden won a well-deserved Jeff Award for her performance (no easy feat in a farce).

[mamaleh]

Posted: 3/31/12 at 9:54pm

Saw it this afternoon. It's a well-performed farce with physical bits and great lines that the audience applauded energetically. Ben Daniels, who was so captivating in LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES (which coincidentally is mentioned in this play) is an absolute delight as Robert. Just as good are Spencer Kayden as the cook and just about everything else to at least somebody (that will make sense when you see the show) and Jennifer Tilly, who steals practically every scene she's in.

In sum, this was surprisingly hilarious. So glad I caught it--especially at the $10 offering.

I do have a question, though. In BOEING-BOEING Robert is American, or at least he was as played by the wonderful Mark Rylance in the recent revival. Here he's British. Which was the original concept?

[mamaleh]

Posted: 3/31/12 at 9:54pm

sorry, inadvertent double post Updated On: 3/31/12 at 09:54 PM

[Jonwo]

Posted: 3/31/12 at 10:02pm

In the West End revival, Mark Rylance played Bernard with a Welsh accent but changed it to American for Broadway.

[mamaleh]

Posted: 3/31/12 at 11:05pm

Ah, thanks for the character history.

[beensince1987]

Posted: 3/31/12 at 11:15pm

Is it just me but Ben Daniels reminded me of Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory from upstairs.

[After Eight]

Posted: 4/1/12 at 1:14am

A bonbon, delightfully presented. Theatre the way it ought to be, and should never have stopped being. It validates Marc Camoletti's gifts as a latter-day Feydeau, and shows just how wonderful his kind of theatre is.

What a refreshing, therapeutic change from the miserable whiners and sewer-mouthed cruds we enounter on our stages today.

Pedants, snots and party poops would do best to avoid it.