Dead Man's Cell Phone is the latest completely sold-out play at Playwright's Horizons, featuring the lovely and talented Mary Louise Parker as... a woman who answers a dead man's cell phone. Then keeps answering it. Apparently forever and for no comprehensible reason. This, naturally, leads her to some pretty strange adventures as she tries to comfort family members with outright lies.
Good things about this show include it's wit, style, sets, sound design, and acting. Bad things about this show include its lack of character development, nearly incomprehensible story, mixed metaphors and messages, and the general slight discomfort it inspires. At intermission, I texted my friend to say "I think I love this show." By the end of Act Two, that was no longer true. I certainly liked it, but the second act did not fulfill the potential of the first, opting instead to dabble in surreal mysticism and quasi-social commentary.
Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening is a rather dated version of this classic Broadway spoof show by now, having had its last major update 7 or 8 months ago. Many of the jokes fell a little flat, but the spoofs of Company (including a brilliant Raul parody called "Being Intense") and Spring Awakening were pretty hilarious. I'm glad that I saw it, but, well, it's Forbidden Broadway. Nothing surprised me.
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