Peter Felicia (28:45)
Well, the title may surprise when you hear the what actually goes on, because it is about a different type of diverting. This is in an Office Building, 520 Eighth Avenue. You gotta take. You gotta show your ID at the desk. You gotta go up to the ninth floor. You go into a room that isn't a theater per se. There are comfortable enough chairs, not seats in an arena style setting. And what happens after that is one of the best plays of the year. It was amazing to me and again, proof that theatrical magic can strike anywhere. Let me also point out that I went on a Saturday night and I had to leave at intermission and I came back the next day at intermission to see how it finished. Believe me, there are plenty of plays under those circumstances that I would have left and not returned. There was no question I was returning for this one. So I was astonishingly impressed by what I saw here, partly because the cast is so magnificent. There are ensemble awards that are given by various groups and I hope that this one is on the nominator's radar because boy, do these people work well together. Okay, so what has Scott Organ written? He's written a play that takes place in a breakout room in a hospital. Most everybody's dressed in that. Those blue uniforms and a traditional start where you have somebody new who doesn't know the ropes nearly as well as everybody else. And some people want to be helpful, including Amelia, who's very nice. Some people are just contemptuous of the fact that, that, that the person's new because that person's seen it all. It's not easy to work at a hospital because after all, you don't see people at their best, do you? So really this is a tribute to how hard nurses work as well. And boy, do they ever. Okay, so Amy is the one who's not very nice to our. Our newest recruit. Her name is Mandy. She's played by an actress whose first name is west. As you know, as opposed to east, that type of West Duchovne. So we think that this is going to be about how difficult it. It's going to be to be a nurse and all that, and that's part of it. But what's happened is somebody's been stealing Fentanyl. And which of the group is the one who's guilty. The boss comes in, the head nurse and gives a beautiful speech indicating, look, if you have a problem, please come to me before it gets really severe, because the law is going to come into this if. If you don't own up soon. So damage control, do the best you can right now. She's so lovely, just absolutely lovely in the way that she delivers this speech. Her name is Thais T H H A I S this is the actress's name, Bass, B A S S Moore. Tremendous. You can really tell she should be a leader. So that's tremendously effective as well. Okay, so nobody owns up. Now. The irony is you would think in a play like this, it would be in the last five minutes you would find out who's the guilty party. So that doesn't happen at all. No, what does happen is you find out at the end of the first act. In fact, there's a moment where you're rather surprised that I'm trying to not give away who's the bad guy. You're rather surprised that somebody on the staff would do what the new person wants her to do. Why she wouldn't do that, but there's a reason she does. So that's. So you think so again, I left it into mission. Where could this possibly go? We know who did it. You know, usually it takes a while before you know who done it. Well, well, not necessarily here. And what happens in the second act is even more. Just more galvanizing. One surprise after the other. So a tremendously successful show. Director Seth Barish, who of course is a big wheel at the Barrow Group, co founder, I believe, beautifully directs it, and again chose a cast if 90% of successive productions direct casting, which we often hear, fine, but he certainly delivered the other 10% as well. So a wonderful experience and you feel so much for these people. And I also want to give a shout out to the person who comes in to investigate her name. The actress's name is Colleen Clinton, and she is really good because she's trying to find information. She's also trying to act as if she's on your side. And she ingratiates herself into each of the people's lives, seeming to be this nice, good guy's curious, you know, I mean, that type of thing. Just out of curiosity, it comes that she knows what she's doing. She's very skillful in getting what she needs to know out of people without them realizing that she just did it. You know, it's not until after. Oh, I shouldn't have said that. Wow. But the way she asked the question. Yeah, so it's very skillful. I'm telling you, this show is supposed to close today. I am so glad that it's extended to January 11th, and I wish it extends beyond that. But the real bottom line is, again, as I've often said, if tourists who come to New York, yeah, of course you want to see the big Broadway shows. Of course you do. But donate a night to Off Off Broadway because you will find such riches there too. There's so much talent to go around. There aren't that many opportunities. So a lot of amazing people work off Off Broadway and here is a perfect example of that in diversion.
