He wouldn't meld well into a section. Glimmer, Leight says, is based as much on Leight's contemporaries as on his father's jazz buddies. Ultimately, he says, the new work is about the prices people pay to work in any art. In Previews opening Outta Sight Actress Polly Draper most recently scored with a terrific performance as a scatterbrained woman well past the verge of a nervous breakdown in Marsha Norman's Trudy Blue. Now, in Melanie Marnich's new comic drama Blur at the Manhattan Theatre Club, she'll be losing it again.
Draper plays a mother who's unusually dependent on a teenage daughter.
In previews for a May 17 opening. When you step back and think about it, most Broadway musicals really do seem so ludicrous, so maudlin, and so overwrought that a spoof would seem to be overkill. A Spoof Odyssey moves to the Douglas Fairbanks Theatre, in the middle of enemy territory on the 42nd parallel.