Artist: Match
Genre: Broadway
Background: Stephen Belber's Match is the
first new play to open cold on Broadway in a gazillion years
(we looked it up). The drama, starring two Tony winners and
a Hollywood star/Broadway newbie (Frank Langella, Jane Adams
and Ray Liotta, respectively) opened on Broadway on April
8. To celebrate, the cast and company headed to Chelsea hotspot
Metronome for toasting, cheering and joyful partying.
"I love my life. I regret my life. After a while the
lines blur and all it is is my life." So says Tobi, the
central character in Stephen Belber's gripping comic drama
Match. Played by the excellent Frank Langella, Tobi is a choreographer
and dance instructor at Juilliard. Now in his 60s, he lives
alone in a cluttered apartment in Inwood. As the play progresses,
the decisions that he made in the past have repercussions
in the present. Tobi is forced to consider that age-old question,
"If I had to do it all again, would I make different
choices?"
A drama by one of the hottest new playwrights on the theater
scene, Match is making its world premiere with this Broadway
engagement. In the show, a husband and wife arrive on the
doorstep of a once renowned dancer to interview him about
his past. By night's end what they have learned will change
them all forever.
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