In 'Plaza Suite,' Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick drown the pangs of middle age in room-service champagne. Read Helen_E_Shaw's review
Photo: Joan Marcus When you go thumbing through Broadway listings of the yonder years, one thing jumps out. Infidelity and wonky-marriage plots were once reliable moneymakers among the non-musicals. Adult farces were so prevalent when William Goldman wrote about the 1967–68 season that he included an entire chapter dedicated just to sex comedies. It’s hard to imagine now. Watching the revival of Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite at the Hudson Theatre, you do at least get a window into why.
The trio of one-acts — Visitor From Mamaroneck, Visitor From Hollywood, and Visitor From Forest Hills — all take place in Room 719 of New York’s Plaza Hotel. The visitors, played by Parker and Broderick in a variety of wigs, have the slightly alienated perspective of the out-of-towner; they see things outside the Plaza’s lavishly beswagged windows that a local might take for granted.
History repeats as Mamaroneck tragedy then as Forest Hills farce, as somebody said. And there’s nothing that reminds you more of history’s repetitions than a daughter’s wedding day, when the generational cycle turns. The third playlet goes broad as a barn with Norma and Roy, the dyspeptic parents of a reluctant bride, Mimsey, who is refusing to come out of the suite’s bathroom.
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