Don't Dress For Dinner - 1st Preview
Don't Dress For Dinner - 1st Preview
#1Don't Dress For Dinner - 1st Preview
Posted: 3/30/12 at 9:13pm
Intermission now. This show is HILARIOUS. I smell a big hit for Roundabout with this one. Spencer Kayden is really making a triumphant return to Broadway and Jennifer Tilly is beyond divine!
Updated On: 3/30/12 at 09:13 PM
#2Don't Dress For Dinner
Posted: 3/30/12 at 9:16pmI really don’t know how to read this. Sincere or snark? (We will never know.)
PlayItAgain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/11
#3Don't Dress For Dinner
Posted: 3/30/12 at 9:23pmPleasently surprised, roundabout has a real award contender on their hands, the audience is loving it. Very happy to see something good in this theater after 2 terrible bores.
Jonwo
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/16/06
#4Don't Dress For Dinner
Posted: 3/30/12 at 9:26pmI really liked Boeing Boeing so I imagine Don't Dress for Dinner is similar, given that The American Airlines has nothing going into it until 2013, I wouldnt be surprised if there is an extention should the show take off.
#5Don't Dress For Dinner
Posted: 3/30/12 at 9:36pm
I've never seen Boeing-Boeing - will I be lost?
And what's the runtime?
#6Don't Dress For Dinner
Posted: 3/30/12 at 9:48pm
Jenna, I saw it in London years ago without even knowing that Boeing-Boeing existed and enjoyed it thoroughly. So, no.
Updated On: 3/30/12 at 09:48 PM
#7Don't Dress For Dinner
Posted: 3/30/12 at 10:34pm
After Roundabout has filled the American Airlines with such gems as Man For All Seasons, Man and Boy, The Road to Mecca, Mrs Warren's Profession, Hedda Gabler and the mother of them all, The Philanthropist, I was ready to throw in the towel and skip Don't Dress For Dinner. Thank God I didn't.
This is very, very funny and the type of show Roundabout should be doing all the time. Spencer is truly hysterical! If she's killing it this much at the first preview later audiences better watch out.
Tilly and her breasts the size of Honey Dew Melons are fantastic. Like Colleen Camp in Clue or Dolly in the Whorehouse movie you simply can't take your eyes off them. As they swing back and forth they literally hypnotize the audience.
The rest of the cast is fine, though I admit that I thought about how Rylance would have acted Robert again as he made such a perfect impression before.
Overall it was great fun and I think Roundabout will actually have a hit on their hands with something they produced not directed by Kathleen Marshall.
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
#8Don't Dress For Dinner
Posted: 3/30/12 at 11:31pmIt's a great show,been In it twice ,no shock that its a big hit.
Attend the tale of Bovine Boy
His party threads we all enjoy
But does he have Mad Cow Disease?
He doesn't eat beef - but cows skating? - oh please!!!
With cocoa!?!
And lemonade!?!
The heifer-mad poster of Broadway
(World)
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#9Don't Dress For Dinner
Posted: 3/31/12 at 12:42amWas there tonight as well and enjoyed the show very much. I must say that Spencer Kayden is a comic gem!
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#10Don't Dress For Dinner
Posted: 3/31/12 at 1:10amNow I wish I had seen Boeing-Boeing so I can better appreciate this show.
#11Don't Dress For Dinner
Posted: 3/31/12 at 1:18amSame here RippedMan! So sad I missed it. This sounds hilarious, and it is definitely one I'll be adding to my must see list.
PlayItAgain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/11
#12Don't Dress For Dinner
Posted: 3/31/12 at 1:57amI never saw Boeing Boeing, and I still loved this, Spencer Kayden should win a tony for her part, so funny :)
#14Don't Dress For Dinner
Posted: 3/31/12 at 9:35amIt started late, but I think it was around 2 hours.
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
#15Don't Dress For Dinner
Posted: 3/31/12 at 9:47am
Between these and the NICE WORK reports, it's been a week of encouraging surprises.
CHURCH DOOR TOUCAN GAY MARKETING PUPPIES MUSICAL THEATER STAPLES PERIOD OIL BITCHY SNARK HOLES
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#16Don't Dress For Dinner
Posted: 3/31/12 at 9:52amSeeing this today! Can't wait!
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#17Don't Dress For Dinner
Posted: 3/31/12 at 9:52amSeeing this today! Can't wait!
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#18Don't Dress For Dinner
Posted: 3/31/12 at 11:06amThe Chicago production was fantastic, and Spencer Kayden won a well-deserved Jeff Award for her performance (no easy feat in a farce).
mamaleh
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#19Don't Dress For Dinner
Posted: 3/31/12 at 9:54pm
Saw it this afternoon. It's a well-performed farce with physical bits and great lines that the audience applauded energetically. Ben Daniels, who was so captivating in LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES (which coincidentally is mentioned in this play) is an absolute delight as Robert. Just as good are Spencer Kayden as the cook and just about everything else to at least somebody (that will make sense when you see the show) and Jennifer Tilly, who steals practically every scene she's in.
In sum, this was surprisingly hilarious. So glad I caught it--especially at the $10 offering.
I do have a question, though. In BOEING-BOEING Robert is American, or at least he was as played by the wonderful Mark Rylance in the recent revival. Here he's British. Which was the original concept?
mamaleh
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#20Don't Dress For Dinner
Posted: 3/31/12 at 9:54pmsorry, inadvertent double post Updated On: 3/31/12 at 09:54 PM
Jonwo
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/16/06
#21Don't Dress For Dinner
Posted: 3/31/12 at 10:02pmIn the West End revival, Mark Rylance played Bernard with a Welsh accent but changed it to American for Broadway.
mamaleh
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#23Don't Dress For Dinner
Posted: 3/31/12 at 11:15pmIs it just me but Ben Daniels reminded me of Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory from upstairs.
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#24Don't Dress For Dinner
Posted: 4/1/12 at 1:14am
A bonbon, delightfully presented. Theatre the way it ought to be, and should never have stopped being. It validates Marc Camoletti's gifts as a latter-day Feydeau, and shows just how wonderful his kind of theatre is.
What a refreshing, therapeutic change from the miserable whiners and sewer-mouthed cruds we enounter on our stages today.
Pedants, snots and party poops would do best to avoid it.
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