Roundabout Theatre Company presents the world premiere production of Skintight, by Roundabout Underground alumnus Joshua Harmon Bad Jews, Significant Other, with direction by three-time Obie Award winner Daniel Aukin Bad Jews. The cast includes Will Brittain as 'Trey,' Stephen Carrasco as 'Jeff,' Eli Gelb as 'Benjamin Cullen,' Cynthia Mace as 'Orsolya,' Idina Menzel as 'Jodi Isaac' and Jack Wetherall as 'Elliot Isaac.'...
- 6/22/2018
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Roundabout Theatre Company presents the world premiere production of Skintight, by Roundabout Underground alumnus Joshua Harmon Bad Jews, Significant Other, with direction by three-time Obie Award winner Daniel Aukin Bad Jews. The cast includes Will Brittain as 'Trey,' Stephen Carrasco as 'Jeff,' Eli Gelb as 'Benjamin Cullen,' Cynthia Mace as 'Orsolya,' Idina Menzel as 'Jodi Isaac' and Jack Wetherall as 'Elliot Isaac.'...
- 6/22/2018
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Although Idina Menzel looks fabulous in “Skintight,” the new play by Joshua Harmon, her character, Jodi Isaac, is a total wreck when she flies into New York for her father’s 70th birthday. Jodi’s middle-aged husband has left her for a 24-year-old, and all her friends have deserted her for the happy couple. Furthermore, she’s approaching her sell-by date of 50.
Not that Jodi gets much sympathy from her dear old dad, Elliot Isaac, who is himself in a fulfilling relationship with 20-year-old Trey. That makes Elliott’s paramour exactly the same age as his grandson, Benjamin Cullen. But, again, who’s counting? Jodi is.
Harmon has written Jodi a delicious opening aria of unabashed self-pity, which Menzel delivers like the diva she is. Raging about her husband’s new love interest, she erupts in outraged scorn. Wondering out loud what a 50-year-old man and a 24-year-old gym bunny can even talk about,...
Not that Jodi gets much sympathy from her dear old dad, Elliot Isaac, who is himself in a fulfilling relationship with 20-year-old Trey. That makes Elliott’s paramour exactly the same age as his grandson, Benjamin Cullen. But, again, who’s counting? Jodi is.
Harmon has written Jodi a delicious opening aria of unabashed self-pity, which Menzel delivers like the diva she is. Raging about her husband’s new love interest, she erupts in outraged scorn. Wondering out loud what a 50-year-old man and a 24-year-old gym bunny can even talk about,...
- 6/22/2018
- by Marilyn Stasio
- Variety Film + TV
Are you a fan of Queer as Folk? Recently, the cast reunited and spoke with Entertainment Weekly about the groundbreaking Showtime TV show.Based on the UK series of the same name, the drama follows the lives of a group of young gay men and women living in the Philadelphia area. The Showtime series ran for five seasons before ending in 2005 and starred Gale Harold, Randy Harrison, Hal Sparks, Scott Lowell, Peter Paige, Sharon Gless, Thea Gill, Michelle Clunie, Robert Gant, Jack Wetherall, and Sherry Miller.Read More…...
- 6/13/2018
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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