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no doubt owes some of the success of its original 1,097-performance Broadway run to the pedigree team of director Mike Nichols and co-stars George C. Scott and Maureen Stapleton. Arthur Hiller’s 1971 screen version, with Walter Matthau doing triple duty opposite three different women — Stapleton, Barbara Harris and Lee Grant — is mostly forgotten, deemed a failure by Simon himself.
With its attempts at finding the poignancy in a marriage that’s lost its spark butting up against broader sitcom-style gags and one-liners, the play ranks neither with the early zinger factories that made Simon a commercial heavyweight — specifically— or the later, more autobiographical works that sifted through his own early life for insights into the human condition, from. It’s a cute but shallow showcase for two seasoned actors to show their versatility.
The seed for the production was planted in 2017, when Broderick and Parker participated in a staged reading at New York’s Symphony Space, directed by their friend and fellow actor Hickey. While both stars have worked consistently in the 25 years since they were married, they haven’t shared a stage since, back in 1996 when they were still dating.
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