Theater Review: Veterans Jane Alexander and James Cromwell play a couple who shock their family by announcing separation plans after 50 years of marriage in Bess Wohl's comedy, 'Grand Horizons'
Not surprisingly, the two sons are aghast at their mother's decision, and by their father's apparent willingness to go along with it. Of course, Bill having "something on the side" — as Nancy puts it about his girlfriend living in a nearby community dubbed "Vista View" — may have something to do with his nonchalance.
That last scene, by the way, feels extraneous, as does an encounter between Brian and a young man he brings to the house for a late-night tryst despite the fact that his parents and sibling are just upstairs and the walls are paper-thin. The lengthy scene, which mainly serves for Urie to showcase his hilarious comedic delivery, feels like padding in an evening that runs two-and-a-quarter hours and seems at least 30 minutes too long.
That much of this formulaic material nonetheless proves highly amusing is a testament to Wohl's often genuinely funny writing, the expert comic direction of Leigh Silverman and the ensemble's terrific performances. The old-fashioned play, co-commissioned by Second Stage and The Williamstown Theatre Festival , feels like a departure coming from the author of such stylistically daring works as.
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