[Fredslist] DON'T MISS THESE TWO GREAT OFF OFF BROADWAY PLAYS

[Anne Bonfiglio]

Please see below descriptions of two plays (one drama and one musical)
that, in my opinion, are good enough for Broadway......they are
terrific. They are playing Robert Moss Theatre, 440 Lafayette
Street,Third Floor,New York, NY and tix are around $15 on
www.smarttix.com. ENJOY

Regards,
Anne Bonfigliio,  Exec dir/PSA
www.psapartnership.org

First play is called      SHADOWLANDS
Tuesday, October 02, 2012 through Saturday, October 20, 2012

Tony Award-winning play about “Narnia” author C.S. Lewis

Venue: ( 440 Studios)
440 Studios Producer: ( Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc.)
Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc. City: New York

Additional Notes:
A true life story about C.S. Lewis, author of “The Narnia Chronicles.”
In midlife his stable 1950s Oxford world is rocked by his romance and
eventual marriage to a younger woman, a Jewish American divorcee and
former communist, who has a young son. After a joyous period of
remission, she succumbs . . .
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2nd play is
THAT LADY FROM MAXIM'S
A boisterous musical farce set in 19th century Paris

 What to say about a dramatist whose oeuvre includes a play called
Please Don’t Walk Around in the Nude? Georges Feydeau was the Neil
Simon of his day (he died in 1918), prolific and successful and for
the most part dismissed by critics. His reputation outside France for
most of the 20th century survived in the occasional footnote to
masterpieces like Pelleas and Melisande and Cyrano de Bergerac. But
critical opinion started to shift in the last decades of the previous
century, and now some see him as a precursor of the Theatre of the
Absurd. And there is something existential in his plots, giant
impersonal constructions from which innocent characters struggle to
extricate themselves, not quite understanding what has happened. That
is certainly the case with poor Doctor Petypon in That Lady from
Maxim’s. As a lyric from the finale puts it:

You wake up with a throbbing head
And find a woman in your bed.
Go back to sleep -- this can’t be real --
You must be dreaming.

That Lady from Maxim’s is a story that could only take place at the
fin de siècle, turn-of-the-century France, 1899 to be exact, the Belle
Epoque, age of art nouveau and delicious décadence. The epicenter is
Maxim’s, the chicest restaurant in Paris, where the women gather in
waves and billows gracing the bars and divans. All of them elegant,
some of them respectable, many of them . . . available.

Show Type: Musical