Review: DruryLaneTheatre stages a masterful, funny revival of the comedic thriller The39Steps. ChicagoTheater CathyTaylorPR
"The 39 Steps" -- ★ ★ ★ ½ As the applause died down opening night of Drury Lane Theatre's merry revival of"The 39 Steps," my seatmate turned to me, beaming.Indeed. To appreciate the unbridled theatricality and inventive stagecraft of Patrick Barlow's adaptation ,"The 39 Steps" must be experienced live.
by signing up you agree to our terms of service But the show poses challenges for designers and performers alike. Four actors play more than 150 characters in the play, which requires speed-of-light transitions and razor-sharp timing. It also requires a director capable of managing comedic mayhem that unfolds mostly uninterrupted. Drury Lane has such a director in Johanna McKenzie Miller, assisted by Charlie Baker, who's responsible for the comedic movement.
Gavin Lee plays lonely Londoner Richard Hannay, who gets caught up in a spy thriller in"The 39 Steps," which is running through Aug. 13 at Drury Lane Theatre. - Courtesy of Brett Beiner Lee -- the lissome, likable Broadway veteran -- plays Richard Hanny, a bored and lonely bachelor who meets a mysterious Hitchcockian blonde at the theater and takes her to his London flat. After revealing she's a spy bound for Scotland on a mission involving national security, she's murdered.
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