Overview
- Roundabout’s production starts previews at the Todd Haimes Theatre, with the first performance Friday, an April 19 opening, and a limited run through June 7.
- Rose Byrne plays Jane Banbury and Kelli O’Hara plays Julia Sterroll, while Mark Consuelos makes his Broadway debut as Maurice Duclos alongside Tracee Chimo, Christopher Fitzgerald, and Aasif Mandvi.
- Scott Ellis directs a team featuring David Rockwell on sets, Jeff Mahshie on costumes, Kenneth Posner on lighting, and John Gromada on sound, with Playbill noting added roles such as hair and wig designers and a music consultant.
- The 1925 comedy follows two wealthy wives who drink as they await a shared former lover, a premise that drew calls for censorship in London and a campaign by the Public Morality Council after its premiere.
- Coverage frames this limited engagement as a star-led revival that leans on Byrne and O’Hara’s draw and Consuelos’s debut, a strategy often decisive for this title’s reception across past revivals.