The night 21-year-old me saw the show, it was the late Roger Moore (who apparently suffered a heart attack on stage that night, and I didn’t know it). Itself an homage to shows put on by earlier comic duo Morecambe and Wise, “The Play What I Wrote” was a meta-theatrical exercise about its’ stars putting on their own absurd play, noteably their quest and their unlikely success in landing a major star for a featured role in a play-within-a-play. It was called “The Play What I Wrote,” written and performed on Broadway by very-British comic duo Hamish McColl and Sean Foley, aka The Right Size. ![]() Geeglund’s words) that I saw when I was still college-aged. Geeglund and his long-time roommate/best frenemy Gil Faizon, another dirty old man and the alter ego of actor Nick Kroll from “The League.” Mulaney and Kroll debuted these two elderly, down-on-their-luck Manhattenite characters on “Kroll Show,” but their early sketches and off-the-cuff interviews they did in these roles are put to shame by this limited-run Broadway production, where the two crack comedians put the full weight of their talent behind these two unsavory characters.įor me, the theater-geek connection went deep, as I was reminded of another “limited-run vanity project” (St. ![]() Geeglund, stand-up comedian John Mulaney describes the audience, to their faces, as a collection of “comedy nerds, theatre dorks, and children whose parents have made a severe miscalculation!” Inhabiting the role of foul-mouthed senior citizen George St. In addition to finding it hysterical, it has me digging deep into my theater-geek past. ![]() I have been repeatedly watching “Oh, Hello! On Broadway” … on Netflix.
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