I find it amusing that this low-brow, knockabout farce has outlasted all four of this season's high-brow, more acclaimed nominees for Best Play.
And it has no stars. None of its actors are TV sitcom stars or past Tony winners. It boasts no Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights.
Comedies are often overlooked at awards time, so I'm glad that the Oliviers has a special category for them (which this ''Play'' won in 2015).
If the Tonys had a Best Comedy prize, it could've competed with ''Oh, Hello on Broadway'' and Joshua Harmon's ''Significant Other.''
(Lucas Hnath's ''A Doll's House, Part 2'' starts off very funny, but for me, really played itself out as a drama.) |
