I agree with everything you’ve said. I’ve very much enjoyed three other Harmon plays (Bad Jews, Significant Other and Admissions), but this play is uncharacteristically unfocused and superficial. And except for the performance by that young Jewish gay man — a role that seems to be a variation on characters in the other Harmon plays), the acting is just awful. The actor playing the father rings pathetic rather than charismatic, and Menzel doesn’t have good enough comic timing. And the self felt completely inauthentic to boot.
