Inherit The Wind

April 7, 2007 | Filed Under Main, Theater |

“He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind
And the fool shall be the servant to the wise of heart.”

So, I was on Broadway last light - capping my biggest NY theater week in quite a few years. And when i say I was “on” Broadway, I mean I was onstage! I went to see the new production of Inherit The Wind at the Lyceum Theater in the city. The great conceit was that seats for the show are available onstage - as part of the audience in the courtroom. My wife’s cousin Bobby met me nearby at Virgil’s Bar-B-Que (a favorite) to fortify ourselves for the experience. When we arrived, we were lead onto the stage. Our coats and bags were placed in lockers at the back of the stage and then we were escorted to our flat, wooden bleacher seats that basically became the backdrop for the entire production. The Lyceum is actually one of the smaller theaters and fairly intimate so there were maybe only 50 of these seats. It was very cool. No curtains opened or closed. The play happened in fornt of us and around us. Christopher Plummer played Drummond (the Clarence Darrow character) and Brian Dennehy played Brady (the William Jennings Bryan character). As this is based on the Scopes trial (you all know that one,right?), the arguments certainly reverberated (for me at least). And in the hands for those two amazing actors, how could you go wrong?

Lots of fun and I highly recommend the experience.

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