No Broadway opening today, thank heavens, but I do have a review for you that I’ll think you find interesting and if we all get lucky this small show may someday make it to the big time
The play is called Ordinary Days and it is playing at a theater or should I say space called The Black Box otherwise known as Roundabout Underground which is located downstairs in the basement of the Laura Pels theater on 46th street.
This 4 character musical featuring Hunter Foster who you’ll know from Little Shop of Horrors and Urinetown, who also happens to be Sutton’s brother, Jared Gertner from The Putnam County Spelling Bee and two gals with terrific voices, runs a quick 75 minutes and the entire show is sung.
The story concerns a front man for an author distributing advertising flyers, a girl trying to see if the big city is right for her and a couple who can’t decide if they want to get married or not. Sounds trite but it worked and when they all end up at the Met you’ll see what I mean. There is no scenery save a movable 3 piece bench, they wear street clothes and ride down in the elevator with you and are accompanied only be a single piano.
So if you’re game and perhaps broke why not skip Bye Bye Birdie, Jude Law, Sienna Miller and even Daniel Craig and go buy a ticket which will set you back $20, join the other crowd totaling 61, and have a neat time.
Ordinary Days after all is not very ordinary at all…Very special..
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