One Man, Two Guvnors
Although I've still been seeing theater lately, it's been a while since I posted an entry about it. I just saw something at a hilarious performance of One Man, Two Guvnors which seems worth writing down though.
The play is a very funny, very British farce starting James Corden, whom the nerdy Americans among my readers might be most likely to recognize from Doctor Who (guest staring in a couple of episodes in Seasons 5 and 6). James Corden repeatedly breaks the fourth wall and interacts with the audience during the show. At the end, it's obvious that at least one interaction with the audience is staged. Nonetheless, there was one hilarious sequence when I saw it last night which seemed, from the reaction of a nearby usher, to be completely unplanned. At one point, James Corden, whose character's main motivation in the first act is that he's very hungry, asked for a sandwich. He turned to the audience and said "Really? There must be over a thousand people here, and no one has a sandwich?". Someone in the audience actually raised his hand, holding a sandwich in a bag. "What kind of sandwich is it?" "It's a hummus sandwich." "...... Really? You're really offering it to mean? You do know the meaning of a rhetorical question? I mean, you do realize you're in a theater?" Everyone was speechless for several minutes, not quite sure how to proceed. "I'm sorry sir," James Corden called down from the stage, "but you really have messed with the play."
Anyway, sandwich or not, it's an excellent play and you should go see it.
The play is a very funny, very British farce starting James Corden, whom the nerdy Americans among my readers might be most likely to recognize from Doctor Who (guest staring in a couple of episodes in Seasons 5 and 6). James Corden repeatedly breaks the fourth wall and interacts with the audience during the show. At the end, it's obvious that at least one interaction with the audience is staged. Nonetheless, there was one hilarious sequence when I saw it last night which seemed, from the reaction of a nearby usher, to be completely unplanned. At one point, James Corden, whose character's main motivation in the first act is that he's very hungry, asked for a sandwich. He turned to the audience and said "Really? There must be over a thousand people here, and no one has a sandwich?". Someone in the audience actually raised his hand, holding a sandwich in a bag. "What kind of sandwich is it?" "It's a hummus sandwich." "...... Really? You're really offering it to mean? You do know the meaning of a rhetorical question? I mean, you do realize you're in a theater?" Everyone was speechless for several minutes, not quite sure how to proceed. "I'm sorry sir," James Corden called down from the stage, "but you really have messed with the play."
Anyway, sandwich or not, it's an excellent play and you should go see it.