Review: Matthew Broderick and SJP team up on Broadway
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The setting of Neil Simon's “Plaza Suite” is under threat right at the beginning of the play, when we are told the famous hotel is facing the wrecking ball: “Today it has to be new
NEW YORK -- The very setting of Neil Simon’s “Plaza Suite” is under threat, right from the opening scene.
The mighty Plaza Hotel — an elegant castle overlooking Central Park — has a date with the wrecking ball. “Today it has to be new. Old is no good any more,” we are told.
That might be fitting for Simon’s comedy-drama from 1968 as well. A revival that opened Monday at the Hudson Theatre showed its age, with more than a few threadbare parts.
Even the starry union of Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker — giving the trio of tales an extra bit of electricity since they are, in fact, married — couldn’t conceal its infirmities.