Word: shubertism
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Same Time, Next Year-Shubert...
Same Time, Next Year-Shubert at 8 Larry Adler-Loeb...
First of all, I like it better at the Broadway theater. For real. The Nederlander Theater is not exactly a pristine theater. It's not the Shubert. And in one sense, it does recreate the theater downtown. It's very, very similar. I think it plays better in an 11 or 12 hundred-seat theater than a 200-seat theater. And if it didn't, I would tell you. There's no question we were concerned, when we were moving the play, that first of all we were moving it out of the area that it was born...
...plot is a gimmick in two brisk acts. In the first we meet six characters in search of a murder: Tony, a flamboyantly gay barber; Barbara, a tough-doll beautician; Eddie, a shady dealer in antiques; the patrician Mrs. Shubert; and two other salon customers who are soon revealed as detectives. They're staking out the building's upstairs tenant, Isabel Czerny, a reclusive concert pianist. Sure enough, the unseen Isabel is murdered. O.K.-whodunit...
...hour to feel really observant as you confront the characters with their deeds. The production takes care of every detail to ensure your satisfaction and allay any doubts: at one point, a member of the audience is summoned to the stage to place a phone call to verify Mrs. Shubert's alibi. After running for ten years, no accusation is new, and an answer to every possible question has been carefully prepared...