The Play That Goes Wrong

First Preview: Apr 24, 2018

Opening Date: Apr 24, 2018

Closing Date: Jan 06, 2019

Running Time: 02:00

https://www.broadwaygoeswrong.com/

Playing @

New World Stages

340 West 50th Street New York City, NY 10019

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WRONG MOVES RIGHT UP THE STREET!

The time is right to see The Play That Goes Wrong, Broadway’s funniest and longest-running play! This Olivier Award-winning comedy is a hilarious hybrid of Monty Python and Sherlock Holmes.

Welcome to opening night of the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor. This 1920s whodunit has everything you never wanted in a Broadway show – a ramshackle set, a leading lady with a concussion, and a corpse that can’t play dead. It’s a classic mystery… and it’s a mystery how it ever got to Broadway!

Broadway Play - Comedy

Age Guidance: 10

Show Notes: 1 Intermission

Performance Schedule:

SUNDAY, MONDAY, WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY @ 7 PM
FRIDAY & SATURDAY @ 8 PM
SATURDAY & SUNDAY @ 2 PM

Director

Mark Bell

Written by

Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields

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And it is that relentless constancy that sets this endeavor apart from other entries in the twin, mostly clapped-out genres that it so guilelessly taps — the backstage comedy and the mystery farce with the aristocratic characters. Why? Because “The Play That Goes Wrong,” which was written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields and has arrived on Broadway after West End success, goes wrong so many times, in such mellifluous ways, and with such far-gone commitment to physical comedy. The relationship between comedy and pain is much discussed. But while most people will leave “The Play That Goes Wrong” thinking they’ve just spent two hours in a world utterly removed from the cares of the American moment, which would be true, the deeper truth in play here is that they will have watched a show that really is about the theater’s long-standing relationship with blind terror

---Chicago Tribune

“OH MY GOD!!! WHAT HAPPENED??? NO, I'M SERIOUS... LEARN YOUR LINES. THIS SHOW IS TERRIBLE!”

---Will Ferrell

The show must go on — but in the Broadway transfer of West End hit “The Play That Goes Wrong,” forgotten lines, lost props, technical gaffes and rebellious scenery all seem to reply, “Oh no it doesn’t.” This broad, silly and deliciously demented show, about a fictitious amateur theatrical group with great resilience and greater incompetency, is by the Brit trio of Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields in a style that evokes “Fawlty Towers” with nods to Buster Keaton, Carol Burnett and Monty Python. Under the go-for-broke direction of Mark Bell, its high-energy cast is comic gold and manages to sustain, with a never-ending series of diversionary tactics, its one-joke concept.

Accessibility:

Box Office

Street to Lobby (Box Office): no steps, ground floor. Box Office windows are wheelchair accessible

Curb Ramps

None available

Restroom

Men's & Women’s (Orchestra Level-North): multiple stalls & 1 accessible stall, changing table. Men’s & Women’s (Mezzanine Level-South): multiple stalls & 1 accessible stall. Gender Neutral (Orchestra Level-Center): single stall

Directions Subway

C/E to 50th Street, 1 to 50th Street, N/R/Q/W to 49th Street, B/D/F/M to 47-50th Streets-Rockefeller Center

Elevator\Escalator

Everything is accessible with escalators and an elevator but the space itself is large, requiring a bit of walking

Entrance

Complex has a street level entrance, with elevators. The theatres are located underground with three levels: the main floor, the mezzanine level (one floor down), and the orchestra level (another floor down)