New Blog One: Man And Boy Broadway

Man And Boy Broadway

This set-up might sound promising. But the actual two-hour play is far less exciting, salvaged by the usual thrill of watching both Frank Langella and Zach Grenier in action.
They play a long scene together that should offend current sensibilities, but winds up providing the bulk of what’s entertaining in the play. Grenier plays Mark Herries, the chief executive of American Electric, which has just called off a proposed merger with one of Gregor’s subsidiaries because an American Electric accountant has uncovered Gregor’s financial shenanigans, a fancy phrase for theft. The unscrupulous Gregor has gathered intelligence that Mark is secretly gay (or, as Gregor puts it behind Mark’s back, a “silly pink faced old fairy”). Gregor silkily pretends that he himself is gay as well and that his son Basil is not his son at all, but his lover, and that Gregor is willing to share him. He does this without bothering to tell Basil (who we’ve seen is straight from the first scene, when he is in bed with his girlfriend Carol.)
Gregor almost manages through this manipulation to save his empire.