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Judith Ivey has come home!
I just came from a run thru of Bad Dates starring the incomparable Beth Broderick, directed by my old friend Judy Ivey and I am delighted with the results. This charming, accessible work, real and unfussy, is movingly rendered by Beth and piloted by Judy with her trademark honesty and theatrical integrity. It is more than I had hoped for. Written by Theresa Rebeck, Bad Dates vibrates with currency, and follows a single Mom trying her best to pave a safe path for herself and her daughter.
And it makes me laugh the way Judy has always made me laugh, from the gut, fending off fear, full throated, and care free.
There is something reassuring about old friendships. They remind you of your roots, re-calibrate your sense of whom you are by referencing where you were. And the best long term relationships start up where you left them, without airs, or a need to explain the intervening time. Such it is with Judy. She is as comfortable as an old shoe, to borrow a theme from Bad Dates, and as classy as a Chanel Espadrille.
And in turn she's brought an old and trusted friend along as a collaborator in Beth Broderick. Beth took on our designer run through, filled with rehearsal props and total strangers in the room, with nary a sweat broken. She left us laughing and tearing up in equal and effortless measure.
You're going to love Bad Dates.
We're thrilled and honored to have Judy and Beth in the House.
More Anon,
Beej
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