ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS  at the Music Box Theatre

(Seen April 20, 2012)


If slapstick and low humor are your wont, go see this show!  In fact, even if farce and physical comedy are not your thing --- I am among those --- you'll probably enjoy yourself despite that.

This is mostly due to James Corden's performance as a hapless fellow who manages to get two jobs at the same time, working for different bosses.  Richard Bean has written a farce loosely based on Goldoni's 1746 classic, THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS.

With a fine cast to assist Corden, director Nicholas Hytner and "physical comedy director" Cal McCrystal, draw the large ensemble  through a series of physical and comedic foibles.  Corden often breaks the 'fourth wall' to involve audience members in a number of scenes.  And it actually works out well.

It is funny, sometimes crude, often witty, and almost always entertaining.