Staten Island's lively theatre
season is enough to keep any entertainment enthusaist satisfied. But, just a half hour's drive away in Hoboken, New Jersey, is a rather unlikely venue for on-stage
productions: the Clam Broth House, where a menu of live musical performances and theatre is served right along with the steak and seafood entrees.
The latest theatrical presentation is a revival of It Had To Be You, a comedy by the popular husband and wife writing team of Renée Taylor and Joseph Bologna.
A two-character piece about mismatched lovers alternately hating and adoring each other following their first bedroom tryst, the play is a simply
constructed appreciation of the lovers' quarrel and is simply hilarious.
The play stars Thom Politico as the besieged divorcé, and Bonnie Comley as the vertiginously dizzy blond who's
intention winning him. |
By the sheer zany power of
Comley's performance, she forces both Politico's character and the audience to fall head over heels in love with her.
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Bonnie Comley |
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Politico is a master at the flabbergasted expression and expertly plays straight man to
Comley's dazzling array of one-liners, physical comedy and irrestible seductiveness.
This production of It Had To Be You will hopefully
inspire a whole retrospective of the fine work of Taylor and Bologna, at the Clam Broth House or elsewhere. |
