Falling For Falco

摘要

The broadway revival of "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune" has received such warm reviews and sold so many tickets that no one could plausibly argue that the production is cursed. Still, there has been weirdness. On the afternoon that this reporter saw the play, there was such a loud and exuberant Dominican Day parade outside the theater that it was impossible to concentrate for 20 minutes―despite the fact that Frankie and Johnny were coupling in the nude. "You were there on Sunday?" says the woman who plays Frankie, currently on a break from being the woman who plays Carmela. She groans comically. "I was screaming! And we ended up skipping huge chunks of the play. Just by accident. Horrible, horrible." It turns out that there was also a night when an audience member had a seizure, and a night when it rained in Frankie's apartment. "There was a downpour in the middle of the stage. There was a leak in the theater and they just never had it fixed. Not only was it raining, it was splattering all over me. Stan"―that would be Stanley Tucci―"finally said, 'You should talk to your landlord about this leak.' Everyone cracked up." Rain in the theater. The actress laughs fondly. "This is f―in' Broadway?"