Craving for Travel
Opening Night: January 9, 2014
Closing: February 8, 2014
Theater: Peter Jay Sharp
Gary and Joanne, rival travel agents and former spouses, are vying for their industry’s most prestigious honor: the Globel Prize. With their reputations on the line, they’ll tackle any request, no matter how impossible, and any client, no matter how unreasonable. Full of overzealous travelers, overbooked flights, and hoteliers who are just over it, Craving for Travel reminds us why we travel… and everything that can happen when we do.
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January 27, 2014
Considering what a lightweight piece of twaddle it is, Craving for Travel at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, sure gives you a lot to think about. Can a piece so blatantly promotional rightly be called theater? If I laugh at any of it, should I feel guilty? If this play succeeds, can similar works about elevator operators, owners of independent bookstores and other imperiled jobs be far behind?
READ THE REVIEWJanuary 28, 2014
Sophomoric at times and perhaps more suited to the format of a television sitcom, Craving for Travel still offers a lot of fun. A world premiere of a two-person, thirty-character comedy by Greg Edwards and Andy Sandberg, the show is now revving its engines at the Peter J. Sharp Theater on 42nd Street.
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January 26, 2014
Workplace shenanigans make for entertaining theater. Protesting pajama-gamers; ladder-climbing window washers; even a group of ladies working the monotonous 9-to-5 grind keep us riveted. True, all of these folks had a score of catchy tunes to keep their audiences happy — one amenity that Craving for Travel does not pack in its bottomless suitcase of zany characters and thick accents. But not even the great Frank Loesser could turn this trite two-hander into a compelling comic profile of the travel industry.
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January 24, 2014
You’ve heard of advertorials; meet the advertheatrical. You see, Greg Edwards and Andy Sandberg were commissioned to write this two-hander about the luxury-travel industry by…a luxury-travel agent. Very game actors Michele Ragusa and Thom Sesma play a pair of amicably divorced travel agents, and also the dozens of clients, hotel clerks and fellow industry types they talk to on the phone.
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January 27, 2014
A leading luxury travel consultant named Jim Strong has put together and produced a 75 minute sparkling commercial about his field of expertise. It’s called Craving For Travel, which happens to be the name of the app he’s invented for the iPhone and iPad. It’s not a play, it’s an out and out entertainment, and would make ideal audition material for two bright comic actors named Michele Ragusa and Thom Sesma*, who should be signed up immediately for “Saturday Night Live”.
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