I’m Not Rappaport
Opening Night: July 25, 2002
Closing: September 8, 2002
Theater: Booth Theatre
Judd Hirsch and Ben Vereen star in a new production of Herb Gardner’s 1986 Tony Award-winning comedy I’m Not Rappaport. Set in Central Park in the fall of 1982, the show focuses on two octogenarians as they battle retirement. Nat (Hirsch) is a lifelong radical always fighting for justice, while Midge (Vereen) is an apartment superintendent hiding in the park from his tenants, who want him to retire. Tony Award-winner Daniel Sullivan directs.
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June 28, 2011
A CARDINAL rule of a certain kind of sentimental comedy is that you can’t keep a feisty old man down. Punch him, knife him, run him over with a tank or — God forbid — stuff him into a nursing home. He will still spring back to his feet, like Rasputin defying his assassins. Seasoned theatergoers know that each resurrection of said feisty old man must be acknowledged with a congratulatory round of applause.
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