This site has ceaselessly plugged and recommended Zero Hour, a play by and starring my longtime friend Jim Brochu. I do this not to drum up business for Jim but to make myself look good. You see, I promote the show and then Jim and his friends like me. Then, people go see the show and they write me and say, "Boy, you were right about that one," and that makes me look better. You see? Only selfish motives on my part.
Of course, this only works if the folks who go see the show love it but I wasn't taking any gamble in that regard. I've seen this show, in which Jim portrays the outraged and outrageous Zero Mostel, capturing as much of that great actor as is humanly possible. I know everyone who sees it will thank me. Jim's play has been all over the country to rave reviews and recently, it completed a smash run at an off-Broadway theater that wasn't too far off-Broadway. The notices were so good, Jim himself could have written them. Knowing him, he probably did.
In fact, it did so well in that off-Broadway run that a new one starts tonight. The theater Jim was in had a commitment to another play so this evening, he reopens at the DR2 Theater over on East 15th Street in Manhattan for what they call an "open-ended run." That means he'll be there Zeroing as long as people are buying tickets, which they can do via TeleCharge. More info can be had at this site.
I dunno how long he'll be there…hopefully until I can get away from this end of the country and go back and see it again. If you're already on that end of the country or will be there, I suggest you buy seats and go fill them. Then you can send me a message and tell me how right I was about this one.