Boeing-Boeing

Everyone else in the cast is terrific, but it is Ms. Baranski and Mr. Rylance who put the cherries on the sundae, aided and abetted by Mr. Warchus, who has staged "Boeing-Boeing" with the split-second exactitude of a traffic cop at rush hour.

Air Farce One: A Trans-Atlantic Flight 2008

"Boeing-Boeing" is a seven-door farce set in the Paris bachelor pad of Bernard (Bradley Whitford), a businessman with three fiancées, all of them stewardesses.

Air Farce One: A Trans-Atlantic Flight 2008

I haven't gotten around to mentioning Christine Baranski, who plays Berthe, Bernard's contemptuously haughty French maid, a frigid bourgeoise who stalks through "Boeing-Boeing" with annihilating disdain.

Air Farce One: A Trans-Atlantic Flight 2008

Now the drought is over: "Boeing-Boeing," which was a hit in London last year, has crossed the Atlantic in time for this year's Tony nominations, of which it will surely receive a hatful.

Air Farce One: A Trans-Atlantic Flight 2008

In fact, "Boeing-Boeing" is a considerable departure for Mr. Rylance, age 48, who made his bones in the classics.

This Tony-Nominated Actor 2008

I'd never have thought to revive it, which just goes to show you why I'm a critic, not a producer: "Boeing-Boeing" is the funniest play to hit Broadway in ages, and if it doesn't run for at least a year, there's something seriously wrong with the world.

Air Farce One: A Trans-Atlantic Flight 2008

"Boeing-Boeing," which ran for 19 years in Paris (take that, Molière), "has a lovely classical resolution," he continued.

This Tony-Nominated Actor 2008

Humor soars in arts center's production of 'Boeing-Boeing'

Island Packet: Home 2010

Humor soars in arts center's production of 'Boeing-Boeing'

Island Packet: Home 2010

"Boeing-Boeing" won a pair of Tonys, and he made Alan Ayckbourn's 1970s trilogy of suburban infidelity "The Norman Conquests" seem like an overlooked masterpiece.

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