But tonight is different: Gil and George have finally made it to Broadway in a new semiautobiographical play about two cable-access hosts who sell their show, Too Much Tuna, to NY1 in order to afford the $2,500 rent on their recently decontrolled apartment. They met as undergraduates at Columbia University and have since shared their boundless enthusiasm for Steely Dan, a mountain of cocaine, and a penchant for principled career failure.
Audiences will laugh uproariously at their clownish behavior, even as some viewers will presciently recognize that this is where they're headed in a few decades - a few may already be there.Īctor Gil (Nick Kroll) and novelist George (John Mulaney) are septuagenarian roomies living in a rent-controlled five-bedroom apartment on 73rd Street and Columbus (for $75 a month). Geegland and Gil Faizon the Vladimir and Estragon of the 21st century? Certainly the Upper West Side alter cockers of Oh, Hello on Broadway share a lot in common with the tramps in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: their slovenly dress, their codependence, and their inexplicable ability to hold an audience rapt for the length of a show in which nothing really happens. Nick Kroll and John Mulaney star in Oh, Hello on Broadway, directed by Alex Timbers, at the Lyceum Theatre.Īre George St.
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