Theater: Broadhurst Theatre / 235 West 44th Street, New York, NY, 10036
Synopsis:
Nora Ephron's LUCKY GUY marks a return to her journalistic roots in a new play about the scandal- and graffiti-ridden New York of the 1980s, as told through the story of the charismatic and controversial tabloid columnist Mike McAlary (Tom Hanks in his Broadway debut).
From his sensational reporting of New York's major police corruption to the libel suit that nearly ended his career, the play dramatizes the story of McAlary's meteoric rise, fall and rise again, ending with his coverage of the Abner Louima case for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, shortly before his untimely death on Christmas Day, 1998.
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April 1, 2013: If love were really all you need, Nora Ephron’s “Lucky Guy” would be the best show of the season, hands down. This fast-moving ink- and tear-stained portrait of the tabloid columnist Mike McAlary opened Monday night at the Broadhurst Theater, floating on a fathoms-deep reservoir of affection and good will, the likes of which back-stabbing Broadway seldom sees.
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April 1, 2013: Nora Ephron's last play is about the world of New York tabloids, and it's a lot like the messy subject she looks at — overindulgent, overstuffed and raucous. That's its charm as well as its undoing.
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April 1, 2013: Leave it to Nora Ephron to write a play involving police brutality, cancer and one of the world's most famously cynical professions -- and make it a romantic comedy.
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April 2, 2013: A frequent stumbling block in any dense dramatic chronicle is too much tell, not enough show. But the late Nora Ephron circumvents that problem in her entertaining salute to the tabloid newspaper business of the 1980s and ‘90s, Lucky Guy. She smartly enlists a garrulous crew of reporters and editors to serve as the oral-history vessel for her nostalgic look back at old-school, foot-in-the-door journalism.
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April 1, 2013: Nora Ephron’s posthumously produced “Lucky Guy” is a breezy but thin account of the life and career of New York City reporter and columnist Mike McAlary. Film star Tom Hanks, in his Broadway debut and first stage appearance in more than 30 years, displays potent theatrical technique and dispenses the requisite charisma as the bombastic newspaper flack. Audiences primed for seeing Hanks in the flesh probably won’t care about the flimsiness of his vehicle and the reams of rat-a-tat-tat narration that shackle it.
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