Good to Be Alive Again, but What’s This Body? ‘Under My Skin,’ a Comedy at the Little Shubert Theater
Laura Collins-HughesMay 14, 2014: When an underinsured office temp from Staten Island and her entitled billionaire boss die in an elevator accident in Under My Skin, the new body-swapping comedy at the Little Shubert Theater, an angel from Eternal Affairs restores them to life, each in the other’s physique. Do not be alarmed if this scenario brings on flashbacks from your cinematic past, circa the Reagan administration: Lily Tomlin and Steve Martin in “All of Me,” Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd in “Trading Places,” Melanie Griffith in “Working Girl,” Tom Hanks in “Big.” There’s a reason those movies succeeded as entertainment. Under My Skin — written by Robert Sternin and Prudence Fraser, television veterans whose credits include the sitcoms “Who’s the Boss?” and “The Nanny” — is a comfortable diversion. Directed by Kirsten Sanderson, it treads familiar ground: income inequality and the gender divide, played for laughs and a lesson in empathy.
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