Английская Википедия:Good Night, Oscar

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Good Night, Oscar is a comedy-drama play written by Pulitzer Prize-award winning playwright Doug Wright. The story revolves around a fiction event in which pianist and humorist Oscar Levant portrayed by Sean Hayes appears on the The Tonight Show with Jack Paar. The production received critical acclaim with Hayes winning the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.

The play began previews at the Belasco Theatre on April 7, 2023, and premiered on April 24 with a planned closing date of August 27, 2023.

Premise

The show follows a 1958 episode of The Tonight Show, where host Jack Paar has as a guest comedian Oscar Levant.

Production

The show first premiered in 2022 at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, with Sean Hayes as Oscar Levant. The production ran from March 12 until April 24, 2022.

The Broadway production was directed by Lisa Peterson. Rehearsals began on March 13, 2023. The production opened April 24, 2023. It also features set design by Rachel Hauck, costume design by Emilio Sosa, lighting design by Carolina Ortiz Herrera and Ben Stanton, sound design by Andre Pluess, music supervision by Chris Fenwick, and wig, hair, and make-up design by J. Jared Janas. At the 76th Tony Awards, the show received three nominations and Hayes was awarded Best Leading Actor in a Play.

Those who attended opening night included Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Matthew Broderick, Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner, Matt Damon, Bradley Cooper, Michael Douglas, Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Aniston, John Krasinski, Victor Garber, Graham Norton, and Cherry Jones.

Cast

Characters	Goodman Theatre (2022)	Broadway (2023)
Oscar Levant	Sean Hayes
June Levant	Emily Bergl
Alvin Finner	Tramell Tillman	Marchánt Davis
Bob Sarnoff	Peter Grosz
Jack Paar	Ben Rappaport
Max Weinbaum	Ethan Slater	Alex Wyse
George Gershwin	John Zdrojeski

Reception

Critical response

The Chicago production received positive reviews from the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Hyde Park Herald, and WTTW, among others, with Hayes' performance being especially noted. The Broadway production received mostly positive reviews. Christian Lewis of Variety praised Wright's dialogue writing, "In some ways, “Good Night, Oscar” even feels like an episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel — zany, fast-paced and smartly humorous, with references flying a mile a minute, some battle-of-the-sexes content, sumptuous dresses, well-tailored suits and occasional moments of sincere emotion." The New York Daily News, on the other hand, lauded Hayes' "spectacularly intense and unstinting performance". Entertainment Weekly gave the production an A writing, "Aside from a few lulls in the early stages of exposition...the entire play is delightful, buoyed by its leading man's performance."

Some critics were more mixed with Jesse Green of The New York Times called the play an "unconvincing biographical fantasia" and Hayes' performance "less an inhabitation of character than a nonstop loop of perfectly rendered facial tics, trembling hands and compulsive gestures." Johnny Oleksinski of The New York Post gave the play two out of four stars and called it "off-key" and "mostly unsatisfying."

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Nominee	Result	Ref.
2022	Jeff Award	Outstanding Production of a Play	Good Night, Oscar	Шаблон:Won
		Outstanding New Work	Doug Wright	Шаблон:Won
		Director of a Play	Lisa Peterson	Шаблон:Nom
		Performer in a Principal Role in a Play	Sean Hayes	Шаблон:Won
		Performer in a Supporting Role in a Play	Emily Bergyl	Шаблон:Nom
		Scenic Design - Large	Rachel Hauck	Шаблон:Won
		Sound Design - Large	André Pluess	Шаблон:Won
2023	Tony Awards	Best Leading Actor in a Play	Sean Hayes	Шаблон:Won
		Best Costume Design in a Play	Emilio Sosa	Шаблон:Nominated
		Best Scenic Design in a Play	Rachel Hauck	Шаблон:Nominated
	Drama Desk Awards	Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play	Sean Hayes	Шаблон:Won
		Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Play	Emily Bergl	Шаблон:Nom
	Drama League Awards	Outstanding Production of a Play	Good Night, Oscar	Шаблон:Nom
		Distinguished Performance Award	Sean Hayes	Шаблон:Nom
	Outer Critics Circle Award	Outstanding New Broadway Play	Good Night, Oscar	Шаблон:Nom
		Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play	Sean Hayes	Шаблон:Won
		Outstanding Sound Design (Play or Musical)	André Pluess	Шаблон:Nom

Conception dispute

The conception of the origins of the play has been up for debate with playwright David Adjmi, claiming in a Facebook post that he had persuaded Hayes to portray Levant and was commissioned by producer Beth Williams to write a play for the actor. When Adjmi refused to "lighten the material," he said, Williams and Hayes held their option "in bad faith" to prevent him from further developing his play, while hiring Doug Wright to write a new play based on Adjmi's idea. The production team of Good Night, Oscar strongly rebutted Adjmi's claim in a press release which alleged Hayes and Williams had themselves gotten the idea to make Levant the center of a play in 2010, and culled Adjmi from a list of playwrights to write it. Adjmi then published an unverified email exchange on BroadwayWorld.com between himself and Hayes, in which he attempted to convince a reluctant Hayes to portray Levant.

External links

• Official website
• Good Night, Oscar at the IBDB