Standing Dominic Fumusa and seated Harold Gould in
TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
Photo Credit - George Shaivone
"Tuesdays With Morrie" (The Fox Theater)

"Tuesdays With Morrie" is a heart-warming play that combines comedy, drama and poignancy and makes the blend perfectly. Written for the stage by Mitch Albion and Jeffrey Hatcher, and based on Albion's best selling book, "Tuesdays With Morrie" is a feast for the mind and the heart. Harold Gould and Dominic Fumusa take the stage and create Morrie's world and they do it with artistry and joy.

The play tells the story of a man named Mitch (Fumusa) who meets a teacher named Morrie (Gould) when he signs up for one of his classes at Brandeis University. Throughout his college career Mitch and Morrie are close. When it comes time for Mitch to leave he promises Morrie he will keep in touch. He doesn't. It is sixteen years before Mitch and Morrie meet again. By this time Mitch is a successful sports writer and Morrie is dying of Lou Gehrig's disease.

Once they renew their friendship Mitch's visits to Morrie become a regular thing. He flies from Detroit to Boston every week and has Tuesdays with Morrie. And during these visits he begins to learn some of the secrets of life - and death.

Gould is wonderful as Morrie. He manages to make him endearing from his first appearance to his last. He is witty and wise with out being overbearing, and that is a basic requirement in a play of this type. Fumusa provides balance to the story with his calm, measured performance as Mitch. The two men's acting styles compliment each other and the audience is swept up in a cavalcade of caring because the two men seem to care so much for each other.

There are only two characters on stage for the entire one act of the play, but they create a world all their own and allow the audience to enter it. Less than two hours in length, the play is perfectly complete. 

If you get the chance to see this production, do! Gould and Fumusa create a perfect blend of the young and the old. They bare their hearts and their souls as they give us this study of life and death. The book was a major success and this play does the book proud.

"Tuesdays With Morrie" plays at the Fox Theater through Sunday February 26. Tickets range from $14 to $36. They can be purchased at www.ticketmaster.com, or by calling (404) 817-8700. They can also be purchased in person at the Fox Theater Box Office.

There is something magical about live theater, and "Tuesdays With Morrie" is live theater at its best. Don't miss it.

 

 

 

 

 

©2006 Jackie K. Cooper

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