6/4/2023 0 Comments Top dog underdog broadwayPreviously a master at the street hustle Three-card Monte until his friend was shot dead by an irate mark, he provides their only income by working a “legit” but humiliating job in an arcade shooting game, in the role of Abraham Lincoln in whiteface, but is soon to be replaced by a wax dummy. Named Lincoln and Booth as a joke by their father, the elder Linc is temporarily living with his younger brother after being thrown out by his wife. It weaves a devastating tale of two Black brothers, abandoned by their parents as young teenagers, jilted by their wife and girlfriend, and left with only each other to rely on, as they deal with poverty, work, rejection, racism, and all the emotions they engender, in a comi-tragic two-hander that’s laugh-out-loud absurd until it turns deadly. The latest NYC production in a year filled with Pulitzer Prize-winning shows and the first-ever Broadway revival of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog is now playing a limited engagement at the John Golden Theatre, on the 20 th anniversary of its receipt of the prestigious award in 2002.
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