The 39 Steps re-opens at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre on January 21.
This Olivier Award winning comedy is adapted from the Alfred Hitchcock film by Patrick Barlow, based on an original concept by Simon Corble & Nobby Dimon, based on the book by John Buchan. Maria Aitken directs.
The 'unstageable' thriller is staged, with four cast members playing a minimum of 150 roles. The story revolves around an innocent man who learns too much about a dangerous spy ring and is then pursued across Scotland, before returning to London to foil the villain's dastardly plans. The 39 Steps contains every single legendary scene from the award-winning movie - including the chase on the Flying Scotsman, the escape on the Forth Bridge, the first theatrical bi-plane crash ever staged and the sensational death-defying finale in the London Palladium.
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Review: mapcap comedy that will leave you breathless ...bymorsesline
and sore. Locations, costumes, and accents change with ease as four actors embody the cast of an entire Hitchcock film in this comedic tour-de-force. The "39 Steps" is not high art, it is the funniest thing to inhabit the theater district in years. Slapstick, sight-gags, and sheer comic invention drive this vehicle, in which I was glad to be along for the ride.
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