When first coming to New York City, I took notice of a lot of the Off-Broadway internet buzz. Many shows were highlighted on Playbill.com, Broadway.com, etc. — including Altar Boyz, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Musical of Musicals: The Musical!, Newsical, and others. One of the non-musical shows that kept coming up was Will Eno’s Thom Pain (based on nothing)
T Ryder Smith, director of The Real Inspector Hound and fellow TZ alum, will apparently be taking over the one-man show from James Urbaniak this summer. As a result, he’s been doing a series of dress rehearsals, available to an invited audience for free.
So, this morning, a group of us from the Academy (Dominic, Steph, Ambr, Clemen, Cary, and Adam) took the trip to the DR2 theatre on 15th Street to check T out in performance.
The show’s amazing. Besides being exceptionally well-written, T was absolutely fantastic, able to conjure up the nature of every human sexual relationship with a twenty-second gesture — among other things that I’m only assuming every human can connect with (I mean, shit, I’m only 20, and I believe I understood the complicated show in its entirety).
The show’s absolutely amazing, in an intimate environment, and if T does get a chance to take over, I would suggest getting tickets.
In fact, it was so good, I’m considering going back to the DR2 so that I can catch James Urbaniak, just to see how different the two actors are.
Good show, T. Good Show.
For more information on Thom Pain, click here to visit the show’s website.
