{"id":3399,"date":"2015-06-10T04:07:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T04:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/?p=3399"},"modified":"2018-10-11T17:07:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T17:07:17","slug":"studio-theatre-review-lobby-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/2015\/06\/studio-theatre-review-lobby-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio Theatre Review: Lobby Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Charlie Gleberman. Liv Weinstein in Lobby Hero.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lobby Hero a play by Kenneth Lonergan and produced and directed at Fieldston by Babe Howard is a splendid and intimate production allowing this excellent group of actors to shine in a remarkably engaging story.<\/p>\n

Lobby Hero follows the adventures of a lazy, late night security guard named Jeff (played by Greg Pizzuro, IV) working at a highrise Manhattan apartment building, and his uptight, strict boss, Whitney (Sasha Hixson, VI). Jeff is an amusing and underachieving, yet endearing character. Despite Jeff\u2019s somewhat irresponsible nature, Whitney, his hardworking supervisor, has a soft spot for him, and she begins to confide in him.<\/p>\n

The plot intensifies when Dawn (Liv Weinstein, IV) and Bill (Will Conard, VI) make their entrance. Bill and Dawn are police officers, and Jeff has a crush on Dawn. We later learn that Bill, who is married, has been taking advantage of Dawn sexually and their relationship<\/p>\n

explodes after Dawn learns that Bill is seeing a resident in the building.<\/p>\n

Whitney, who is African American, learns that his brother has been arrested for killing a nurse. Whitney provides an alibi for his brother, but later confides to Jeff that she lied to the police. Jeff inadvertently shares this with Dawn, who notifies the police department. The play ends with Dawn and Jeff alone in the lobby, with Jeff making a gesture to comfort Dawn. Overall, the play touches on a number of current and important issues, including police brutality, sexism and harassment in the police department. Other important issues that this play tackles is poor legal representation of criminal defendants, and racially motivated actions and perceptions of criminals. The play helps us connect to our classes and various schoolwide discussions concerning these issues.<\/p>\n

Babe Howard, (VI), the director of \u201c Lobby Hero,\u201d said that he chose this play because \u201c Lobby Hero is remarkable for the way it engages with topics [that] a lot of popular art was shying away from during the early 2000s. It discusses race in a way that advances the plot<\/p>\n

without derailing it, while also making us think outside the context of the story itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

The production seemed flawless, which may be surprising given the short amount of preparation time: \u201cwe were crazy rushed, and it took up a lot of time. Actors were running lines during lunch with the directors, and I was running around with props. It\u2019s been a very busy month and a half, but also a very rewarding one,\u201d noted Stage Manger, Ella Murray (V).<\/p>\n

All of these efforts contributed to an entertaining, surprisingly<\/p>\n

humorous, and thought provoking Fieldston production of \u201c Lobby Hero.\u201d Babe Howard\u2019s vision for this production was clearly evident throughout. It was entertaining, surprisingly humorous, and thought provoking. The acting was natural and the crew did a fantastic job of setting the scenes. I thoroughly<\/p>\n

enjoyed this play, and it was<\/p>\n

definitely one of the best student productions that I have seen. Babe<\/p>\n

Howard\u2019s direction gave the strong group of actors the freedom to shine: \u201c Babe created the warmest, most welcoming environment, and I am so thoroughly proud of what we created,\u201d shared Sasha Hixson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lobby Hero a play by Kenneth Lonergan and produced and directed at Fieldston by Babe Howard is a splendid and intimate production allowing this excellent group of actors to shine in a remarkably engaging story. Lobby Hero follows the adventures of a lazy, late night security guard named Jeff (played by Greg Pizzuro, IV) working at a highrise Manhattan apartment building, and his uptight, strict boss, Whitney (Sasha Hixson, VI). Jeff is an amusing and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":3400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-3399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Lobby-Hero-Cover.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3403,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions\/3403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3399"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}