Michael Appler Jesse Williams and Jesse Tyler Ferguson celebrated the Broadway opening for “Take Me Out” on Monday evening in New York at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater.A revival of the 2003 Tony-winning best play, headlined by Williams, Ferguson and Patrick J.
Adams, “Take Me Out” is the third of 19 new shows that will open this month, continuing the march of star-driven offerings in Broadway’s first regular season since its return after the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
Williams, who’s best known for his television role on “Grey’s Anatomy,” makes his Broadway debut with the revival.“I have never done a play before,” he told Variety wryly at the opening night after-party, still buzzing from the rise of a standing ovation. “As a performer, I feel more emotionally evolved than I was a few years back — able and vulnerable and understanding of myself and my feelings.” This was necessary, he said, to play a baseball player with a stunning revelation. “Take Me Out” tells of fictional MLB star Darren Lemming — Grecian in his godly athletic powers — who comes out as gay to his team, disrupting the dynamics of his clubhouse and exposing searing prejudices among his teammates.
His timid, decidedly un-Grecian business manager, Mason, played by Ferguson, becomes an unexpected confidant. Both gay, they grapple with leaving community to find oneself, in Darren’s case, and finding community from loneliness, in Mason’s.It should shock no one that the revival, directed by nine-time Tony nominee Scott Ellis, is yet painfully contemporary.“If you take this play to many places in the United States, it would be shocking,” Ellis told Variety at the party, held at Yard House. “That’s sort of sad, in a way.
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