Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick Mulling Filmed Performance of New ‘Plaza Suite’ Broadway Revival
variety.comMichael Appler On Monday evening in New York City, “Plaza Suite,” a Neil Simon comedy starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, opened on Broadway with a comedic crash nearly three years in the making.Set in the late-1960s, “Plaza Suite” comprises three one act plays in which Broderick and Parker — married in real life — portray couples staying in a suite at the Plaza Hotel.
In the final act — a grand farce in which the pair play parents whose bride-to-be daughter has barricaded herself in the bathroom — Broderick takes a slapstick run at the locked-shut door.
On Monday, in front of a star-studded crowd including Mayor Eric Adams, Broderick busted right through the set in an opening night gaff for the Broadway books. “That likely won’t happen again,” Parker laughed the next morning in an interview with Variety.Directed by Parker and Broderick’s close friend, John Benjamin Hickey, “Plaza Suite” was intended to open on Broadway in spring 2020, but was cut short by the pandemic’s closure of live theater.
Back then, Parker and Broderick had mulled the play for some time, having read the comedy together at an Upper West Side arts center for an intimate evening assembled by Hickey.“We were not looking to work together.
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