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What it’s like playing Cary Grant, on acid

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Talk about pressure! Tony Yazbeck’s feeling it. It’s not easy playing Cary Grant, the man he calls “the greatest movie star of all time.” Especially when Grant’s tap-dancing while tripping on LSD.

That’s what you’ll see in “Flying Over Sunset.” Inspired by the real-life, acid-dropping journeys of Grant, Aldous Huxley and Clare Boothe Luce in the 1950s, James Lapine fashioned a musical fantasy, now in previews at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, where it opens April 16.

Those hoping for a Grant look-alike won’t find one in Yazbeck, Lapine warns. “We weren’t going to put a dimple in his chin,” the playwright-director says. “But I think people are going to be blown away by Tony because he’s got it all.

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