Candle Goes Out in BEHANDING Final Show

In Sunday night's closing performance of A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE, Martin McDonagh's new play starring Christopher Walken, a burning candle - critical to the plot - failed to stay lit, the New York Post reports. In the play, Walken's character covers characters Toby and Marilyn (played by Anthony Mackie and Zoe Kazan, respectively) in gasoline and leaves them in a room with a candle burning in a can of petrol.  However, at Sunday's performance, the flame went out.  The problem was soon fixed by a stagehand, for whom the audience applauded enthusiastically, the Post reports.  The event was widely discussed at the play's closing party, held at the restaurant Gansevort 69. 

A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE, starring Academy Award-winner Christopher Walken, who received Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for his role; Sam Rockwell, Anthony Mackie and Zoe Kazan played on Broadway at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45th Street). The production was directed by John Crowley. The play deals with a man searching for his missing hand (Walken), two con artists out to make a few hundred bucks (Mackie and Kazan), and an overly curious hotel clerk (Rockwell).

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