Born Yesterday Revival 2011

Run Time:
2 hours and 15 minutes, with one intermission

Opened: April 24, 2011
Closing: June 26, 2011

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James Earl Jones Theater (Broadway)

138 West 48th St. New York, NY

Emmy Award nominee Jim Belushi ("According to Jim," "The Defenders"), Tony Award winner Robert Sean Leonard, and Outer Critics Circle nominee Nina Arianda ("A breakout performance—one of the highlights of the year" Charles Isherwood, The New York Times for Venus in Fur) head the cast in Born Yesterday, Garson Kanin’s award-winning comedy about sex and politics. Tony Award winner Doug Hughes (Doubt) directs this timeless and timely story of a not-so-honest businessman and a not-so-dumb blonde out to "capitalize" on everything Washington has to offer.

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Robert Sean Leonard

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Daffy Blonde Gets Wise to Washington

7 / 10

But even the babel of fierce combat between the American theater's definitive dumb blonde, Billie Dawn (Nina Arianda), and her abusive lover Harry Brock (Jim Belushi), cannot obscure the occasional sound of creaking at the Cort Theater, where a solid but inessential revival of Garson Kanin's comedy 'Born Yesterday' opened on Sunday night. The celluloid shadow of the wondrous Judy Holliday, who played Billie in the original 1946 Broadway production and the movie directed by George Cukor, inevitably looms large over any revival of 'Born Yesterday.' (Madeline Kahn starred in the only previous Broadway revival, in 1989.) To her immense credit Ms. Arianda, who made a spectacular Off Broadway debut last season as the actress-seductress in David Ives's 'Venus in Fur,' colors this cartoon role with her own set of Crayolas.

Born Yesterday Born All Over Again

9 / 10

Belushi paints all this with size and spirit, but also with sensitivity, a word you might not expect to find applied to the acting of such a role. Loud, crude, and ugly on the surface, this Harry Brock shows a flickering helplessness underneath. Just menacing enough to be genuinely scary, he never lets the hints of pathos soften him into a Damon Runyon cartoon gangster. Staunchly unlovable, he's also clearly a person who needs love, and we can all identify with that.

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1946	Broadway	Broadway
1989	Broadway	Broadway
2011	Broadway	Broadway Revival Broadway

Born Yesterday - 2011 Broadway Awards and Nominations

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Year	Ceremony	Category	Nominee
2011	Drama Desk Awards	Outstanding Actress in a Play	Nina Arianda
2011	Drama Desk Awards	Outstanding Revival of a Play	0
2011	Outer Critics Circle Awards	Outstanding Actress in a Play	Nina Arianda
2011	Outer Critics Circle Awards	Outstanding Revival of a Play	0
2011	Tony Awards	Best Costume Design of a Play	Catherine Zuber
2011	Tony Awards	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Nina Arianda

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