Wohl’s gift for sharp dialogue is also on ample display, especially in the barbed exchanges between the two adult sisters. That’s not to say the play is without moving interludes. The staging by Michael Greif ( Dear Evan Hansen, Rent) feels over-emphatic at times, as if he didn’t fully trust the audience to make the necessary thematic connections. The playwright also tends to use running gags that don’t pay off, such as the adults constantly being interrupted by unseen people looking for the bathroom. There are also too many moments that fail to ring true, including those over-explanatory phone messages and an incident in which the children are terrified by the sound of pounding on the front door that turns out to be a red herring. The play’s first section feels attenuated and proves tedious despite the sterling work by the game-for-anything child performers, while the second half falls victim to narrative gimmickry. Unfortunately, Wohl’s stylistic experiment is more interesting in theory than execution. Princess Diana Musical to Make Broadway Debut in Spring 2020 (You could spend hours just looking at David Zinn’s wonderfully detailed, period-specific set.) Their parents’ marriage is obviously not a happy one, as evidenced by the children’s re-enactments of loud arguments and an answering machine message left by their father in which he accidentally provides evidence of his infidelity. Mom, however, is nowhere to be found, and the children have apparently been left to fend for themselves while their father is away on a “business trip.” They’re holed up in a spacious attic, outfitted with enough toys to keep them entertained for a long time. Seven-year-old Addie (Casey Hilton) plays with her doll, while 10-year-old Kate (Maren Heary) desperately cries out, “Mom? Mom?” The oldest, 12-year-old Chris (Ryan Foust), is an expert in the latter, even making his 5-year-old brother Carl (Harrison Fox) pretend to be a dog. In the first part of the intermissionless drama, we watch as the children do what children tend to do - namely play games, pretend to be ghosts with the help of white sheets and occasionally heap abuse on each other.
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