Bill reassures her that he’ll back her up and she won’t get in trouble. Dawn is shaken up from an encounter earlier in the day, when she stopped a menacing man engaged in a street fight by hitting him with her nightstick. Or-I mean, I don’t particularly like kids, but you know what I mean.”Įvans is Bill, an experienced police officer, who brings his new partner Dawn (Bel Powley), on the job just three months, to the apartment building, and has her wait in the lobby while he visits a friend on the 22nd floor. WILLIAM Go ahead and laugh,Jeff.The joker laughs last. JEFF: Oh, sure, that joker.Everyone’s terrified of him. Like the laughing figure of Fate, or whatever you want to call it. WILLIAM I just mean-Like,you know,like the generic JEFF What the fuck are you talking about? JEFF What do you mean, like the Joker from Batman? He is grateful to his boss, William (Brian Tyree Henry), who is strait-laced and demanding but believes Jeff “has potential.” Still, William wishes Jeff wouldn’t turn everything into a joke. He has had some bad luck in life – which seems indistinguishable from bad choices (“it was bad luck that I got caught.”) But he feels that he is now getting his life back together, thanks to this job, which he’s had for nine months. Brian Tyree Henry, Bel Powley, Michael Cera, Chris EvansĬera portrays Jeff, a sarcastic, slacker night security guard who was thrown out of the Navy for smoking pot, much to the disgust of his Navy veteran father. Still, if with its choice of “Lobby Hero,” Second Stage does not yet offer any kind of breakthrough for diverse voices on Broadway, director Trip Cullman delivers an effective production of a play that winds up offering some food for thought. That usually doesn’t mean the playwright too. It follows the recent formula for mounting a straight play on Broadway: Get screen stars. That “Lobby Hero” also co star Chris Evans (“Captain America”), in his Broadway debut, and Michael Cera (“Juno,” “Arrested Development”) make the Hollywood connections feel more than an accident. For the inaugural production at the newly renovated Hayes, however, Second Stage has chosen to revive “Lobby Hero,” an old American play (which debuted at Playwrights Horizons in 2001), by Kenneth Lonergan, a playwright (“This Is Our Youth”) whose greatest successes have been in Hollywood: He wrote and directed the Oscar-winning “Manchester by the Sea.” When Second Stage announced it had bought itself a Broadway home, the Helen Hayes, the non-profit theater company declared it would use it to present new American plays by living American playwrights.
It is less, though, than what we were promised.
“Lobby Hero,” which presents a quartet of characters (two security guards and two cops) in the lobby of a high rise apartment building in Manhattan, is more than just the modest comedy it initially seems to be. Chris Evans and Michael Cera in Lobby Hero, at the Helen Hayes
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