The Play's the Thing (adapted from the Hungarian of Ferenc Molnar by P. G. Wodehouse; produced by Gilbert Miller, in association with James Russo and Michael Ellis) first reached Broadwaywhen Molnar was the thingin the mid-'20s. A successful trifle then, it may easily prove a successful trifle now. If it spends most of its time winking at the audience, if without managing to be a play at all it presumes to offer a play within a play, its suavity saves it. It has that light touch which for so long, with Molnar, proved a Midas touch.
The yarn's hero is a Molnaresque...
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