Reservations for Four: Rundown and Review
Ok, the play turned out to actually be quite hilarious. Paul was great. I recognized the other guy and the producer, but don't ask for the life of me from where.
Act 1:
Paul's character Kenny is waiting for his friend Denny to show up at a restaurant for a double date. He calls his friend up to see where he is.
Denny: "I'm here"
Kenny: "Where?"
Denny: "Right over here" he waves.
Kenny: "Where, all I see is some ugly chick waving at me".
Denny: "That's me".
And it goes from there when their dates, Debbie and Deborah enter. Denny pretends to be Kenny's friend Suzie instead of a guy in drag up until a point where Kenny returns to his threat about hurting him if he ruined their date. I didn't really like this first skit all that much. It was funny in some places, but kinda meh.
Act 2:
No Paul in this one. Just the other guy, and one of the girls. They're on a date at a restaurant with a pirate theme, and after the guy goes on a bunch of random tangents involving fries, chili and cheese, among other random things, the girl tries to break up with him. She can't get through to him, she mentions his old girlfriend who drove a pinto with a broken tail pipe who mysteriously disappeared and he never heard from her again.
"Gina" (I think. sorry can't really remember, was laughing too hard ;).)
"is that her?"
"I don't know"
"did she drive a pinto with a broken tail pipe?"
"Yes"
"How many girl's did you date that drove a pinto with a broken tail pipe?"
"Just one"
"Well then it was her!"
She then uses a war analogy about how he can be in the middle of a war with bomb going off all around him and end up untouched, but it's more like he doesn't see the bombs going off or even realize that there's a war going on around him. Then she tries to use french fries talking about one fry liking to be smothered in ketchup and salt and vinegar, and another fry liking to be clean and free of oppressive condiments. LOL. He get's upset that she stole his fry analogy because he had clearly set out that fries were his prop (as he'd earlier demonstrated in the skit). There was some line after this about their children and she says they don't have any and never will and he's like "how do you know? Things like this happen to people all the time, they're called miracles". Then there's some part about them spending Christmas together. His description of Santa was omg ridiculous and hilarious!
-"You're thinking about that time of the year that involves a jolly fat man in a red cape"
-"Cape? What cape? It's a red suit"
-"It's a cape. How else do you think he flys around the world in one night
delivering presents."
-"Uh, he has a sleigh."
-"Sleighs don't fly, silly."
-"That's what the reindeer are for."
Then he says he has to prove how much he loves her. He asks her how much she thinks he loves her, she doesn't know. He says he loves her enough to break his own finger, then he does.
It's so awkward to watch, you want it to end for their sakes, but it's so hilarious that you really don't want it to.
Act 3:
The third act was all 4 actors in a Chinese restaurant for Christmas and Paul is the other guy's sister's boyfriend whom he is supposed to meet and give his opinion on. Well Paul's character seems quite rude and says a few jokes and things that could be taken as racist about the Chinese, Jewish etc., which the other guy calls him on. Paul's character then goes on about how he has a black uncle, a chinese son Ming Yu (OMG everyone was seriously laughing for most of this. Especially at the Mandarin or attempted Mandarin coming out of Paul's mouth), and his grandparents were never the same since the Holocaust. The whole skit, was absolutely freakin' hilarious. Paul and the other actors were terrific.
Act 4: final act
Paul and one of the actresses are playing characters out on a date at some fancy restaurant. They're having a nice time talking and eating dessert, and acting like they're quite smitten with each other. Whenever Paul's character trys to woo her she blurts something out or does something random which we all started laughing at. First thing I think was somehow the dessert ended up in her hair (and all over the floor). So Paul goes over to help wipe her dessert out of her hair and then goes back sits down and offers her his. Then the next thing is she blurts something out and knocks over her glass then grumbles and tries to clean it up.
"What happened?"
"What?"
"What did I say, what happened?"
"I don't know"
"Then what's the matter?"
"What?"
"Ok let's not start this again"
ZOMG so funny. Seriously type does nothing for this skit, it's impossible to write it out as good as it was to see it.
It keeps going on like this for a while and then the woman starts telling him about what men are like and how they treat women and what wooing really is (and some mention of a woman named Mary who's apparently in all the old movies and is the girl being wooed), and it finally ends up with both of them on the table, her shaking him back and forth messing up his nice tidy suit and finishes in an awkward kiss. Paul's character gets up, pauses while she tries to explain about her being hurt before etc. etc. then Paul says he'll call her, and that's the end.
I really loved it. Such a small place, we kinda walked right by then had to walk through a restaurant to the back to pick up our tickets and wait to be let into the room with 3 rows of seats (we sat in the front!). It was fun, and there was lots and lots of laughing! :D
Act 1:
Paul's character Kenny is waiting for his friend Denny to show up at a restaurant for a double date. He calls his friend up to see where he is.
Denny: "I'm here"
Kenny: "Where?"
Denny: "Right over here" he waves.
Kenny: "Where, all I see is some ugly chick waving at me".
Denny: "That's me".
And it goes from there when their dates, Debbie and Deborah enter. Denny pretends to be Kenny's friend Suzie instead of a guy in drag up until a point where Kenny returns to his threat about hurting him if he ruined their date. I didn't really like this first skit all that much. It was funny in some places, but kinda meh.
Act 2:
No Paul in this one. Just the other guy, and one of the girls. They're on a date at a restaurant with a pirate theme, and after the guy goes on a bunch of random tangents involving fries, chili and cheese, among other random things, the girl tries to break up with him. She can't get through to him, she mentions his old girlfriend who drove a pinto with a broken tail pipe who mysteriously disappeared and he never heard from her again.
"Gina" (I think. sorry can't really remember, was laughing too hard ;).)
"is that her?"
"I don't know"
"did she drive a pinto with a broken tail pipe?"
"Yes"
"How many girl's did you date that drove a pinto with a broken tail pipe?"
"Just one"
"Well then it was her!"
She then uses a war analogy about how he can be in the middle of a war with bomb going off all around him and end up untouched, but it's more like he doesn't see the bombs going off or even realize that there's a war going on around him. Then she tries to use french fries talking about one fry liking to be smothered in ketchup and salt and vinegar, and another fry liking to be clean and free of oppressive condiments. LOL. He get's upset that she stole his fry analogy because he had clearly set out that fries were his prop (as he'd earlier demonstrated in the skit). There was some line after this about their children and she says they don't have any and never will and he's like "how do you know? Things like this happen to people all the time, they're called miracles". Then there's some part about them spending Christmas together. His description of Santa was omg ridiculous and hilarious!
-"You're thinking about that time of the year that involves a jolly fat man in a red cape"
-"Cape? What cape? It's a red suit"
-"It's a cape. How else do you think he flys around the world in one night
delivering presents."
-"Uh, he has a sleigh."
-"Sleighs don't fly, silly."
-"That's what the reindeer are for."
Then he says he has to prove how much he loves her. He asks her how much she thinks he loves her, she doesn't know. He says he loves her enough to break his own finger, then he does.
It's so awkward to watch, you want it to end for their sakes, but it's so hilarious that you really don't want it to.
Act 3:
The third act was all 4 actors in a Chinese restaurant for Christmas and Paul is the other guy's sister's boyfriend whom he is supposed to meet and give his opinion on. Well Paul's character seems quite rude and says a few jokes and things that could be taken as racist about the Chinese, Jewish etc., which the other guy calls him on. Paul's character then goes on about how he has a black uncle, a chinese son Ming Yu (OMG everyone was seriously laughing for most of this. Especially at the Mandarin or attempted Mandarin coming out of Paul's mouth), and his grandparents were never the same since the Holocaust. The whole skit, was absolutely freakin' hilarious. Paul and the other actors were terrific.
Act 4: final act
Paul and one of the actresses are playing characters out on a date at some fancy restaurant. They're having a nice time talking and eating dessert, and acting like they're quite smitten with each other. Whenever Paul's character trys to woo her she blurts something out or does something random which we all started laughing at. First thing I think was somehow the dessert ended up in her hair (and all over the floor). So Paul goes over to help wipe her dessert out of her hair and then goes back sits down and offers her his. Then the next thing is she blurts something out and knocks over her glass then grumbles and tries to clean it up.
"What happened?"
"What?"
"What did I say, what happened?"
"I don't know"
"Then what's the matter?"
"What?"
"Ok let's not start this again"
ZOMG so funny. Seriously type does nothing for this skit, it's impossible to write it out as good as it was to see it.
It keeps going on like this for a while and then the woman starts telling him about what men are like and how they treat women and what wooing really is (and some mention of a woman named Mary who's apparently in all the old movies and is the girl being wooed), and it finally ends up with both of them on the table, her shaking him back and forth messing up his nice tidy suit and finishes in an awkward kiss. Paul's character gets up, pauses while she tries to explain about her being hurt before etc. etc. then Paul says he'll call her, and that's the end.
I really loved it. Such a small place, we kinda walked right by then had to walk through a restaurant to the back to pick up our tickets and wait to be let into the room with 3 rows of seats (we sat in the front!). It was fun, and there was lots and lots of laughing! :D