![]() The unseen omnipotent godhead is, of course, the chef. One is Sam's father back in South Bend, Indiana. ![]() ![]() A few are co-workers, in varying degrees of vaguely sympathetic hue. (The director is, coincidentally, Pitch Perfect's Jason Moore.) Many of these voices, which are on the other side of a phone reservation line, are pitiful desperadoes, angling for a reservation. It is a one-man show and that man, Modern Family's Emmy-nominated Jesse Tyler Ferguson, plays 40 characters with near-pitch perfection. ![]() That's not to say he wouldn't find the play enjoyable. Not to mention "crispy deer lichen atop a slowly deflating scent-filled pillow, dusted with edible dirt" and "smoked cuttlefish risotto in a cloud of dry ice infused with pipe tobacco." It's safe to say Nathan Myhrvold would not appreciate the evening's view of his life's work. On the menu, of course, is foam: lavender foam and codfish foam, to be precise. In this one-man show, Modern Family’ s Jesse Tyler Ferguson plays 40 characters with near-pitch perfection. Fully Committed - the phrase is taken from the pretentious lingo of the New York restaurant world for "booked up" - concerns itself with the harried workday of Sam Callahan, a reservationist at what the script calls "a four-star, multiple-award-winning, ridiculously trendy Manhattan restaurant." In fact, the only more cutting deprecation might be froth.īut froth and foam were on my mind as the curtain opened on Fully Committed, a play by Becky Mode, which opened last night at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre. No more contemptuous epithet has been launched at the project of molecular gastronomy than foam. In this special edition of Eater at the Movies, which usually focuses on food on film, Joshua David Stein goes live - to the theater.įoam. ![]()
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