At the Nov. 1 opening night performance of Noises Off were Patrick O'Donoghue, "Sopranos" and Side Man star Edie Falco, 1999 Tony Award winner and Broadway diva Bernadette Peters and her friend Michael Casey.
Noises Off, follows a rag-tag British theatre company over several months of the run of a tired sex farce called Nothing On. Frayn gives us a view of both the backstage antics of the troupe and the on-stage performance of farce they are playing. Act One shows the dress rehearsal, full of flubs, lapses and tentative choices that reveal the artists' temperaments. Act Two takes place backstage, a month later, during a performance, when the company begins sabotaging itself due to petty jealousies. Act Three is the final performance of the run of Nothing On, and, seen from the point of view of the audience again, the company destroys itself. Patti LuPone, Peter Gallagher, Richard Easton and Faith Prince star.
