Debra Messing in 'Brithday Candles' (Image: Joan Marcus)
She won our hearts as Grace in Will & Grace, but in Birthday Candles Debra Messing shows more range as Ernestine who moves methodically through her birthdays from 17 to 107 showing the sweep of her life during the course of the play. The scenes of the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production take place during her birthday tradition of baking her own cake. Six actors play 12 characters with aplomb – bringing Ernestine’s extraordinary-yet-ordinary life to the stage. This quiet playing shows the existential meaning in small moments – the loving mom (Susannah Flood) and troubled daughter, the hapless suitor and potential boyfriend (Enrico Colantoni). Some tropes work less well like the too-cute 100-year series of goldfish which stay with Earnestine through all her days. But while it doesn’t always work, Birthday Candles is sweet ode to the everyday worth the trip down memory lane.
Birthday Candles is now playing on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre. Get tickets now!
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