Tom Hanks is quite the headliner in 'Lucky Guy'
April 02, 2013 - USA Today
NEW YORK — Leave it to Nora Ephron to write a play involving police brutality, cancer and one of the world's most famously cynical professions — and make it a romantic comedy. The hero of her swan song, Lucky Guy (* * * ½ out of four), which opened Monday at...
Read moreReview: Tom Hanks shines in Norah Ephron’s ‘Lucky Guy,’ but play is messy and overstuffed
April 02, 2013 - The Washington Post
NEW YORK — Nora Ephron’s last play is about the world of New York tabloids, and it’s a lot like the messy subject she looks at — overindulgent, overstuffed and raucous. That’s its charm as well as its undoing. “Lucky Guy,” starring Tom Hanks sporting...
Read moreReview: Nora Ephron's 'Lucky Guy' is great news
April 02, 2013 - LA Times
The late author magnificently conjures the era of tabloid news wars, with a winning ensemble led by Tom Hanks in his Broadway debut. NEW YORK — In the program for "Lucky Guy," the play Nora Ephron raced to complete before her death last year, there's a note by the author...
Read moreTom Hanks revives old-school NY tabloids in Nora Ephron’s ‘Lucky Guy’
April 02, 2013 - New York Post
Nora Ephron’s “Lucky Guy” is a eulogy. A really fun, really entertaining eulogy. You may have heard that Tom Hanks, making his Broadway debut, is the star of the show — and he is, his Everyman-relatable charm coming through as strongly onstage as it does on- screen....
Read moreApril 01, 2013 - Variey
Tom Hanks makes smooth Broadway debut in Nora Ephron's warm ensembler. Tom Hanks is a natural. Although he hasn’t trod the boards in years, the affable movie star takes to the stage like a fish to water in “Lucky Guy,” Nora Ephron’s affectionate...
Read moreTom Hanks is comfortably uncomfortable in 'Lucky Guy'
March 29, 2013 - NY Daily News
Tom Hanks battles butterflies. Before performances of “Lucky Guy,” the Broadway drama he’s starring in as departed Daily News Pulitzer Prize winner Mike McAlary, he frets and sweats. Fame brings adoration but also expectations. “Yeah. You can’t do a play...
Read more‘Lucky Guy’ with Tom Hanks strives to capture the look and emotions of Mike McAlary’s time
March 26, 2013 - NY Daily News
“Lucky Guy,” the Broadway play starring Tom Hanks as ace Daily News columnist Mike McAlary, is a stickler for detail. The star adopts late reporter's style, down to the mustache, and talks with his colleagues to prepare for role.w The show re-creates the day when McAlary...
Read moreAt Lucky Guy Rehearsals With Tom Hanks
March 24, 2013 - Vulture
Tom Hanks is practically a Broadway veteran. He lived on West 45th Street in his twenties, and “I’d walk past those theaters all the time,” he says. It just took him three decades to find his way onstage. Next month, Hanks, 56, makes his official debut on the Great White Way in...
Read moreTom Hanks in “Lucky Guy”: A Final Thank You to Nora Ephron
March 21, 2013 - ArtInfo
Tom Hanks has no understudy. That’s stating the obvious. The box office advance for “Lucky Guy,” the play about the fabled columnist Mike McAlary by the late Nora Ephron, stands at almost $10 million and it’s all about him. Last week, the drama took in nearly $1.3 million...
Read moreTom Hanks, With 2 Oscars, Will Make Stunning Transition to Broadway
March 18, 2013 - Showbiz411
Nora Ephron did a lot of things but she didn’t write plays. She did write, with her sister Delia, the omnibus “Love, Loss and What I Wore.” It was spoken, with scripts, by five women who sat on stools and didn’t really have characters or interaction. Nora wrote...
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