Their adult sons (.Elder son Ben (McKenzie), the responsible, lawyerly one, tries reason: “If you wanted to get divorced you should have done it after we went to college, like normal people.” Ben’s well-meaning therapist wife Jess (Ashley Park) suggests role-play and hand-holding as a potential solution.Revelations arrive in due time, none particularly unforeseen or unforeseeable, most being of the parents-like-sex-too variety. Ed is this week’s Bingo champion. “I think I would like a divorce,” says Alexander’s Nancy, capping a nicely choreographed, entirely wordless opening vignette in which she and husband Bill set a dinner table for two with the precision of an expensive timepiece.“All right,” responds the resigned-to-life Bill.

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Clap. Both “.Like them, “Grand Horizons” is perfectly structured, mimicking the classic works of stage comedy with a stupendous Act I curtain, a neat Act II surprise and a final beat that would be haunting if the road leading to it were not so littered with extorted laughs. She’s too serious a playwright to be trying to game the market — though “Grand Horizons,” with its pace, pedigree and cast of seven, is likely to be performed in regional and amateur theaters for years.

Tickets Through March 1 at the Helen Hayes Theater, Manhattan; 212-541-4516, 2st.com. Sheila’s started a new book club. So does the occasional sound of gunshots seeping through the thin walls of the cookie-cutter house in the retirement community that gives the play its sarcastic title. ‘Grand Horizons’ Broadway Review: Jane Alexander & James Cromwell In A Marriage Story With Jokes. Second Stage Theatre celebrates the official opening of Bess Wohl's Grand Horizons on Broadway January 23. Grand Horizons on Broadway New York Theater January 23, ... “All right,” Bill replies. The gags are not as slick as Simon at his best, but they have a dark, cruel depth more appropriate to our own time and our own ineffable anxiety about old age and loneliness.To be sure, the gender divide may be more flexible than in days of yore and the sex jokes may be raunchier. Grand Horizons on Broadway New York Theater January 23, ... “All right,” Bill replies. That noise turns out to be coming from a television next door; it is merely misdirection like “Grand Horizons” as a whole, whose lunge at gravitas is too little, too late.At least in part, that’s because Wohl and.“Grand Horizons” is filled with thin jokes like that, the kind that do not hesitate to sell character reality up the river in exchange for a chuckle. Broadway Review: “Grand Horizons” at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater.