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Right off the bat, its funny that a play about Robert Moses is playing in Hudson Yards.
The setting may as well be the message.
This occasions more than a little awkward speechifying from her about their rival intentions.
He poses in what a self-help book might tell you are power positions: slouched back, arms akimbo.
The lines that reference specific bits of New York history tend to play with a New York audience.
But mostly, this is history skimmed along the surface.
A certain condescension is baked into the scripts construction.
or Now hed taken on a far deadlier enemy the one no one ever beats.
This time he was fighting the middle classes.
All thats missing is an ominous trombone blat.
The Shed itself does much the same work for the foggy steel leviathans of Hudson Yards.
So its disappointing yet fitting for it to have a hit on its hands with something so frictionless.
It requires no variances and fits the grid plan.
You could place it anywhere.
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