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The Play That Goes Wrong, the hilarious Tony Award-winning hit Broadway comedy that’s perfect for the entire family, especially those hard-to-please teens, will make its Aggieland debut in Rudder Auditorium on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 18 and 19, at 7:30pm.
Associated Press explains, “Madcap mania with Monty Python in its blood. It cranks the chaos up to 11!” Tickets are on sale now at the MSC Box Office, which you can call at (979) 845-1234, and online at www.MSCOPAS.org. Special ticket prices are available for students.
Co-written by Mischief Theatre company members Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields, The Play That Goes Wrong is a riotous comedy about the theatre. The play introduces the Cornley University Drama Society who are attempting to put on a 1920s murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong does, as the accident-prone thespians battle on against all odds to get to their final curtain call.
Entertainment Weekly calls The Play That Goes Wrong “Hilarious! Non-stop pandemonium.” The Huffington Post calls it “The funniest play Broadway has ever seen!” And the New York Post says it’s “Broadway’s funniest and longest-running play! Nothing is as fall down funny. GO.”
The Broadway production of The Play That Goes Wrong opened at the Lyceum Theatre on April 2, 2017, and by its closing on Jan. 6, 2019, played 27 previews and 745 performances, making it the second longest-running show in the history of the Lyceum Theatre. Not yet done with New York, The Play That Goes Wrong officially opened off-Broadway on Feb. 20, 2019, at New World Stages – Stage 4, where it continues to delight audiences. The Play That Goes Wrong received a Tony Award® for Best Set Design, Broadway.com’s Audience Choice Award for Best Play, and the Theater Fans Choice Award for Best Play.
Awarded the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, 2014 WhatsOnStage Best New Comedy, and 2015 UK BroadwayWorld Best New Play Awards, The Play That Goes Wrong is now in its fifth year in the West End and playing on six continents. The producers have avoided Antarctica for fear of a frosty reception.
It is a remarkable rags-to-riches story for a play which started its life at a London fringe venue with only four paying members of the public at the first performance and has gone on to play to an audience of more than 2 million people around the world.
Mischief Theatre, led by Artistic Director Henry Lewis and Company Director Jonathan Sayer, was founded in 2008 by a group of graduates of The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and began as an improvised comedy group. Mischief Theatre performs across the UK and internationally with improvised and original scripted work.
