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(My companion spotted Bobby Flay, a current much in the news chef mentioned by the fictional Jean-Claude, taking a seat near us).ĭerek McLane has transformed the Lyceum space into an appropriately dreary place framed with the building's plumbing and a ceiling full of chairs Sam's callers hope to fill. Certainly, the snobbish foodie culture with its celebrity chefs is still with us. Sure it's still amusing and fun to see Ferguson segue from character to character. The problem is that though the venue is not overwhelmingly big and Ferguson brings enormous charm and energy to this demanding role, Fully Committed hasn't aged all that well. Consequently this revival is as close to intimacy as you can get on the Great White Way. While the Lyceum is a Broadway house it's not one of its behemoths. His successful career notwithstanding, it's understandable why he welcomed this gig since it's the first time he's actually the main player on Broadway.

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I can't think of a more engaging and up to the challenge of taking on Sam plus the multiple characters keeping the phones in that basement room buzzing, than Ferguson. And to get a star to take on this challenging role, means presenting it on rather than off-Broadway. To bring Mode's modish foodie romp back to New York after years as a regional and abroad staple calls for a star rather than an unknown.

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But Ferguson went on to play the delightful Leaf Coneybear in the award-winning 25th Putnam County Spelling Bea, to take on various Shakespeare clowns in Shakespeare in the Park productions and tp become a TV sitcom star as Mitchell Pritchett in the Emmy-awarded Modern Family.

Had he been cast, he would have been as much a still struggling actor as Setlock and those who followed him. Had the 21-year-old Jesse Tyler Ferguson not gotten cast as one of the sailors in a Broadway revival of On the Town, he might well have auditioned to play Sam when Mark Setlock left Fully Committed premiered at the Vineyard.

The hit and star making potential of such shows has in recent years been exemplified by Buyer and Cellar which also has a struggling actor working in a basement (albeit a far less grungy one than Sam's office). While Becky Mode didn't invent the solo show, no doubt the success of her satirical romp ratcheted up the popularity and durability of that genre's sub-genre: the solo in which the actor on stage plays multiple characters. The show s success also gave star turns for other then still unknown actors, Christopher Fitzggerald and Roger Bart, at its extended run at the Cherry Lane Theater - as well as many others in the countless productions throughout the country and abroad.

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The intimacy of that theater and seeing a genuinely unknown actor deal with the hellish demands of the job he needs, the disappointments of the acting jobs he's not getting, as well as conecting with his loving but lonely dad, made for an authentic theatrical experience.Īs Fully Committed's Sam leaves that stressful basement on a happy note, so Setlock's gig helped to free him from part-time restaurant jobs. Mark Setlock not only helped create the characters who make Sam's life miserable for some ninety minutes, but actually played Sam. When I first saw Becky Mode's modern day upstairs-downstairs comedy, at the Vineyard Theater in 1999, Fully Committed managed to keep me fully engaged. Winslow is just one of the wannabe diners at the chichi Manhattan restaurant, who Sam, the reservation clerk must put off with "Sorry but we're fully committed." Not being part of the rich and famous who are the restaurant's chief clientele, she tries to cajole him with "We are two teeny tiny people." Callers with more celebrity pedigree tend to be overbearing and downright nasty. Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Photo Credit: Joan Marcus)