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Best-known for the comedy Fuddy Meers, Lindsay-Abaire has a flair for creating quirky but believable characters and enmeshing them in kooky, unbelievable, entertaining plots. This play is the picaresque story of unhappy Cass, who, attempting to leave behind her deadly dull life and husband, flees to Niagara Falls. There she becomes entangled with various neurotics--a heartbroken tour-boat captain, a half-hearted would-be suicide, a pair of incompetent but heartless private eyes--all of whom, before the play is over, discover they are connected in a weird lattice of coincidence; for example, the tour-boat captain's first wife may have been accidentally killed years before by the would-be suicide. Characters and story by themselves would sustain an audience, but Lindsay-Abaire ices the cake with his comic dialogue. Like all truly witty comedy writers, he is a poet in disguise, capable of writing precise, graceful, and economical lines that come to life on the page as well as the stage. If this play doesn't make you laugh out loud, check whether you have a heart. Jack Helbig
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