King of the Yees
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Stage Door
Full guide →When to go. Head straight out at curtain call. Two-show days are the worst bet at both performances — the cast rests through the matinee and is spent by the evening. A Sunday matinee is the best single bet, because it is a one-show day. In bad weather the barricades sometimes never go up at all.
Who comes out. Anywhere from nobody to most of the cast. Nobody can tell you in advance which three — not us, not the theatre. Treat any list that claims otherwise with suspicion.
What to bring. Tonight’s Playbill and a fine-tip Sharpie, held open to the page you want signed. Ask before you photograph anyone, and keep the pavement clear — it is a working door, not a red carpet.
Shared door. This door also serves the Pershing Square Signature Center — Irene Diamond Stage and the Pershing Square Signature Center — Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre, so some of the crowd is waiting for a different show.
No public door. Performers leave through the lobby, the same way you did. There is nowhere separate to wait.
Why “still confirming”. The theatre details above are solid. What we haven’t nailed down is whether this particular production does a stage door — that changes with the cast, and no source publishes it. We’d rather say so than guess.
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The Lowdown
Larry Yee has spent almost twenty years as the beating heart of the Yee Fung Toy Family Association, a fraternal club in San Francisco's Chinatown. To his daughter Lauren — a playwright who lit out for New York — the whole thing looks like a beautiful, baffling relic. Then Larry vanishes, and Lauren has to chase him through a wild, funny, slightly magical version of her own family history to get him back.
King of the Yees is Lauren Yee's “kind of true” comedy about what we inherit, what we roll our eyes at, and what we'd actually run through a wall to keep. It's warm, it's strange, and it does not sit still for a second. Tony winner Francis Jue returns as Larry — a role he has been perfecting since the play's San Francisco and Chicago runs — joined by Kelly Marie Tran and Daniel K. Isaac, with Joshua Kahan Brody directing.
It plays Signature Theatre's Alice Griffin Jewel Box, a cozy 191-seat room on West 42nd where nobody sits far from the stage. Previews start October 6, opening night is October 19, and the run wraps November 15. If you have ever loved a parent and completely failed to understand them at the same time, this one is going to land.
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