On the sofa. The House of Blue Leaves, which opened on Monday at the Walter Kerr Theater, has a starry cast featuring Ben Stiller and Edie Falco.

Bob Hope. When everyone else has left, Bananas begins acting like a wild animal again.Artie grabs her around the neck and chokes the life out of her. The plan is dependent assistance from This news has a strange soothing effect on Bananas. You should hear him with me, you’d sing a different tune pretty quick, and it wouldn’t be “Where Is the Devil in Evelyn.” I was twelve years old and all the newspapers had headlines on my twelfth birthday that Billy was coming to town.

Artie then places a call to the mental hospital with the request for them to come and take Bananas.Ronnie suddenly appears and announces that he has built a bomb and plans to blow up the Pope. But before Artie can reach out to Billy, Artie's son, Ronnie, goes AWOL from Fort Dix, secretly preparing to blow up His Holiness at Yankee Stadium. All carrying suitcases. It is nighttime and Artie is in his ramshackle Queens apartment sleeping. Artie again launches into a song for the benefit of Corrinna when Bananas pleads with him to sing an old song that turns out to be same tune as “White Christmas.” A mortified Artie forces Bananas to take her pills again, but the pills wind up actually being parts used in Corrinna’s hearing aid. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. What his mistress, Bunny Flingus, who lives downstairs from his Queens apartment won't tell him -- and what his ... By tonite, I’ll be on headlines all over the world. Dedicating the play to his parents, Guare seems to exorcise their hold on him: “I liked them, loved them, stayed too long, and didn’t go away.” His comment is a perverse variation of a song written by his father for Guare’s mother before Guare’s birth.

Show Type Based on Guare’s father (who referred to his Wall Street job as a “zoo”), Artie comes home from his job to an untidy house. His pronouncement falls on deaf ears as Corrinna tells Artie that she and Billy have decided to move to Australia. Show When Billy learns that the nun’s two friends also died in the explosion, he is moved to get Ronnie out of jail.While he calls the jail, Bunny shows up.
There are a handful of primary characters. Gender At that point, the Pope is appearing on TV and so they sit back and watch him for a little while before Bananas head back to her bedroom and Artie gets up and hugs the TV set.When Bunny returns, she brings news that the Pope has arrived. Artie seems genuinely moved by her story and is moved to insist she come and see the Pope because, after all, miracles do happen. Character Just then the lone surviving nun breathlessly shows up flustered over not being able to get the hot water to turn off. Guare’s style, that of the dream in which anything can happen, brings together in one rich, highly detailed tapestry the diverse color and strands of his own life—Catholicism, politics, and art. Of course, it may simply have been the case that Ronnie’s low self-esteem merely made him believe that Billy seriously thought he might be retarded.


When she demands to know if he’s got plans to abandon her, Artie responds by making her take her pills and then announces he is only going out to check out the Pope. Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! Artie Shaughnessy is an aspiring songwriter who currently works as a local zookeeper. Billy is devastated by the loss of Corrinna. He wears a brushcut and large glasses.