This December, John Mulaney is coming back to Broadway with his new show, 'All In: Comedy About Love'. The story is all about love, relationships, and marriage, and he teams up with a former Saturday Night Live writer, Simon Rich. The show will feature a rotating cast performing little sketches based on Rich's short stories. Helmed by Tony Award winner Alex Timbers, it's rounded out with legends like Fred Armisen and Richard Kind, plus Hamilton's Renée Elise Goldsberry.
John Mulaney called the show “an enormously gratifying thing,” for its star-studded cast in an interview with The New York Times. He will headline for the first five weeks of the 10-week run. It will have Armisen and Goldsberry popping in on a few dates.
According to Rolling Stone, the production team name-dropped that even though it has everything from musical set pieces to acrobats performing vertical stunts, what it is, at the bottom, is about one very straightforward story. One might expect short skits of pirates, dogs, and British accents.
The star-studded cast of All In: Comedy About Love featuring John Mulaney
All In: Comedy About Love's first five weeks will be kicked off by John Mulaney, fresh back from his Netflix special Baby J. He'll be joined by SNL's Fred Armisen, Tony Award winner Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Richard Kind whom you might recognize from Only Murders in the Building, and Mad About You.
That cast will begin changing throughout the show's run, People reports, with Goldsberry taking center stage from December 11 through December 30, then Chloe Fineman jumping in from January 2 to January 12.
As John Mulaney described to The New York Times,
"It’s like we’re all kids at play, just having fun with stories that explore something deeper."
Simon Rich's creative vision and Alex Timbers' direction
The show is written by the sharp-witted Simon Rich: a former SNL writer, and a humorist celebrity in his own right. He has worked with John Mulaney before and knows his way around clever comedy which sandwiches laughter between sincerity.
Rich's short stories, which you might have read in The New Yorker, give a base to this play in its take on love, marriage, and those sometimes minuscule moments that come to define our relationships.
“I am so goddamn happy to return to Broadway this winter with my favorite writer ever,” Mulaney shared in his official announcement, per People.
This is the second time John Mulaney has teamed up with Alex Timbers, a Broadway director who has helmed projects like Moulin Rouge! and Oh, Hello, starring Mulaney and his friend Nick Kroll.
According to Rich's statement to Rolling Stone, the central theme of the piece is the idea that:
“The most important part of life is who we share it with”.
Mark your calendars for 'All In: Comedy About Love' on December 11, 2024, for a special 10-week run at the Hudson Theatre in NYC. Tickets go on sale beginning September 26, but presales get underway a day earlier, on September 25.
