Classic Mr NYC

In early March, 2020, I blogged about Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick who I dubbed as The First Couple of NYC Culture. The long-married thespians were just weeks away from debuting on Broadway together in a revival of Neil Simon's classic play Plaza Suite. 

We all know what happened next.

Now, after a two-year pandemic interruption, the show has finally gone on. Plaza Suite has opened and is a big hit (my wife saw it with a friend and loved it). SJP and MB remain one of the premiere couples of NYC showbiz, as this long joint interview with them proves.

In many ways, as popular and hip as they are, you get the sense that as actors and New Yorkers, there's something almost provincial and old-fashioned about them. I mean this in a good way! They genuinely love acting, theater, NYC, and each other -- and they want us to share it with them. They work here because they live here, and they live here because they love it here. They're not movie stars doing a high-priced turn on Broadway and then checking out to make their next blockbuster -- this profession, this show, and this city are home for them and all of us. 

You get the sense there's nothing else they'd rather do and feel blessed doing it in a place they'd no rather be. It's beautiful to behold.