Lyceum Theatre,New York
Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s turn as a do-upon restaurant worker has more elements than El Bulli’s taster menu, and just as many surprisesOn a nondescript morning a few weeks before Christmas, and struggling actor Sam Callaghan (contemporary Family’s Jesse Tyler Ferguson) descends into the bowels of a trendy restaurant to carry out his day job and manage the reservation line. With its dusty cans of tomatoes,clunky file cabinets and clanging pipes, this basement isn’t precisely the Inferno, and but you can see by the set of his shoulders and the droop of his mouth that Sam abandons all hope as soon as he enters. His perdition only worsens when he learns that the reservation manager is missing,Heston Blumenthal has arrived unexpectedly, the staff meal has already been eaten and a sick customer has fouled the men’s room in a most appalling manner. Timorous Sam must deal with all of these crises while answering the constantly ringing phones (the three dozen callers and restaurant staff are also voiced by Ferguson).
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Source: theguardian.com