{"id":2380553,"date":"2026-04-20T01:16:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2380553"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:16:35","slug":"fallen-angels-review-rose-byrne-kelli-ohara-offer-hilarity-in-rice-paper-thin-broadway-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/fallen-angels-review-rose-byrne-kelli-ohara-offer-hilarity-in-rice-paper-thin-broadway-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fallen Angels&#8217; review: Rose Byrne, Kelli O&#8217;Hara offer hilarity in rice-paper-thin Broadway revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F04%2Fnewspress-collage-nqqszw1jj-1776647339138.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261776632968\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--review alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n\t\t<span 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At the Todd Haimes Theatre, 227 W. 42nd Street.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There\u2019s not much more to \u201cFallen Angels,\u201d No\u00ebl Coward\u2019s rice-paper-thin 1925 comedy, than two sex-crazed women getting wasted.<\/p>\n<p>That brief synopsis alone probably just sent a bunch of you racing to the box office website.<\/p>\n<p>But then there are the two marvelously matched actresses playing the Olympian lushes in the revival that opened Sunday at the Todd Haimes Theatre: Oscar nominee Rose Byrne and Tony Award winner Kelli O\u2019Hara.<\/p>\n<p>The game pair begin as the picture of Coward ladies, for whom humor is typically delivered from the neck up. But they soon drunkenly devolve into a flailing and maniacal Edina and Patsy from the Brit-com \u201cAbsolutely Fabulous,\u201d falling over armchairs and crawling on the carpet of a gorgeous London apartment in silky gowns while pounding Champagne.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Oscar nominee Rose Byrne and Tony Award winner Kelli O\u2019Hara star in No\u00ebl Coward\u2019s \u201cFallen Angels\u201d revival. <span class=\"credit\">Joan Marcus<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--columnist inline-module--more--thirds\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading subsection-heading subsection-heading--single-line \">\n\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"subsection-heading__sub\">Johnny Oleksinski<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>They drink, they smoke, they scream, they tumble. They\u2019re wives gone wild.<\/p>\n<p>That riot of a second scene of the playlet, one of the \u201cPrivate Lives\u201d writer\u2019s early, lesser efforts, is delicious and lowers the audience\u2019s shoulders after a very shaky start of oversold jokes and ear-drum-piercing British accents that run the gamut.<\/p>\n<p>The alcohol-fueled hilarity and fun aren\u2019t really the result of anything Coward wrote though \u2014 there\u2019s only a drizzle of wit to be found here \u2014 but because Byrne and O\u2019Hara are largely left to their own insane devices.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The closest that one comes to going toe to toe with O\u2019Hara and Byrne is Tracee Chimo as Julia\u2019s maid Saunders. <span class=\"credit\">Joan Marcus<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Of course, every party kicks off with the awkward \u201cHow about this weather?\u201ds and ends the next morning with a raging hangover. \u201cFallen Angels\u201d is much the same \u2014 the middle is splendid and then there\u2019s the rest.<\/p>\n<p>What has driven these desperate women to the bottle? Byrne plays Jane and O\u2019Hara is Julia, a pair of unhappily married friends whose seven-year itch has them scratching 24\/7. Their husbands Willy (Christopher Fitzegerald) and Fred (Aasif Mandvi) are stiff bores and the domestic drudgery has grown suffocating.<\/p>\n<p>Then \u2014 bonjour! \u2014 the duo learns that an old French flame they both had flings with back in the day named Maurice Duclos (Mark Consuelos) is coming to town. On the night he\u2019s supposed to stop by, the girls have dinner and down a whole vineyard\u2019s supply of booze in nervousness and then animalistic frustration.<\/p>\n<p>Forget binge-watching, this is watch binging.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Byrne and O\u2019Hara play two \u201csex-crazed women\u201d getting wasted, delivering a riotous, drunken performance. <span class=\"credit\">Joan Marcus<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Byrne, whose hair toward the end might\u2019ve been styled by the Bride of Frankenstein, excels in roles that have an outwardly perfect person epically fall apart. See: \u201cBridesmaids,\u201d \u201cNeighbors\u201d and \u201cIf I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You.\u201d Actually, \u201cIf I had legs, I\u2019d kick you!\u201d sounds like a line her sloshed Jane would yell. Physically, Byrne plays the part like it\u2019s a modern Hollywood comedy and walks away with most of the laughs.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Hara also has a knack for put-together types, like Anna in \u201cThe King and I\u201d or Nellie Forbush in \u201cSouth Pacific.\u201d But, outside of some unexpected romance, those classic musical sopranos generally stay upright. Watching such a fine-china actress as O\u2019Hara shatter on the floor, sliding down designer David Rockwell\u2019s grand staircase and crudely spitting out sweets, is a hoot.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, right! There are four other people in this play.<\/p>\n<p>The closest that one comes to going toe to toe with O\u2019Hara and Byrne is Tracee Chimo as Julia\u2019s maid Saunders. The character is a one-gag amusement. The gist is that Saunders has an unexpected wealth of life experience for a housekeeper and constantly interjects. A \u201cyes, ma\u2019am!\u201d chipper Chimo is fine, but the bit wears thin.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The husbands, played by Christopher Fitzegerald and Aasif Mandvi, are \u201cstiff bores\u201d who drag down the play. <span class=\"credit\">Joan Marcus<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And neither of the actors playing the cuckolded men is any good. It\u2019s easy to dismiss them as unnecessary passengers in a two-star vehicle, but they really do drag down the play.<\/p>\n<p>An overarching problem of director Scott Ellis\u2019 production is its attempts to spin every moment into comic gold quite clunkily, when actors should be zipping through the setup. The hubbys are the main offenders, taking their uppercrust puffery to an obnoxious extreme. And because of their cartoonishness, we never believe they so much as live with these women, let alone are married to them.<\/p>\n<p>Consuelos arrives fashionably late, and his French brogue is, ahem, sacre bleu!<\/p>\n<p>These guys sure make you need a drink. So, it\u2019s a good thing that when Byrne and O\u2019Hara pop the cork, they glug away Jane and Julia\u2019s problems and, for at least half an hour, ours too.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>movie review Fallen Angels One hour and 30 minutes with no intermission. At the Todd Haimes Theatre, 227 W. 42nd Street. There\u2019s not much more to \u201cFallen Angels,\u201d No\u00ebl Coward\u2019s rice-paper-thin 1925 comedy, than two sex-crazed women getting wasted. 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