Ethan Slater’s Hot Ticket: ‘Marcel on the Train’
“Marcel on the Train” is not a comedy, although the play’s star and cowriter Ethan Slater promises that there’s laughter to be had. “We kind of knew that it was a show that effectively made people laugh until the stakes got too high to laugh anymore,” says Slater of the new production, which was extended the day before its first preview on Feb 5. The play opens Feb. 22, and is set to run through March 22. The actor, coming off two years of “Wicked” film promo for his role as Boq, is sitting in the cafe outside the intimate Lynn F. Angelson Theater in New York in mid-January. He just finished a rehearsal of the piece, which he cowrote with director Marshall Pailet. “Marcel on the Train” lands at the East Village theater after its initial 2024 workshop during the Williamstown Theatre Festival, a prominent summertime incubator for new creative work in the Berkshires. Even in its early unstaged format, “people responded really strongly to it, which was exciting,” says Slater, reflecting on the experience. Slater stars in the intimate show as famous French mime Marcel Marceau, born in 1923. Marceau, whose onstage alter-ego was Bip the Clown, made numerous appearances on TVFollow WWD on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.
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