Fallen Angels is a 90-minute Broadway production that trades on suppressed lust. Two upper-class married women (played brilliantly by Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara) find themselves on the cusp of an unexpected reunion with a premarital sexual partner—a Frenchman named Maurice and played by Mark Consuelos—just as their unwitting husbands leave for a golf weekend. Yes, way back when, the now poised and proper friends both enjoyed dalliances with the same man. How scandalous! But the news of a potential rendezvous in Venice, where they now live, is equal parts titillating and transgressive.
The question on deck—and the one that molds this hilarious Noël Coward comedy, first written in 1925—is this: Should their former lover actually make good on his promise to call, will they answer?
Thus kicks off a show so delightful, the dated-feeling nature of the scandal—sex before marriage—has nothing on the elegance, physical comedy and dry-witted humor Byrne and O’Hara (two pros) bring to the stage.
