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The Sit-Down Comedy of All In
John Mulaney and friends deliver bright readings of slight tales.
David Korins’s set decoration says “cool Upper West Side professor,” Jake DeGroot’s lights go heavy on the pink, and Lucy Mackinnon’s projections incorporate cute black-and-white cartoons that complete the sensation that we’re here for a Shouts & Murmurs read-aloud. It’s also set to feature plenty of that (my) generation’s SNL and Broadway favorites in its rotating cast: Mulaney will stick it out for half the show’s ten-week run, then switch out with Lin-Manuel Miranda, with different trios of well-known funny folks alongside them. The SNL influence is palpable: Rich is a writer in search of a sketch concept — usually a heightened genre that he can stuff with mundane, “oh, isn’t that relatable” scenarios and casually contemporary vocabulary in order to play off the disparity between form and content.
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