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GRAND HORIZONS IS A LIGHT COMEDY EVERYONE CAN RELATE TO
Grand Horizons is a light, feathery comedy about age, love, marriage, and how we habituate to not saying what is on our minds for a lifetime.
Nancy and Bill have been with each other for 50 years. Their hey-day was the1960s and 70s since they are both 80 years old. They live in a housing development for people who are in the twilight of their lives. Their home is clean, bright, organized, and designed with fresh-looking furniture they might have bought from Drexel Heritage and with accents from one of those shopping villages in Pennsylvania. While they practice their morning dining ritual, Nancy, played elegantly by the still beautiful Jane Alexander suddenly says, she wants a divorce. Her husband, Bill, played by the prodigious James Cromwell, casually responds, “all right.”
The immediate family descends into disorder as their sons Ben (Ben McKenzie) an attorney and wife Jess, a therapist (Ashley Park) who is expecting a child, as well as son Brian a gay theater teacher (Michael Urie), show up to manage their parent’s upheaval. While Brian tries to counsel his mother and block her wishes to leave his dad, she unleashes a torrent of surprises he is not ready to hear, ever. Ben is a nervous wreck and alienates his wife by being stoic and resentful. Bill loves to tell jokes, and he too is carrying secrets. Though he is deeply…
