Big Business
Two Free Women: Lily Tomlin & Jane Wagner
September 12 - 16, 2019
Tomlin and Bette Midler pivot nimbly between dual roles in this switched-at-birth farce about a pair of twins who get mixed up in a rural maternity ward and forty years later, are embroiled in a delirious city-versus-country romp of mistaken identities.
Switched-at-birth farce Big Business concerns a pair of twins who get mixed up in a rural maternity ward. Forty years later, one pair, Rose and Sadie (Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler) are now the executives of their father’s conglomerate Moramax. When the company plans to divest its holdings in the West Virginia furniture maker Hollowmade, their country counterparts Rose and Sadie (also Tomlin and Midler) head to New York to protest the sale and save their town, resulting in a delirious romp of mistaken identities. Working from a script that Jane Wagner finessed in its final stages, Tomlin and Midler pivot nimbly between their dual roles, comic foils to each other and themselves.
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