Schumer and Keegan-Michael Key lend star power to 'Meteor Shower,' but it's still space junk
NEW YORK - A fascinating experiment is underway on Broadway. A substandard comedy that received, let's just say, mixed reviews out of town has been recast with fashionably hip actors in a new production testing whether contemporary star power can override feeble playwriting.
When Steve Martin's "Meteor Shower" had its world premiere at San Diego's Old Globe last year in a co-production with Connecticut's Long Wharf Theatre, I remembered being almost in disbelief that a work this half-baked was being produced not just by one but by two venerable nonprofit theaters. Martin's celebrity goes a long way, I said to myself on the drive back to L.A., never suspecting that Broadway producers and top-tier talents from the worlds of comedy
