Name: Take Me Out starring Jesse Williams and Jesse Tyler Ferguson on Broadway
Start: 2022-10-27
End: 2023-02-05
Location: Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

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Jesse Tyler Ferguson stars in Take Me Out on Broadway at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson was born on October 22, 1975 in Missoula, Montana and later raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Ferguson has been acting since he was 8 years old, first as a member of Albuquerque Children's Theater and later in high school, and studied performance at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York.

Since then, he has built a prolific, 25-plus-year theatre career in New York and beyond. He made his Off-Broadway debut in On the Town at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, and he made his Broadway debut with that production, too, when it transferred to the Gershwin Theatre. His other best-known Broadway roles include Leaf Coneybear in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee — which earned him a Drama League Award nomination, and earned his entire ensemble a Drama Desk Award win — and Fully Committed, for which he won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance. He's also appeared in multiple Shakespeare in the Park productions, The Producers and Monty Python's Spamalot at the Hollywood Bowl, and Log Cabin off Broadway.

Most people know Ferguson, however, for his TV work — more specifically, for his role as Mitchell Pritchett on the ABC sitcom Modern Family. He was in the show for all 11 seasons, from 2009 to 2020, and received four Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series alongside his cast. He himself was also nominated five times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He's also appeared on shows like Ugly Betty, RuPaul's Drag Race, and The Good Fight.

In 2022, Ferguson returns to Broadway for the first time since doing Fully Committed in 2016. He plays Mason Marzac in the first revival of Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out, a role that won Denis O'Hare the Best Featured Actor Tony Award for the premiere Broadway production in 2002. Ferguson himself won a Tony for the role in 2022, and he's reprising it in Take Me Out's fall 2022 encore engagement.

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Richard Greenberg's Tony-winning play <a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/take-me-out" target="_blank">Take Me Out</a> returns to Broadway, urging the audience this time to be fully present. From the moment one walks into the <a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/hayes-theater" target="_blank">Hayes Theatre</a>, ushers command patrons to turn off cellphones and lock them away in a Yondr pouch — a secure device that remains sealed until everyone leaves the theatre. This precaution occurs for many reasons, but the most important is to protect the actors who occasionally appear fully nude. Unfortunately for this disjointed slow burn, the play's X-rated factor becomes the audience's talk point, a major distraction that causes some to miss the message or overlook it entirely.It's the 2002 baseball season and inside the Empires' locker room is a coming-out story. Star player Darren Lemming (a one-dimensional but overconfident Jesse Williams) is idolized as one who had the best of everything — "a Black man who never suffered." That is, until the day he comes out as gay. The guy who once served as his team's champion and beacon of all things "macho American sports" becomes dimmed down to a dude searching for identity, and he himself is buried in a story with its own identity crisis.Under the uneven direction of Scott Ellis, Take Me Out becomes a cluster of both remarkable and insignificant performances pieced together inside a scattered plot. The story's dramatic turns quickly evolve into humor and fluff. Though Jesse Tyler Ferguson gives one of his best performances to date as Mason Marzac, the audience is never allowed time to sit with the dramatic moments his character's comedic presence often follows.What Take Me Out does right is highlight how sportsmen, entrenched in a business that boasts the traditional expectations of masculinity, respond to a team member's homosexuality. The reactions move from open support to microaggressions to downright hostility. Oddly enough, the story that Greenberg wants us to pay attention to takes a back seat to the man who verbally causes Lemming the most harm. Michael Oberholtzer as Shane Mungitt, the team's new pitcher and unapologetic bigot, is the character that serves the audience uncomfortability and sympathy. I found myself questioning how this character became this way instead of focusing on the harm he causes Lemming and the rest of his team.Slow to bat, this play's second act serves as its home run. Inside the team showers, beautifully crafted by David Rockwell, a place of vulnerability (and nudity) marks the show's most memorable turning point. A private moment between Lemming, who until this moment was proud and confident, confronts Mungitt, exposing both characters' demons. What comes after is both tragic and enlightening.However, Take Me Out is not as relevant today as it was 20 years ago. In the history of Major League Baseball, only two players have come out as gay: Glenn Burke and Billy Bean. Today, each of America's big five sports categories currently has an openly gay man in the pros (though baseball's is in the minor leagues, not the MLB). We still have a long way to go in terms of our perception of masculinity — or what it even means to be male — and&nbsp;Take Me Out&nbsp;makes us aware of this, but uses a curve ball to do so.<a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/take-me-out" target="_blank">Take Me Out&nbsp;is at the Hayes Theatre through May 29. Get&nbsp;Take Me Out&nbsp;tickets on New York Theatre Guide.</a>Photo credit: Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams in Take Me Out.&nbsp;(Photo by Joan Marcus)

'Take Me Out' review — uneven play falls short of a home run

Take Me Out is at the Hayes Theatre through May 29. Get Take Me Out tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

Take Me Out Review | New York Theatre Guide

Designed by Herbert J. Krapp and built by the Shuberts in 1917, the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre originally opened as the Plymouth Theatre in 1918. The theatre was leased to producer Arthur Hopkins, whose first production at the venue was the comedy *A Successful Calamity*, starring William Gillette and Estelle Winwood.

The Shuberts regained control of the theatre in 1948 after Hopkins passed away. The building became a designated New York landmark in 1987 and received its current name in 2005 to honor the late chairman of the Shubert Organization.

The theatre's architectural style is similar that of the Broadhurst Theatre on 44th Street, which directly abuts the Schoenfeld. Krapp designed both theatres, and they were built at the same time.

## How to get to the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on Broadway

The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre is closest to the 42nd Street - Port Authority subway stop on the A, C, and E subway lines. The closest bus stops are 8th Ave/W 46th St. on the M20 and M104 lines; 7th Ave/W. 44th St. on the M104 line; and 8th Ave/W 43rd St. on the M20, M104, and M34A-SBS line.

## Restaurants near the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre is located one block southeast of Restaurant Row, the stretch of 46th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues lined with eateries serving various cuisines. Popular examples include Becco (Italian), Joe Allen (American), Le Rivage (French), and Jasmine's Caribbean Cuisine.

[Learn more about popular pre- and post-show restaurants in the Theatre District.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/news/where-to-eat-before-and-after-a-broadway-show)

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