Don't Dress For Dinner

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My Obsessions

Tony Nominee Spencer Kayden Reveals Her Obsession with Lena Dunham’s Girls, Her Blender & Chicken Poop Lip Balm

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Broadway Ink

Squigs Sketches the Sexy Hijinks of Don’t Dress For Dinner, Starring Spencer Kayden & Jennifer Tilly

Tony Nominee Secrets

Secrets of the Tony Nominees! Which Broadway Show Makes Don't Dress For Dinner's Spencer Kayden ‘Tremble With Joy?’

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Don't Dress For Dinner's Jennifer Tilly Dishes on Kissing Strange ‘Men, Women & Dolls’ on The Wendy Williams Show

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Don’t Dress For Dinner's Jennifer Tilly Dishes on Woody Allen & Nasty Sandwiches on Watch What Happens

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Final Bow

Don't Dress For Dinner is Over

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2012 Tony Reactions

Don't Dress Nominee Spencer Kayden Is Happy Her 'Onstage Jackassery' Got a Nod

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About Don't Dress For Dinner on Broadway

Previews: Mar 30, 2012 • Opening: Apr 26, 2012 • Closing: Jun 17, 2012

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Secrets of the Tony Nominees: Spencer Kayden

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Todd Haimes Theatre

227 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036

Hearing Assistance

Assisted listening devices available. Infrared headsets are free to check out at coatcheck with a photo ID.

Wheelchair Access

The Orchestra and Rear Mezzanine are accessible.

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Elevators are available to all levels of the theater.

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Story

What Is the Story of Don’t Dress for Dinner?
Don’t Dress For Dinner centers around Bernard and Jacqueline, a not-so-happily married couple, both of whom are having extramarital affairs. As Jacqueline prepares to go out of town to visit her mother, Bernard invites his mistress and Robert, his best friend (and also Jacqueline’s lover, unbeknownst to Bernard), over for the weekend. He’s even hired a Cordon Bleu chef to cater the evening. Jacqueline discovers Robert is coming to town and cancels her trip, causing Bernard to panic. When Robert arrives, Bernard asks him to pretend Suzanne is Robert’s mistress. Robert mistakes the chef (Suzette), for Bernard’s mistress (Suzanne), producing a highly complicated dinner of hilarious hijinks, secret trysts and slapstick comedy.

Critics’ Reviews (5)

A collection of our favorite reviews from professional news sources.

"[Kayden] takes on a series of ever-more-outrageous personas depending on who is in the room. ''I should get an Oscar for this,' she says at one point. (Perhaps she'll settle for a Tony nomination.)"

Entertainment Weekly

Thom Geier

"Dinner is more sit-commy in its plotting, without any aspirations other than goofy comedy and sexual leering, but it still provides a healthy bunch of laughs in the process."

The Village Voice

Michael Musto

"William Ivey Long delivers with sumptuous costumes: bespoke striped suits, tuxes, a fur coat, French maid outfits, dinner gowns, and, yes, dressing gowns that reek of wealth and high thread counts."

Associated Press

Mark Kennedy

"Making the most of her rich opportunities, the gifted Kayden is a sober Plain Jane one minute and a rubber-limbed, Cointreau-soaked vamp the next, joining [Ben Daniels] in a killer tango."

The Hollywood Reporter

David Rooney