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A Celebration of Women in Comedy: POTUS on Broadway + Dinner

  • 321 West 46th Street New York, NY, 10036 United States (map)

Join us the evening of Wednesday July 13th when we see the hilarious new comedy, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive on Broadway!

An uproarious Broadway debut by playwright Selina Fillinger, directed by five-time Tony Award® winner Susan Stroman, POTUS is a riotous comedy about the women in charge of the man in charge of the free world.

It features an all-star cast of women, including Tony Award nominee Lilli Cooper, Screen Actors Guild Award winner Lea DeLaria, SNL comedy legend Rachel Dratch, Emmy Award winner Julianne Hough, and Grammy, Emmy & Tony Award nominee Vanessa Williams, among others.

We will start the evening with 6pm dinner on restaurant row at beautiful, woman-owned Barbetta (in the garden, weather-permitting), followed by the 8pm show.

All tickets include a seat in row G of the Mezzanine with the group. Full experience tickets also include shared appetizers at dinner. All other food/drink will need to be ordered and paid separately on site.

Show only: $78 
Full experience including appetizers at dinner: $108

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Full schedule:

6pm | Pre-show dinner at Barbetta
321 West 46th St.

7:45pm | Meet for 8pm show at the Shubert theater
225 W 44th St.

More about the show:

One 4-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most will risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the Commander in Chief out of trouble.

“It’s a little vulgar, a little nonsensical (again, Dratch), but somehow, it is also the most enjoyable play I’ve seen in a while. POTUS is a heck of a good time and a hell of a laugh.” — Amanda Marie Miller at Theatrely

“What has indisputably been established throughout both acts is that the seven cast members are each worth whatever salary they're getting and more… This ensemble makes an implicit argument of its own for female accomplishment: Even when their characters are floundering hopelessly, these ladies are pros.” — David Finkle, New York Stage Review

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More about Barbetta:

Barbetta, having celebrated its 100th Anniversary in 2006, is the oldest restaurant in New York that is still owned by the family that founded it. Barbetta is also the oldest Italian restaurant in New York, and the oldest restaurant in New York's Theatre District.

This three-fold distinction makes this historic restaurant a landmark among New York restaurants. Its landmark status has been recognized by the prestigious and highly selective Locali Storici d'Italia, which has designated Barbetta a Locale Storico (Historic Establishment), the first restaurant in America to have been so named.

Founded in 1906 by Sebastiano Maioglio, Barbetta is now owned by his daughter, Laura Maioglio.

Barbetta features the cuisine of Piemonte, Italy's northwestern-most region, bordering on Switzerland and France. The restaurant is decorated with 18th century Piemontese antiques, most notable among these the great chandelier that hangs in the main dining room. This 18th century Piemontese chandelier was obtained by Ms. Maioglio from a palazzo in Torino (capital of Piemonte), which formerly belonged to the Savoys, Italy's royal family. Another important piece is the harpsichord in the foyer, signed Francesco Fabbri 1631, an extremely rare instrument which the Metropolitan Museum has requested be donated to them.

In its interior design, Barbetta was the first elegant Italian restaurant created in New York (1962). This represented a radical departure from the prevailing but erroneous notion which existed at that time in America that Italian restaurants are invariably "rustic" and that Italian food must be similarly "rustic."

Barbetta likewise transformed Italian cuisine in America. It was the first Italian restaurant to present dishes that were elegant, yet at the same time absolutely authentic and well known to Italians in Italy although unfamiliar at that time (1962) to Americans. It introduced the American public to the traditional and refined dishes of Piemonte, the region from which Barbetta's owners originate and where they still maintain their 17th century family palazzo, in Fubine Monferrato.The great white truffle dishes of Piemonte are served on a regular basis during the truffle season, from October to Christmas. Barbetta was the first restaurant in America to offer white truffles on a continuous and regular basis during the truffle season, maintaining its own truffle hunters and truffle hounds in Piemonte, Italy. As early as 1973 Barbetta was so closely identified with white truffles, that Bloomingdale's asked Barbetta to do a truffle exhibition, where 500 portions of Fonduta con Tartufi were served to notable guests. Barbetta also introduced other Piemontese dishes previously unknown to the American public such as Bagna Cauda, a gregarious "country" dish where the guests gather around the table to dip raw vegetables into a central simmering pot of an anchovy olive oil sauce.

More recently, the cuisine in Piemonte began an evolution towards even greater elegance and refinement together with beauty of presentation. The cuisine at Barbetta developed along similar lines. While Barbetta continued to serve Piemonte's great traditional dishes (something often abandoned in Piemonte itself), it began to create an equal number of everchanging new dishes. These have a distinctive style of there own, true to Ms. Maioglio's belief that any new dish should have identifiable roots, a " pedigree" which reveals itself in the taste of the dish. The evolution of Barbetta's cuisine from its founding in 1906 can be traced through Barbetta's menu on which by each dish is noted the year it was first served at Barbetta. This menu has been reproduced in two recent major books dealing with culinary history.