Of course it works. Two old friends known for their clownish escapades, always wanting to get back to somewhere they were – anywhere but here, really – all the while using ever so odd verbiage to conduct idiosyncratic conversations that only sound a bit absurd on the surface but actually speak to real emotion and maybe genuine friendship. I can’t remember if the Bill & Ted movies were loaded with despair and suicidal ideation – I think not – but the stars of those movies, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter probably had the chops ready to go, as they demonstrate in Samuel Beckett’s post-war classic Waiting For Godot , directed by Jamie Lloyd and opening tonight at Broadway ‘s Hudson Theatre.

Bringing his impeccable, austere design and movement sensibilities to a play that has great u

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