The "Will & Grace" star is now on Broadway as Oscar Levant, the witty and eccentric musical celebrity whose mental health struggles and addictions come front-and-center during a 1958 appearance on Jack Paar's "The Tonight Show."
If ever a play had good reason to front-load itself with exposition, Good Night, Oscar is it. Once among America's premiere wits and raconteurs, Oscar Levant has gone the way of many another once-famous wits and raconteurs. Which is to say, he needs lots of exposition.