"Dear Etiquette Guy:
Help! I just married a tycoon and suddenly I have a houseful of servants to supervise. I am often uncertain how to behave toward them. There's the maid, the groundskeeper, the wine steward- what's a modern lady of the house to do?
-Anxious in Aspen
Dear Anxious:
Thank you for your letter. This is a more common problem than you might expect. I refer you to the case of Sienna Miller, the star of "After Miss Julie," Patrick Marber's adaptation of the August Strindberg classic. Playing the title character-a young aristocrat who has an affair with her chauffeur, in the nineteen-forties-Miss Miller faced this very dilemma. So the Roundabout hired an etiquette coach: Frank Ventura, who has consulted on manners for "The Way of the World" (set in 1700), "The Constant Wife" (1926), and "Top Girls" (1982), and who is serving as Miss Miller's personal Emily Post."
Pick up The New Yorker to read Etiquette Guy's (aka Michael Shulman) complete advIce To Anxious and how that pertains to After Miss Julie in the Talk of the Town section, on news stands now.
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director), in association with Sonia Friedman Productions and Ostar Productions presents Sienna Miller as "Miss Julie", Jonny Lee Miller as "John" & Marin Ireland as "Christine" in the American premiere of playwright Patrick Marber's drama After Miss Julie, a version of Strindberg's Miss Julie, directed by Mark Brokaw.
After Miss Julie opens officially on October 22nd, 2009 at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway (227 West 42nd Street). This is a limited engagement through December 6th, 2009.
After Miss Julie transposes August Strindberg's 1888 play about sex and class to an English country house on the eve of Labour's historic landslide in 1945.
Tickets are available by calling Roundabout Ticket Services at (212)719-1300, online at www.roundabouttheatre.org or at the American Airlines Box Office (227 West 42nd Street). Ticket prices range from $66.50 to $111.50.
After Miss Julie will play Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 8:00 p.m. with Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m.
Article reprinted with permission from www.BroadwayWorld.com
