Some of the best scenes are between Andy and co-manager Mark (Cliff Chamberlain, serving smarminess as thick as oil). Marquez’s Andy is at the center of everything, from the Crockpot buffet in the break room to the endless “zoning” (cleaning up after customers) required throughout the massive store. The myriad stories are stretched thin as the drama veers from comedy toward tragedy and back again.
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Among the employees, there are aspiring attorneys, disappointed managerial candidates, cancer survivors, tentative romances, a serial sexual harasser and a would-be union organizer. The play isn’t propelled by an overarching plot it’s more a series of loosely linked vignettes. In all, “Wally World” sacrifices depth for quantity. Others - there’s a whole lot of crackling walkie-talkie chatter - are little more than filler. (It helps to have a cheat sheet of characters for the first act, which Steppenwolf provides.) Some topics - such as a mass shooting at another Wally World location nearby - are broached too briefly.
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That’s a lot of characters to keep track of by voice alone, particularly for the first 20 minutes. That’s a lot of ground to cover, even with a run time of two-and-a-half hours. There are 10 characters, each with his or her own arc. The primary issue is the wide scope Gómez attempts in his script. As assistant manager Janie (Karen Rodriguez) puts it while surveying the grocery department: “If it wasn’t for me, you wouldn’t have food right now, would you?”īut while the cast is excellent and the dialogue sharply recognizable to anyone who has worked in a big box store and/or suffered through a mandatory company holiday party before their shift starts, “Wally World’s” impact is diluted by too many plot lines. Co-directed by Gómez and Lili-Anne Brown, “Wally World” is a valentine to the essential workers responsible in large part for making the Christmas presents possible and keeping people fed year-round.
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