1. It's her Broadway debut, and her roots are actually in theatre.
2. She speaks in a solid Irish accent even though she, unlike the rest of the cast, isn't actually Irish.
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(She totally pulls it off!)
3. The play is by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley (in the light brown coat) who also wrote Doubt and Moonstruck.
4. And, plot-wise, it's similar to Moonstruck, so Debra Messing is basically like an Irish Cher.
They're both women who keep getting nagged by their families about their age and how they haven't found a spouse, both tough on the outside and romantic on the inside, both strong women who drive the story and are really entertaining to watch.
5. She is also working with an incredibly talented cast.
6. It's a romantic comedy, and she is the QUEEN of romantic comedies.
7. But her character is also dark and complex, which we haven't really seen her play before.
8. Mostly though, she encompasses a little bit of the awkwardness in all of us, which is super fun to watch.
