The first-ever play about hedge funds just doesn’t cut it on the theater scene, at least critic-wise. One would think that the stage piece, Burleigh Grime$, boasting the star power of TV’s Wendie Malick and Mark Moses, with music by David Yazbek, who scored with the hit Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, would sparkle. But the play about two trading types (described in various publications as hedgies) who try to make a killing by short selling has been described in The New York Times as “a feeble-witted comedy” that is “long on ludicrous plot and short on fresh humor.” The author of what Broadway.com calls a ”flimsy stinker of a play” is Roger Kirby, a lawyer with Kirby, McInerney & Squire, who has four other stage works under his belt. Based on the reception it’s gotten, one could bet that Burleigh Grime$, named for the legendary baseball player whose claim to fame was lobbing legal spitballs, will not bring credit to the hedge fund industry or the talent involved with the production.
