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    Review: Sean Hayes is stunning as ‘Good Night, Oscar’ opens on Broadway

    NEW YORK — In November 1958, the brilliant composer, concert pianist and outré humorist Oscar Levant, then under medical supervision, appeared live on NBC’s “Tonight” show with Jack Paar in front of millions of Americans. Audiences had no idea whether they watching the most daring, dramatic and hilarious talk-show appearance they ever had seen, or an appalling exploitation by Paar of an ...
    by Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune Apr 26, 2023 3 minutes
    Ben Rappaport and Sean Hayes in "Good Night, Oscar" at the Belasco Theatre in New York.

    NEW YORK — In November 1958, the brilliant composer, concert pianist and outré humorist Oscar Levant, then under medical supervision, appeared live on NBC’s “Tonight” show with Jack Paar in front of millions of Americans.

    Audiences had no idea whether they watching the most daring, dramatic and hilarious talk-show appearance they ever had seen, or an appalling exploitation by Paar of an emotionally disturbed and profoundly ill man.

    “What Mr. Paar did,” back then in the New

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