Moved to perhaps the greatest degree you’ll experience all day — and there are other reach-for-the-tissues milestones in this big Broadway epic — you do at this point ask yourself: Was there enough to this exhausting trip to make it worth it?Well, ultimately, I’d say yes, but with some caveats. Instead, you were concerned about … It could take a whole book to work that out. He leaves the house to Eric, his spiritual heir, but Henry and his sons Paul and Charles (just like in However, when the now famous and successful Toby falls in love with Adam who rejects him after Toby has moved out on Eric, he becomes a hedonist living only for pleasure, having lost most of his friends. In her one scene, Lois Smith as the housekeeper Margaret Avery has a poignantly affective monologue which should be a shoo-in for a Tony Award nomination. He is a voting member of The Drama Desk, the Outer Critics Circle, the American Theatre Critics Association, and the Dramatists Guild of America. Plenty of people in your situation would’ve been bitter about not getting any inheritance, but not you. The play begins with a writing class run by Morgan (Paul Hilton), a stand-in for E.M. Forster himself. The Inheritance is loosely based ... costumes are every day modern clothes and it becomes clear that all the young men are barefoot and the older generation wearing shoes. The Inheritance raises the tweedy persona of Forster from beyond the grave, incarnated with prim donnishness by Paul Hilton, who mingles cautiously with a handsome pack of Chelsea boys. Crowley’s costumes have the younger members of the cast in changing casual outfits and bare feet, while the older cast members wear shoes, with the old-fashioned Morgan/Walter in a three-piece suit.John Benjamin Hickey, Kyle Soller, Arturo Luís Soria, Darryl Gene Daughtry Jr., Dylan Frederick and Kyle Harris in a scene from Matthew Lopez’s “The Inheritance” at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy for MurphyMade)Under Daldry’s assured direction, one never feels that the cast is acting but playing themselves. Matthew Lopez’s two-part The Inheritance with its extensive running time is a commitment but a theatrical experience that must be seen. Walter promises to take Eric to see it but he dies suddenly before this trip can occur. The rest of the fine cast (Jordan Barbour, Jonathan Burke, Darryl Gene Daughtry Jr., Dylan Frederick, Kyle Harris, Carson McCalley, and Arturo Luís Soria) playing Eric and Toby’s close friends and other characters in the story add able support, making this a true ensemble.Samuel H. Levine, Kyle Soller, Kyle Harris, Arturo Luís Soria, Jordan Barbour and Darryl Gene Daughtry Jr. (kneeling) in a scene from Matthew Lopez’s “The Inheritance” at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy for MurphyMade)Running time: Part I – three hours and 20 minutes with two intermissionsPart II – three hours and ten minutes with two intermissionsVictor Gluck was a drama critic and arts journalist with Back Stage from 1980 – 2006. Hilton, who also portrays the late Forster (and is referred to as “Morgan”), speaks to the other characters; sometimes characters narrate their own actions, adding another layer of novelistic conceit.Lopez’s supporting mainstays are the friends in Eric’s life, all trying to hold on to their gains as the Obama era flickers out and a more hostile America takes shape. He is inexorably drawn to life’s heat, embodied by Adam (Samuel H. Levine), a younger man and budding Broadway star. Because the playwright has created as his central character a contemporary young gay man of comfortable means for whom the epidemic is only a history chapter, the present-day suffering detailed in “The Inheritance” can feel manufactured and minor. Hi Barefoot, My dad died three years ago and left his house ($1 million) and super ($200,000) to my brother, and made me the executor. As a result, no time is lost in scene changes as one sequence segues into the next. He started reviewing for TheaterScene.net in 2006, where he was also Associate Editor from 2011-2013, and has been Editor-in-Chief since 2014. NEW YORK — Deep, deep, deep into “The Inheritance” — Matthew Lopez’s elegiac reckoning for gay men in the era after the AIDS plague — a woman finally appears on the stage. When the story opens, the players are barefoot, dressed (by Crowley) in casually elegant style, and draped all over the stage. The advance is said to be in the millions and ticking — enough to buy its cast some shoes. While Toby spirals out of control as he introduces Leo to a rich and cultural life without making any commitments to him, Eric becomes close to the widowed Henry, a conservative Republican certain to tick off Eric’s friends, who eventually asks to marry him. A lesser actor would think welling up would be called for. Its timely themes make the story much greater than itself while telling an engrossing story of people we come to care about. The cast of Matthew Lopez’s “The Inheritance” at Broadway’s Barrymore Theatre. With disease a receding worry and same-sex marriage a reality, Eric’s concerns are raising a family and passing on to the next generation an understanding of the struggle of the men who died needlessly and horribly before the virus could be contained.Toby, in Burnap’s impressive, spasmodic bursts of nervous energy, loves Eric some but himself more.