There are 4 characters. The curtain rises, and we see four empty theater seats. The writer of the play, Alex Myers, enters and sits on the far left. Shortly afterwards, a drama critic, Malcolm Leeds, comes in and sits on the far right, and in between them, there are two empty seats for the two female characters. It’s opening night. The playwright is obviously concerned and is reading the playbill intently. And when the drama critic sits down. The playwright recognizes the critic, and the critic looks up from his playbill, which has Alex’s picture in it, and realizes that Alex is the playwright. But both pretend not to have recognized each other, so he, too, buries his face in the playbill. The two ladies, Ethel Thomas and Mildred Jacobs, are visiting New York City for the first time. They are from a small town in New Jersey. They won the theater tickets as the grand prize for winning “The New York City Highlights Weekend,” their town’s annual pie-baking and knitting contest. As the play progresses, we soon discover that more theater takes place in these four FRONT ROW CENTER with these four characters than takes place with the characters on the stage.