Cellino & Barnes Are Back… As An Off-Broadway Play – Above the Law

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An entire lot of you hummed that while you learn it. The toll-free quantity for the now splintered Cellino & Barnes agency may be essentially the most highly effective lawyer jingle of all time. It rang out from TV units for many years. Everybody inside its attain might immediately determine the agency from the primary few notes.

It was the stuff of social media challenges:

However then… it was gone.

The agency fractured into Cellino Regulation and the Barnes Agency amidst a torrent of drama and acrimony.

The jingle was gone, the erotic fan artwork remained.

Then in 2019, we realized that the as soon as ubiquitous agency’s dissolution would hit the stage within the type of a brand new play. Comedians Michael Breen and David Rafailedes, penned Cellino v. Barnes — tagline “Damage attorneys. Injured hearts.” — timed to premiere in Brooklyn proper because the litigation between Cellino and Barnes was set to start.

Now the manufacturing has seen a revival as a now literal off-Broadway manufacturing, working by way of October 13 on the Asylum Theater on twenty fourth Road.

Per Gothamist:

An early evaluate from Mashable referred to as the manufacturing “outrageous, entertaining and even a bit poignant,” whereas the New York Theatre Information cautioned that the gimmick would possibly put on skinny.

We listened to them sing a quantity for 1 / 4 century… we’re effectively past “sporting skinny.”

An off-Broadway play satirizes the real-life relationship of legal professionals Cellino and Barnes [Gothamist]

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