![]() The actor does some impressive voices, and not just comic ones. Pancholy certainly has moments of hilarity during the 90 minutes of “Fully Committed,” which requires that he switch rapidly between Sam and a hectic array of absurdly demanding customers - regulars, rubes, mobsters, socialites and celebrities all vying to get a seat at the table – as well as vividly unsupportive colleagues – a coked-up cook, a vulgar haranguing chef, an obnoxious co-worker named Bob who is AWOL, leaving Sam overwhelmed. “Fully Committed” also feels at something of a remove because it satirizes a phenomenon that doesn’t quite exist right now – the kind of trendy Manhattan restaurant that charges $300 per person, and takes reservations three months in advance, unless you’re Diane Sawyer or Gwyneth Paltrow or the wife of a moneybags who might have invented Botox.Īnd it stars Pancholy, the brightly comic actor best known for 30 Rock and Weeds, whom I’ve found funny many times, most recently in a reading last year of funny short stories at Symphony Space’s Selected Shorts …such memories of near-perfect performances created expectations for this one that weren’t completely met. In the translation to the usually more literal medium of the screen, there is a new awkwardness to Sam’s rapid-fire series of two-sided telephone conversations that was not present on stage. George Street Playhouse is presenting virtually a play by Becky Mode that I’ve seen on stage twice before – at its Off-Broadway debut in 1999 at the Cherry Lane, starring Mark Setlock, who is credited with creating many of the characters, and five years ago on stage at Broadway’s Lyceum Theater, starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Sam the reservations clerk. Sometimes the memories overshadow the show. I am yours do in me whatever You want to do.This new production of “Fully Committed,” starring Maulik Pancholy as a beleaguered restaurant reservations clerk and some 40 comically difficult characters with whom he interacts, is at least as enjoyable for the memories it evokes as for the actual experience. I give you permission to change me according to Your plan and purpose for my life. I will go anywhere You want me to go and do anything You want me to do. He has promised to deliver you, and He will do it.Ĭonfession: Lord, I fully commit my heart to you now. When your heart is fully committed to Him, He is bound by His Word to show Himself strong on your behalf. When you love God and your heart is fully committed, you will be able to yield completely to Him. The best decision you can ever make is to fully commit your heart to God and His plan for your life. He will never withhold any good thing from you (see Psalm 84:11). God is a good God and His plans for you are to give you a hope and a future (see Jeremiah 29:11). What is filling your mind today? Are you meditating on God and His Word, or are your thoughts on other things? When you make a decision regarding how to spend your time or your money, what influences the outcome? Is it what the Holy Spirit tells you or is it other things? ![]() Mark 4 talks about the desire for other things that can grow up around us and choke us. Something significant happens in the spiritual realm when you give 100% to God, with no reservation. He wants you to be fully committed to Him, not just 99% committed. God wants all of you, not just a part of you. The first commandment is to love Him with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength (see Mark 12:30). For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him (2 Chronicles 16:9 NIV).ĭo you need God to show Himself strong on your behalf today? He has made a promise that He will deliver you if your heart is fully committed to Him.
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