
The play follows a conversation between two friends who are garbageman, one of whom (Troy) is an ex-baseball player who confronts his boss about a company policy that prohibits black men from driving garbage trucks. Between this news and Abigail Breslin in The Miracle Worker, Broadway producers seem to be doing their best to keep the star power (and therefore, in theory, the revenue) at a maximum. Denzel last appeared on Broadway as Brutus in a critically panned, commercially successful production of Julius Caesar in 2005.