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She is a bundle of energy, with an expressive voice. Her nonverbal responses while being discussed by her father s wealthy employers, Maude (Robyn Wiley) and Linus Sr. (Tom Reilly), are a joy watch. A RVP newcomer, Reilly steals many scenes with his perfect depiction of pompous business tycoon Linus Sr.Besides being a love story, Sabrina Fair is social commentary on the rich and those they employ, as well as the emerging equalization of male-female relationships. The story takes place in 1952 at the estate of the Larrabee family on the exclusive North Shore of Long Island, about an hour from New York City.Sabrina is the daughter of the loyal Larabee chauffeur, Tom Fairchild (John Anthony Nolan), whom the Larrabees, true to class distinctions, address only as Fairchild. Sabrina has just returned after five years in Paris, where she has blossomed into an independent woman of beauty, charm, sophistication and great enthusiasm for life. Her return sets up a chain of events that involve all of the Larabees. There is ostentatious Linus Sr. ( It s a shame not to own the things we can afford ) and his oldest son, Linus Jr., a cynical workaholic obsessed with power and wealth. Recently divorced younger brother David (Stephen Gustavson) is a true romantic but is controlled by his mother, Maude. Aunt Julie (Barbara Van Dermeer), a successful magazine editor recuperating from a surgical procedure, enjoys being on the estate, where there are more servants than people

Noth's cool authority reveals no trace of the actor's absence from New York stages for six years as he channels relaxed humor to warm the steely edges of a tough pragmatist. Whitlock is smooth as silk, laying a trap that will serve him politically whichever way Stephen responds and refusing to be chastened for his methods: 'I've seen way too many Democrats bite the dust because they wouldn't get down in the mud with the elephants,' Whitlock's Tom says.
Much of the play's suspense hinges on the question of who leaked word of Stephen's meeting with Tom to a pushy New York Times reporter (Kate Blumberg). Among the possible suspects, Willimon throws in Molly (Olivia Thirlby), a bright young intern with the Morris campaign who sleeps with Stephen; and fresh-faced Ben (Dan Bittner), the seemingly benign deputy press secretary eyed by Stephen as an ambitious threat.
At the center of all this, Gallagher bounces from brash overconfidence to cold-sweat discomfort and, finally, to desperate bids for self-preservation and revenge. It's no stretch to believe this wunderkind, 'the best media mind in the country,' can charm the vulture-like press even while playing them. And it's fun to watch the wheels of his strategist's mind turning even after defeat as he weighs the political usefulness of a waiter's hard-luck story (Otto Sanchez, doubling as a Los Angeles Times reporter).
The title refers to the D.C. Metro station where jaded campaign vets trudge off every morning to political consulting jobs

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