Slate – Hedge funds, those investment vehicles for institutions and the very wealthy that have enjoyed explosive growth in recent years, are breaking out into popular culture. Early this year cameHedgehogging, a tell-some memoir by veteran Wall Streeter Barton Biggs. At last week’s Hedgestock in England, hedge-fund managers tried to let their hair down in a summer-of-love-style festival, complete with a concert by the Who.
And last night, a new play about hedge funds debuted off-Broadway. And, no, it’s not Katz, or Greenwich Boys, or The Silk Pajama Game. It’s Burleigh Grime$.
The title character of the show, by Roger Kirby, with music by David Yazbek (The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), is named after a Hall of Fame baseball pitcher known for throwing legal spitballs. He is played by Mark Moses of Desperate Housewives, and he has two young acolytes, Buck and Hapâ€â€which is either an ironic riff on Biff and Happy from Death of a Salesman or a major-league coincidence.
