NEW YORK — There is a certain existential deliciousness in Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, the two stars of the existential cinematic masterpiece known as “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure,” appearing on Broadway, some 36 years later, across from each other in the motherlode of absurdism, “Waiting for Godot.” As Samuel Beckett’s Estragon famously observes, “We always find something to give us the impression we exist.”

The two works have a certain commonality: Samuel Beckett could have coined “Strange things are afoot at the Circle K,” had the time and place of his birth been different. “Be excellent to each other” perhaps would have offended him with its sentimentality, but Beckett would have admired “All we all are is dust in the wind, dude” for both its accuracy and its colloquial concisi

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