As a struggling actor who earns a living taking reservations for one of Manhattan’s high-end food temples — once known as restaurants —

Joseph Vitti (the sole performer in Becky Mode’s “Fully Committed”) is a comic dynamo with seemingly endless energy. Bounding around the stage, he jousts with not one or two but three different phones, nearly sweating through his shirt as he gives voice to more than 40 characters, among them the harried but even-tempered central character, Sam; an imperious French maître d’; a patronizing bully of a chef; a chipper assistant to Gwyneth Paltrow; a socialite with a manner even more imposing than her name; and a lively menagerie of other New York types. 

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“Fully committed” is the term the diva-like chef insists the staff use instead of the more familiar “completely booked.” It also can describe the fully committed performance of Joseph Vitti.

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