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February 18th, 2010 — Broadway, Entertainment, Feed Syndications, Resorts, Reviews, Travel, Wine
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BROADWAY PREMIERE OF ACCLAIMED PLAY, BY DONALD MARGULIES, DIRECTED BY LYNNE MEADOW,
STARRING LINDA LAVIN & SARAH PAULSON
The Manhattan Theatre Club Broadway premiere of COLLECTED STORIES, by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies (Time Stands Still, Dinner with Friends), directed by Lynne Meadow (The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, The Loman Family Picnic) starts rehearsals today in preparation for a Wednesday, April 28 opening night at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street). The production will start previews on Friday, April 9.
COLLECTED STORIES stars Tony Award winner Linda Lavin (The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, The New Century) and Golden Globe nominee Sarah Paulson (“Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” The Glass Menagerie on Broadway).
This acclaimed drama chronicles the relationship between two female writers – a celebrated New York author (Lavin) and her young protégé (Paulson). As their fascinating story evolves, and the line between fact and fiction blurs, the twists and turns of this complex relationship weave a play that’s as smart and witty as it is powerful.
Lavin and Meadow reunite for this Broadway premiere after working together on MTC’s hit production of The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife.
The design team for COLLECTED STORIES includes Santo Loquasto (Scenic Design), Jane Greenwood (Costume Design), Natasha Katz (Lighting Design), and Obadiah Eaves (Sound Design).
For more information on MTC, please visit www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com.
TICKETING INFORMATION FOR COLLECTED STORIES
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Please note COLLECTED STORIES is dark on Mondays:
BIOGRAPHY
DONALD MARGULIES (Playwright) received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dinner with Friends (Variety Arts Theatre (New York), Comedie des Champs-Elysees (Paris), Hampstead Theatre (London), Actors Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Repertory (Costa Mesa, CA); American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk nominee).
His many plays include Time Stands Still (Geffen Playhouse (Los Angeles), Manhattan Theatre Club/Friedman Theatre, Comedie des Champs-Elysees); Shipwrecked! An Entertainment – The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as told by himself), (South Coast Repertory, Long Wharf Theatre (New Haven), Geffen Playhouse, Primary Stages; Outer Critics Circle Award nomination); Brooklyn Boy (Manhattan Theatre Club/Biltmore Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Comedie des Champs-Elysees; American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award finalist, Outer Critics Circle nominee); Sight Unseen (Manhattan Theatre Club/Biltmore Theatre [Broadway, 2004], Manhattan Theatre Club/Orpheum Theatre [1992], South Coast Repertory, Comedie des Champs-Elysees; OBIE Award, Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner Award, Drama Desk nominee, Pulitzer Prize finalist); Collected Stories (Theatre Royal Haymarket (London), South Coast Repertory, Manhattan Theatre Club [1996], HB Studio/Lucille Lortel Theatre, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle/Ted Schmitt Awards, L.A. Ovation Award, Drama Desk nominee, Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner Award finalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Drama Desk nominee; MTC/Friedman [Broadway, 2010]); God of Vengeance (based on the Yiddish classic by Sholem Asch), ACT Theatre (Seattle), Williamstown (MA) Theatre Festival; Two Days (Long Wharf Theatre); The Model Apartment (Los Angeles Theatre Center, Primary Stages (New York), La Jolla (CA) Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre; OBIE Award, Drama-Logue Award, Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner Award finalist, Drama Desk nominee); The Loman Family Picnic (Manhattan Theatre Club, Drama Desk nominee); What’s Wrong With This Picture? (Manhattan Theatre Club, Jewish Repertory Theatre (New York), Brooks Atkinson Theatre); Broken Sleep: Three Plays (Williamstown Theatre Festival); JULY 7, 1994 (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Found A Peanut (Joseph Papp/New York Shakespeare Festival); Pitching to the Star (West Bank Café); Resting Place (Theatre for the New City); Gifted Children, Zimmer and Luna Park (Jewish Repertory Theatre).
His plays have been performed at major theatres across the United States and around the world. Theatre Communications Group has published seven volumes of his work. Dinner with Friends was made into an Emmy Award-nominated film for HBO, and Collected Stories was presented on PBS. Currently, he is adapting the novel Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides into an HBO series.
Mr. Margulies has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He was the recipient of the 2000 Sidney Kingsley Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Theatre by a playwright. In 2005 he was honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with an Award in Literature and by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture with its Award in Literary Arts. Mr. Margulies is an alumnus of New Dramatists and serves on the council of The Dramatists Guild of America. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1954, Mr. Margulies now lives with his wife, Lynn Street, a physician, and their son, Miles, in New Haven, Connecticut, where he is an adjunct professor of English and Theatre Studies at Yale University.
LYNNE MEADOW (Director) has been Artistic Director of Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) since 1972, where she has been responsible for directing and/or producing over 450 New York and world premieres. Lynne has brought MTC to the forefront of the American stage and created one of the nation’s most acclaimed not-for-profit theatres.
Plays developed at MTC under her leadership include Love! Valour! Compassion (with Nathan Lane), Putting It Together (with Julie Andrews), Sylvia (with Sarah Jessica Parker and Blythe Danner), Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Crimes of the Heart, Pretty Fire, Fuddy Meers, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Proof (with Mary Louise-Parker) and Doubt. Other New York and world premieres include The Miss Firecracker Contest (with Holly Hunter), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (with Kathy Bates), Playland (with Kevin Spacey), Other Places (with Dianne Wiest), Rabbit Hole (with Cynthia Nixon), Blackbird (with Jeff Daniels) and plays by Arthur Miller, Marsha Norman, Simon Gray, Lee Blessing, Sybille Pearson, and Israel Horowitz.
Lynne’s directing credits include the 2001 Tony Award-nominated production of The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife on Broadway (starring Linda Lavin, Michele Lee, and Tony Roberts) at MTC and in the U.S. national tour (with Valerie Harper); the Broadway production of A Small Family Business (with Brian Murray); Donald Margulies’ The Loman Family Picnic; and the Obie Award-winning Ashes by David Rudkin, as well as productions for The New York Shakespeare Festival, the Spoleto Festival and the O’Neill Theatre Center. She has twice been nominated for best director at the Drama Desk Awards: in 1996 for Leslie Ayvazian’s Nine Armenians and in 1988 for Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind with Stockard Channing.
Among Lynne’s other directing credits during her 37-year tenure at MTC are Charles Busch’s Our Leading Lady, David Greig’s The American Pilot, Neil Simon’s Rose’s Dilemma (with Mary Tyler Moore), Ron Hutchinson’s Moonlight and Magnolias, Three Sisters (with Dianne Weist, Sam Waterston, Christine Ebersole and Jeff Daniels), Golden Boy, Marsha Norman’s Last Dance, David Edgar’s The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs, Principia Scriptoriae, The Wager, Absent Friends (with Gillian Anderson and Brenda Blethyn), The Pokey, Eleemosynary, Vikings, Bits and Pieces, Blur (with Polly Draper), Biography (with Piper Laurie), Park Your Car in Harvard Yard (with Ellen Burstyn and Burgess Meredith), Captain’s Courageous (with Treat Williams), Artichoke (with Amanda Plummer), Catsplay (which transferred to the Promenade Theatre), Chez Nous, Simon Gray’s Close of Play and Sally and Marsha (with Christine Baranski and Bernadette Peters).
Lynne is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, where she served on the Board of Trustees. She attended the Yale School of Drama and was named a Herbert Brudkin Fellow. She has taught at Circle in the Square Theatre School, Stony Brook University, Yale University, Fordham University and New York University.
She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lee Reynolds Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women, the Manhattan Award from Manhattan Magazine, the Person of the Year from National Theatre Conference, the Margo Jones Award and the 2003 Mr. Abbott Award.
LINDA LAVIN (Ruth). MTC/Broadway: The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (Tony nomination). Broadway: The Sisters Rosensweig, The Diary of Anne Frank (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award), Gypsy, Broadway Bound (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Helen Hayes awards), The Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Tony nomination), Cop Out, Story Theatre, Something Different, It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman, A Family Affair, Hollywood Arms. Off-Broadway: Cakewalk, Death Defying Acts (Obie), The Comedy of Errors (Public), The Mad Show, Oh, Kay!. Regional: Finishing the Picture, Collected Stories, Doubt. Film: The Muppets Take Manhattan, See You in the Morning, I Want to Go Home, The Backup Plan (upcoming). TV: “Alice,” “Barney Miller,” “Room for Two,” “Conrad Bloom,” “The Sopranos,” “The O.C.,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” TV Films: “The $5.20 an Hour Dream,” “A Matter of Life and Death,” “A Place to Call Home,” “Lena: My 100 Children,” “Best Friends for Life,” “The Ring,” “Collected Stories,” “Another Woman’s Child,” “The Sunset Gang” (producer). TV Specials: “Flour Babies” (producer/director), “Linda in Wonderland” (2 Emmy Awards). Cabaret: Songs and Confessions of a One-Time Waitress. National appearances include Birdland, The Metropolitan Room, Wilmington Symphony, NC. She and her husband Steve Bakunas are the Creative Directors of the Red Barn Studio Theatre in Wilmington, North Carolina. www.redbarnstudiotheatre.com.
SARAH PAULSON (Lisa). Golden Globe nominated actress Sarah Paulson, was seen last winter in Lionsgate’s Christmas Day release, The Spirit, opposite Samuel L. Jackson, Eva Mendes, and Scarlett Johansson. Adapted from the legendary comic strip, The Spirit is a classic action-adventure-romance, told by genre-twister Frank Miller (creator of Sin City). In early 2009, Paulson was seen in Rob Thomas’ ABC comedy, “Cupid,” opposite Bobby Cannavale. Paulson’s Golden Globe nominated role was in Aaron Sorkin’s “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” where she starred opposite Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet, Bradley Whitford, and Steven Weber. Paulson’s major television credits also include the lead role on the drama “Leap of Faith,” “Deadwood,” “Path to War” (opposite Alec Baldwin and Donald Sutherland), “Jack and Jill,” the television movie “The Long Way Home” (opposite Jack Lemmon) and the series “American Gothic” with Gary Cole.
Her film credits include Marry Harron’s The Notorious Bettie Page, Paramount’s Down with Love (with Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor and David Hyde Pierce), What Women Want (opposite Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt), The Other Sister, directed by Gary Marshall (starring Diane Keaton and Juliette Lewis), Swimmers directed by Doug Sadler and Diggers directed by Katherine Dieckmann.
On stage, Paulson recently starred as ‘Carrie Ann’ in Alexander Dinelaris’ Still Life at the MCC Theatre. Before that Paulson played ‘Stacey’ in Mark Schultz’ The Gingerbread House at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre opposite Bobby Cannavale. In 2008 Sarah starred in the Roundabout Theatre Production of Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart directed by Kathleen Turner. She originated the role for this production at the Williamstown Theatre Festival the previous summer. She also starred opposite Alfred Molina and Annette Bening in the critically acclaimed Cherry Orchard for the Mark Taper Forum playing ‘Varya.’ She has appeared on Broadway as ‘Laura Wingfield’ in the revival of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, alongside Jessica Lange as well as Wendy Wasserstein’s Tony Award-winning, The Sisters Rosensweig at the Barrymore Theatre. Her other stage credits include the Off-Broadway production of Tracy Letts’ Killer Joe (opposite Scott Glenn and Amanda Plummer) and Horton Foote’s Talking Pictures at the Signature Theatre.
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September 27th, 2009 — Broadway, Entertainment, Feed Syndications, Resorts, Reviews, Travel, Wine
CATHERINE ZETA-JONES
ANGELA LANSBURY
TO STAR IN THE FIRST BROADWAY REVIVAL OF
STEPHEN SONDHEIM & HUGH WHEELER’S
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
DIRECTED BY TREVOR NUNN
OPENS DECEMBER 13, 2009 ON BROADWAY AT THE WALTER KERR THEATRE
PREVIEWS BEGIN NOVEMBER 24, 2009
“A perfect production. Sexy and sophisticated. Not to be missed.” – Mail On Sunday, London
“Trevor Nunn’s production is unforgettable” – The Times, London
Academy Award–winner Catherine Zeta-Jones, five-time Tony Award®–winner Angela Lansbury and Olivier Award–nominee Alexander Hanson will star in the first Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Tony Award–winning masterpiece A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, directed by Tony Award®-winner Trevor Nunn. The production begins previews on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 and opens on Sunday, December 13, 2009 at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street).
Catherine Zeta-Jones, in her Broadway debut, will play the role of Desirée Armfeldt. Angela Lansbury will play Madame Armfeldt. Alexander Hanson will play Fredrik Egerman, a role he created in the recent Trevor Nunn-directed production of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory and in the West End.
The cast also features Aaron Lazar (Les Misérables) as Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm, Erin Davie (Grey Gardens) as Countess Charlotte Malcolm, Leigh Ann Larkin (Gypsy) as Petra, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka as Henrik Egerman, and Ramona Mallory (The Fantasticks) as Anne Egerman. The cast also includes Bradley Dean, Marissa McGowan, Betsy Morgan, Karen Murphy, Jayne Paterson and Kevin David Thomas. Additional casting, including the role of Fredrika Armfeldt, will be announced at a later date.
Alexander Hanson is appearing with the support of Actors’ Equity Association. The producers gratefully acknowledge Actors’ Equity Association for its assistance to this production.
“I’m honored that Trevor Nunn and Stephen Sondheim asked me to make my Broadway debut in this beautiful production,” said Catherine Zeta-Jones. “I look forward to starting rehearsal with this extraordinary group of people and working with the incomparable Angela Lansbury, whose work I’ve long admired.”
“The circle is complete,” said Angela Lansbury. “I’m back singing the beautiful music of Stephen Sondheim, and working with a lovely young actress, Catherine Zeta-Jones!”
Based on Ingmar Bergman’s film Smiles of a Summer Night, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC is set in a weekend country house in turn of the century Sweden, bringing together surprising liaisons, long simmering passions and a taste of love’s endless possibilities. Hailed as witty and wildly romantic, the story centers on the elegant actress Desirée Armfeldt and the spider’s web of sensuality, intrigue and desire that surrounds her.
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC – featuring a score by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Hugh Wheeler – originally opened in 1973 at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre and ran for 601 performances. Produced and directed by Harold Prince, the production garnered six Tony Awards® including Best Musical and Best Original Score. The Sondheim score features one of the composer’s best-known songs, “Send in the Clowns,” as well as “Every Day a Little Death,” “The Miller’s Son” and “A Weekend in the Country.”
Trevor Nunn’s production of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC debuted to critical acclaim at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory in November 2008 and subsequently transferred to the West End where it played a successful limited engagement through July 25, 2009 at the Garrick Theatre.
The creative team for A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC includes Lynne Page (Choreography), Caroline Humphris (Musical Supervision), David Farley (Set & Costume Design), Hartley T A Kemp (Lighting Design), Dan Moses Shreier and Gareth Owen (Sound Design), Paul Huntley (Wig Design), Jason Carr (Orchestrations) and Tom Murray (Musical Direction).
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC will be produced on Broadway by Tom Viertel, Steven Baruch, Marc Routh, Richard Frankel, the Menier Chocolate Factory, Roger Berlind, David Babani, Andrew Fell and Sonia Friedman Productions.
Additional production information will be announced soon.
TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets for A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC can be purchased exclusively by American Express® Cardmembers from Wednesday, September 30th to Friday, October 16th. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Saturday, October 17th and the Walter Kerr Theatre box office (219 West 48th Street) will open on Monday, October 19th. Tickets will be available by calling Telecharge.com at (212) 239-6200, (800) 432-7250 outside the NY metro area, or online at Telecharge.com. Group sales for A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC will begin Wednesday, September 30th. For more information on group sales, contact Theatre Direct International at 212-541-8457 x 2, or outside the NY metro area at 1-800-BROADWAY x 2.
BIOGRAPHIES
CATHERINE ZETA-JONES (Desirée Armfeldt) will make her Broadway debut in A Little Night Music. Zeta-Jones created her Academy Award®-winning performance, portraying the notorious Velma Kelly, in the screen adaptation of the Broadway musical Chicago. The film, which won the Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Picture, also starred Renee Zellweger and Richard Gere. Zeta-Jones was nominated for a Golden Globe and took home the 2002 Critics’ Choice Award, the 2002 Screen Actors Guild Award and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for her critically acclaimed performance. Upcoming, she will be seen opposite Justin Bartha in The Rebound, playing a newly divorced mother who captures the eye of her neighbor, a much younger man. Zeta-Jones recently starred with Aaron Eckhart in Warner Brothers’ hit romantic comedy No Reservations, and opposite Guy Pearce in the romantic thriller Death Defying Acts. In 2005, she reprised her role as Elena de La Vega in The Legend of Zorro, the sequel to the blockbuster film The Mask of Zorro. She starred in Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s 12, and prior to that appeared opposite Tom Hanks in Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal. Zeta-Jones also starred with George Clooney in the Coen Brothers’ comedy Intolerable Cruelty. Zeta-Jones earned a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of the wife of a drug-runner in Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic. The cast of the critically praised film received a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture. She first captured international recognition in the action adventure film, The Mask of Zorro, opposite Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins. Zeta-Jones continued to captivate audiences in 1999, in Jon Amiel’s romantic-thriller Entrapment, opposite screen legend Sean Connery. She also starred with Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal and John Cusack in the ensemble comedy America’s Sweethearts. Born in Wales, Zeta-Jones began her career on the stage in London and following that was cast in the popular Yorkshire Television series, “The Darling Buds of May,” based on the novels of H.E. Bates. Zeta-Jones is married to actor Michael Douglas. They have a son, Dylan, and a daughter, Carys.
ANGELA LANSBURY (Madame Armfeldt) has enjoyed a career without precedent. Her professional life spans more than a half-century during which she flourished, first as a star of motion pictures, then as a five-time Tony Award®-winning Broadway musical star. She appeared most recently on Broadway as Madame Arcati in the 2009 revival of Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit, for which she received her fifth Tony Award®, as well as Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards; and in 2006 in Terrence McNally’s Deuce, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award®. She made her Broadway debut in 1957 starring as Bert Lahr’s wife in the French farce, Hotel Paradiso. In 1960, she came back to Broadway as Joan Plowright’s mother in the season’s most acclaimed drama, A Taste of Honey, by Shelagh Delaney. A year later, she starred on Broadway in her first musical, Anyone Can Whistle. Lansbury returned to New York in triumph in 1966 as Mame, for which she won the first of her unprecedented four Tony Awards® as Best Actress in a Musical. She received the others as the Madwoman of Chaillot in Dear World (1968), as Mama Rose in the 1974 revival of Gypsy and as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (1979). From 1984-1996 she starred as Jessica Fletcher, mystery-writing amateur sleuth, on “Murder, She Wrote,” the longest-running detective drama series in the history of television, for which she won four Golden Globe Awards. In 1994, Queen Elizabeth II named her a Commander of the British Empire, and in 2000 she received the Kennedy Center Honors. Angela and her husband Peter were married in 1949 and worked together until his death in 2003. She has three grown children and three grandchildren.
ALEXANDER HANSON (Fredrik Egerman) most recently played this role in the Menier Chocolate Factory production of A Little Night Music, which transferred to the West End’s Garrick Theatre. His other recent stage work includes Otto in the world premiere of the musical Marguerite (Theatre Royal Haymarket; Olivier Award-nominee for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical), and Captain von Trapp in The Sound Of Music (London Palladium). In previous work with Trevor Nunn he played Bassanio in The Merchant Of Venice and Diomedes in Troilus and Cressida (National Theatre), Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard (Adelphi) and Septimus Hodge in Arcadia (Theatre Royal Haymarket). Other theatre credits include: The London Cuckolds, Candide and The Villain’s Opera (NT); Copenhagen (NT tour); Talking To Terrorists and Shallow End (Royal Court); Cracked and Memory Of Water (Hampstead Theatre); Enter The Guardsman and Brel (Donmar); Tonight At 8.30 (Chichester Minerva Theatre); Things We Do For Love (Duchess); Aspects Of Love (Prince of Wales and UK tour); A Little Night Music (Chichester and Piccadilly) and he created the role of Khashoggi in We Will Rock You at the Dominion. His film and television credits include: “Party Animals,” Kidulthood, “Auf Wiedersehen Pet,” “The Fugitives,” “The Last Detective,” “Murder City,” The Merchant of Venice, “The Escort,” “Beech Is Back,” “Heartbeat,” “Six Characters In Search Of An Author,” “Unfinished Business” and “The Bill.” Radio includes: Caravan of Desire, Oxygen, Amy’s View, Cabaret and Gigi.
AARON LAZAR (Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm). Broadway: Impressionism; Les Misérables revival (Drama Desk Nomination); The Light in the Piazza; A Tale of Two Cities; Oklahoma!; The Phantom of the Opera. He also recently in starred in South Pacific at the Hollywood Bowl opposite Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell. Film/TV: The Notorious Bettie Page, USA’s upcoming series “White Collar,” “Ugly Betty,” “New Amsterdam,” The Light in the Piazza (Live from Lincoln Center); special guest “The Today Show.” Guest artist: Marvin Hamlisch and the National Symphony Orchestra; Keith Lockhart and The Boston Pops; NY Pops at Carnegie Hall. www.AaronLazar.com
ERIN DAVIE (Countess Charlotte Malcolm). Broadway: Niki Harris in Curtains, Young Little Edie in Grey Gardens (Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut). Off-Broadway: The Glorious Ones, LCT; Infertility (the musical that’s hard to conceive). Encores! Applause (Eve Harrington). National Tours: Swing!, The Music of Andrew Webber. Some Regional: Carousel (Julie), Jekyll & Hyde (Emma), The Student Prince (Princess).
LEIGH ANN LARKIN (Petra) is so honored to be a part of this magnificent piece of theater. Broadway: Gypsy starring Patti LuPone (Dainty June). National Tours: Disney’s On The Record. Regional: The Kennedy Center’s Ragtime (Evelyn Nesbit), New York City Center Gypsy starring Patti LuPone (Dainty June), Williamstown Theater Festival, Pittsburgh CLO, Pittsburgh Musical Theater, New Theater Restaurant, Macau Music Festival, The York Theater. Film/TV: “Flight of the Conchords,” “Lipstick Jungle,” “All My Children,” “The Guiding Light,” “The White Cure,” CBS “Pre-Tony Special.” Recordings: “Gypsy” with Patti LuPone, Disney’s “On The Record.” BFA: Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. www.LeighAnnLarkin.com
HUNTER RYAN HERDLICKA (Henrik Egerman). Broadway debut. Hunter is a native of Dallas, Texas and a 2009 graduate of Carnegie Mellon. Regional credits: Fiddler on the Roof (Motel) & Othello with the Utah Shakespearean Festival; The Full Monty (Malcolm), High School Musical (Ryan), My Fair Lady (Freddy) and The Wedding Singer (George) with West Virginia Public Theatre. Readings/workshops: Bubble Boy: The Musical (Bubble Boy) and Mrs. Sharp with the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera/ASCAP & The Greenwood Tree (Poet) for NYMF 2009. Proud member of Actors’ Equity.
RAMONA MALLORY (Anne Egerman). Broadway Debut. Off-Broadway: The Fantasticks (Luisa). National Tour: Captain Louie (Amy). Regional: Amadeus (Constanze); The Crucible (Abigail); Oklahoma! (Laurey); Yours, Anne (Anne Frank); Cats (Victoria); Camelot (Guenevere), Grease (Rizzo), The Sound of Music (Liesel).
STEPHEN SONDHEIM (Music & Lyrics) one of the most influential and accomplished composer/lyricists in Broadway history, was born in New York City. As a teenager he met Oscar Hammerstein II, who became Sondheim’s mentor. Sondheim graduated from Williams College, where he received the Hutchison Prize for Music Composition. After graduation he studied music theory and composition with Milton Babbitt. He worked for a short time in the 1950’s as a writer for the television show “Topper.” His first professional musical theatre job was as the songwriter for Saturday Night, which had its belated New York premiere in 1999. He wrote the music and lyrics for A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Anyone Can Whistle, Company, Follies, The Frogs, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Sunday In The Park With George, Merrily We Roll Along, Into The Woods, Assassins, Passion and Road Show as well as lyrics for West Side Story, Gypsy, Do I Hear A Waltz? and additional lyrics for Candide. Anthologies of his work include Side By Side by Sondheim, Marry Me A Little, You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow and Putting It Together. For films and television, he composed the scores of Stavisky and Reds, songs for Dick Tracy and Evening Primrose and co-authored the film The Last of Sheila. He is on the Council of the Dramatists Guild, the national association of playwrights, composers and lyricists, having served as its president from 1973 to 1981, and in 1983 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1990 he was appointed the first Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University. He was also a recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993.
HUGH WHEELER (Book) won Tony Awards® for Candide, A Little Night Music and Sweeny Todd. He is the author of the plays Big Fish, Little Fish; Look, We’ve Come Through; We Have Always Lived in the Castle; and additional material for Pacific Overtures. His screenplays include Travels With My Aunt, Something for Everyone, A Little Night Music and Nijinsky. He also wrote 30 mysteries under the pseudonyms Patrick Quentin and Q. Patrick. He has written such operas as Kurt Weill’s Silverlake, Mozart’s Impressario and the opera versions of Candide and Sweeney Todd.
TREVOR NUNN (Director). From 1968 to 1986, Nunn was the longest serving Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the RSC. During that time, he directed most of the Shakespeare canon, as well as Nicholas Nickleby (Five Tony Awards®) and Les Misérables, the longest running musical in the world. He recently returned to the RSC to direct King Lear and The Seagull. From 1997 to 2003, he was Director of the National Theatre, where his twenty-one productions included award-winning revivals of Troilus and Cressida, The Merchant of Venice, Summerfolk and The Cherry Orchard, as well as Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady and Anything Goes. He has directed the world premieres of Arcadia, Every Good Boy, The Coast of Utopia and Rock ‘n’ Roll by Tom Stoppard, and of Cats, Starlight Express, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard and The Woman in White by Andrew Lloyd Webber. More recent theatre work includes: Timon of Athens and Skellig (Young Vic), Hamlet and Richard II (Old Vic), The Lady From The Sea (Almeida), The Royal Hunt Of The Sun (National Theatre) and Scenes From A Marriage (Coventry). His opera productions include: Idomeneo, Porgy and Bess, Cosi Fan Tutte and Peter Grimes (Glyndebourne) and Katya Kabanova and Sophie’s Choice (Royal Opera House). Work for television includes “Antony and Cleopatra,” “The Comedy of Errors,” “Macbeth,” “Three Sisters,” “Othello” and “King Lear” and on film, Hedda, Lady Jane and Twelfth Night.
THE VIERTEL, BARUCH, ROUTH, FRANKEL GROUP (Producer) have produced and general managed a wide range of plays and musicals on and off Broadway, in London and on tour for 24 years. Currently: Burn The Floor, Young Frankenstein Tour, Hairspray (London) and Stomp (off-Broadway and on Tour). Previously: The Norman Conquests, Gypsy, Young Frankenstein, The Producers, Sweeney Todd, Company, Little Shop of Horrors, The Weir, The Sound of Music, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Angels in America, Oleanna, Love Letters, Driving Miss Daisy, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Penn & Teller, many others. Upcoming: Leap of Faith with music by Alan Menken. Awarded 36 Tonys, 47 Drama Desk Awards, 38 Outer Critics Awards, four Grammys, eight Olivier Awards and two Pulitzer Prizes. They have the rare distinction of having won Tony Awards in all four “Best” categories – play, musical, play revival and musical revival.
MENIER CHOCOLATE FACTORY (Producer). Having celebrated its 5th birthday in March 2009, the Menier Chocolate Factory is a full time producing theatre. Under the Artistic Direction of David Babani, it has transferred seven productions to the West End, with transfers of its productions of La Cage aux Folles and A Little Night Music planned for Broadway in the next six months, to add to the success of Sunday in the Park with George in 2008. This unique venue, built in 1870 to house a chocolate factory, now comprises an atmospheric restaurant serving pre and post show dinner, bar, rehearsal rooms and theatre. Having maintained the original exposed beams, brick interior and unusual cast iron columns, this is a stimulating environment to experience a high quality theatrical experience.
ROGER BERLIND (Producer) has been producing for over 30 years. Recent productions include Copenhagen; Kiss Me, Kate; Proof; Medea; Anna in the Tropics; Caroline, or Change; Wonderful Town; Doubt; Well; The History Boys; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Faith Healer; The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial; The Vertical Hour; Deuce; The Year of Magical Thinking; Curtains; Rock ’n’ Roll, Is He Dead?, Gypsy, Equus, 13 and the upcoming Ragtime.
DAVID BABANI (Producer) is Artistic Director of one of London’s most exciting venues, the Menier Chocolate Factory. Currently celebrating its 5th anniversary, productions originated at the Chocolate Factory have received seven Olivier Awards, four Evening Standard awards and nine Tony nominations. Seven of its productions have transferred to the West End and its critically acclaimed production of Sunday in the Park with George played Broadway in 2008. David has also produced Forbidden Broadway (Albery Theatre) and The Donkey Show (Hanover Grand). During his time as Artistic Director of the Jermyn Street Theatre, David produced Simply Barbra, which broke all box office records and transferred to the Playhouse Theatre; and the critically acclaimed UK premiere of Closer Than Ever by Maltby and Shire. In Australia he produced the world premiere of Symphonic Forbidden Broadway and international concerts with Jason Robert Brown, Andrew Lippa and Maltby and Shirem, all at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. David also produced the international hit comedy The English American by Alison Larkin (Soho Theatre), Richard III (Pleasance London), Boom Chicago (Jermyn Street, Soho, Royal Festival Hall) and a hugely successful production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins (New End).
ANDREW FELL LTD. (Producer) has produced or co-produced: A Little Night Music (Garrick); Zorro (Garrick), Madame Melville (Vaudeville); Gross Indecency – The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Gielgud Theatre); Soul Train (Victoria Palace/tour); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Playhouse); Marc Salem’s Mind Games (Edinburgh Festival; Hampstead, Tricycle, Shaw and New Ambassadors Theatres). They have general managed: Porgy and Bess (Savoy, dir. Trevor Nunn); The Producers (Drury Lane/Tour, Olivier: Best Musical); Jerry Springer The Opera (UK tour); Romeo & Juliet The Musical (Piccadilly); Taboo (Venue); The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Garrick, Olivier: Best New Comedy); Antarctica (Savoy); the Tony Award®–winning play Side Man (Apollo); Perfect Days (Vaudeville); Show Boat (Prince Edward, dir. Hal Prince).
SONIA FRIEDMAN PRODUCTIONS LTD. (Producer) has initiated and produced more than 90 significant productions since 1991 in the West End and on Broadway. Sonia founded SFP, a subsidiary of the Ambassador Theatre Group, in 2002. Recent West End and Broadway productions include The Norman Conquests, The Seagull, Arcadia, Boeing-Boeing, La Cage aux Folles, Rock ’n’ Roll, Faith Healer, Othello, Prick Up Your Ears, The Mountaintop, A View From the Bridge, Dancing at Lughnasa, No Man’s Land, Endgame, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg and Noises Off. Upcoming: Jerusalem (January 2010). SFP is currently actively developing over 25 major new productions. In 1993, Sonia co-founded Out of Joint Theatre Company, one of Britain’s leading new writing companies.
September 27th, 2009 — Broadway, Entertainment, Feed Syndications, Resorts, Reviews, Travel, Wine
INVITES AUDIENCES TO JOIN THE PARTY
AND EXPERIENCE “SHREKtoberfest”
Celebrate Shrek’s one-year anniversary on Broadway
with one of the most exciting OGRE-SIZED events in town!
SHREK THE MUSICAL® is excited to announce “SHREKtoberfest,” a month-long festival of “OGRE-SIZED” events leading up to and celebrating the production’s one year anniversary on Broadway on November 8th. Beginning Tuesday, October 6th, 40 performances of SHREK THE MUSICAL® will have tickets that can be purchased for 40% off. In addition, through the first week of November, there will be exciting opportunities for talkbacks with cast members, free giveaways, and special offers on NYC attractions and dining.
After each Wednesday matinee through November 4th,
SHREK THE MUSICAL® will offer talk backs with cast members from the show. Don’t miss an opportunity to ask your favorite SHREK star the questions you’ve always wanted to have answered. At every performance, don’t miss your chance to win free prizes at the theatre.
Below is the schedule for talk backs:
The week of October 6th is “Lord Farquaad Week”
Lord Farquaad himself, Christopher Sieber, will give a talk back after the Wednesday, October 7th matinee
The week of October 13th is “Fiona Week”
Tony-winner Sutton Foster, who plays Princess Fiona, will give a talk back after the Wednesday, October 14th matinee.
The week of October 20th is “Fairytale Creature Week”
Meet some of the cast member who play Fairytale creatures and have your questions answered after the Wednesday, October 21st matinee.
The week of October 27th is “Donkey Week”
Shrek’s Donkey, Daniel Breaker, will give a talk back after the Wednesday, October 28th matinee.
The week of November 3rd is “Shrek Week”
Ben Crawford, who will take on the title role on November 10th, will give a talk back after the Wednesday, November 4th matinee.
Participating partners are Planet Hollywood, Mars 2112, Madame Tussauds, Circle Line Sightseeing, Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, Brasserie Cognac, and Crumbs Bake Shop.
To learn more and watch behind-the-scenes videos, visit www.SHREKtoberfest.com.
SHREK THE MUSICAL® stars Tony Award® nominee Brian d’Arcy James as Shrek, Tony Award® winner Sutton Foster as Princess Fiona, Tony Award® nominee Christopher Sieber as Lord Farquaad, Tony Award® nominee Daniel Breaker as Donkey and Robb Sapp as Pinocchio.
The cast also features Cameron Adams, Tessa Albertson, R?zi Baker, Haven Burton, Bobby Daye, Ryan Duncan, Sarah Jane Everman, Maya Goldman, Justin Greer, Colleen Hawks, Lisa Ho, Chris Hoch, Marty Lawson, Jacob Ming-Trent, Carolyn Ockert-Haythe, Frankie Paparone, Denny Paschall, Keven Quillon, Heather Jane Rolff, Jennifer Simard, Rachel Stern, Dennis Stowe, David F.M. Vaughn, Maia Nkenge Wilson, Ryan Worsing, Kirsten Wyatt.
SHREK THE MUSICAL® features a book and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize® winner, David Lindsay-Abaire, music by Olivier Award-winner Jeanine Tesori, and is directed by Tony Award® nominee Jason Moore. The production opened at the Broadway Theatre on Sunday, December 14. SHREK THE MUSICAL® will launch a national tour at Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre for a limited engagement, July 13 – September 5, 2010.
SHREK THE MUSICAL® is an entirely new musical based on the story and characters from William Steig’s book Shrek!, as well as the DreamWorks Animation film Shrek, the first chapter of the Shrek movie series. The musical is produced by DreamWorks Theatricals (Bill Damaschke, President) and Neal Street Productions, Ltd (principals Sam Mendes and Caro Newling).
SHREK THE MUSICAL® tells the story of a swamp-dwelling ogre who goes on a life-changing adventure to reclaim the deed to his land. Joined by a wise-cracking donkey, this unlikely hero fights a fearsome dragon, rescues a feisty princess and learns that real friendship and true love aren’t only found in fairy tales.
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For more information, visit www.shrekthemusical.com
TICKET INFORMATION:
Tickets for SHREK THE MUSICAL® are available by calling Telecharge.com at (212) 239-6200, (800) 432-7250 outside the NY metro area, online at Telecharge.com, or in person at The Broadway Theatre box office (1681 Broadway @ 53rd St). Group sales are available by contacting Telecharge Group Sales at 212-239-6262, or 800-432-7780.
Tickets on Tuesdays through Thursdays range in price from $41.50 to $121.50, and tickets on Fridays through Sundays range in price from $51.50 to $126.50. All tickets include a $1.50 facility fee.
September 14th, 2009 — Broadway, Entertainment, Feed Syndications, Resorts, Reviews, Travel, Wine
BEST MUSICAL REVIVAL
BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL – DOUGLAS HODGE
WINNER! 2009 CRITICS’ CIRCLE AWARDS – BEST MUSICAL
LONDON’S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED
MENIER CHOCOLATE FACTORY PRODUCTION OF
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
STARRING
DOUGLAS HODGE
OPENS APRIL 18, 2010 ON BROADWAY AT THE LONGACRE THEATRE
PREVIEWS BEGIN APRIL 6, 2010
Producers Sonia Friedman, David Babani for the Menier Chocolate Factory, Fran and Barry Weissler and Robert Bartner / Norman Tulchin will bring London’s critically acclaimed Menier Chocolate Factory production of the Tony Award-winning musical comedy LA CAGE AUX FOLLES to Broadway, opening on April 18, 2010 at the Longacre Theatre (220 West 48th Street). Previews begin April 6, 2010.
This freshly reconceived production opened to unanimous rave reviews and won the 2009 Olivier Awards for Best Musical Revival and Best Actor in a Musical for star Douglas Hodge, who will make his Broadway debut as Albin.
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES features music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, book by Harvey Fierstein, based on the play, La Cage aux Folles, by Jean Poiret. The production is choreographed by Lynne Page and directed by Terry Johnson.
Douglas Hodge is appearing with the permission of Actors’ Equity Association. The producers gratefully acknowledge Actors’ Equity Association for its assistance to this production.
The original production of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES was one of Broadway’s biggest hits of the 1980s. It opened August 21, 1983 at the Palace Theatre, where it played for over four years and 1,761 performances. The show won six Tony Awards in 1984, including Best Musical, Best Score (Jerry Herman) and Best Book (Harvey Fierstein).
The Menier Chocolate Factory production of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES played from November 23, 2007 to March 8, 2008, earning across the board raves and moving to the West End’s Playhouse Theatre on October 30, 2008, where it is still selling out and delighting audiences.
“A glorious night of showbiz razzle dazzle!” exclaimed Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph. “At last a musical to sweep away those credit-crunch blues. This joyous show deserves every hurrah and standing ovation it receives.” “Suddenly, the West End sparkles,” cheered Sam Marlowe, The Times. “Sew on a sequin, slip into some heels and go.”
Douglas Hodge earned the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Albin, who with his partner Georges owns the eponymous St. Tropez nightclub where he stars as his glamorous drag persona, Zaza. “It is impossible to praise Hodge’s wonderfully, deeply touching performance too highly. This is one of those thrilling, high-definition performances that will linger long in the memory of all who see it,” wrote Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph. “Douglas Hodge is simply wonderful in a spangled frock and a hilarious and adorable blend of burliness and ineffable sweetness,” hailed Kate Bassett, Independent on Sunday. “His softly smiling relationship with the audience is enchanting.”
Hodge will make his Broadway debut with LA CAGE AUX FOLLES. His theatre credits also include Guys and Dolls, Titus Andronicus, Dumb Show (Olivier nomination). His film work includes Vanity Fair, Scenes of a Sexual Nature and the upcoming The Descent 2. His television work has included roles in “Mansfield Park,” “Middlemarch,” “Men of The Month,” “True Love,” “Red Cap,” “It Could Be You,” “The Way We Live Now” and “Spooks”.
Terry Johnson is a multi-award winning playwright and director and is Literary Associate at the Royal Court Theatre. He has been honored with nine major British Theatre awards, including two Olivier Awards and two Evening Standard Theatre Awards. In recent years, he has had 10 productions running in London’s West End: Rain Man, Whipping It Up, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Hitchcock Blonde, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, The Graduate, Dead Funny, Hysteria, Elton John’s Glasses and The Memory of Water. He has worked with Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, directing John Malkovich in The Libertine (nominated for five Jeff Awards, including Best Production) and Lost Land, both plays by Stephen Jeffries. He has written and directed for international television, most recently “The Man Who Lost His Head” for ITV and “Not Only But Always” for Channel Four, which won five International Award nominations, Best Film at Banff, and a BAFTA for Rhys Ifans. He wrote and directed “‘Cor Blimey!” for ITV.
Choreographer Lynne Page’s credits include: Never So Good (National Theatre), A Little Night Music and Little Shop of Horrors (Menier Chocolate Factory and West End), Bad Girls the Musical (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Assassins (Crucible, Sheffield), There Came a Gypsy Riding and The Late Henry Moss (Almeida), Fabulation (Tricycle Theatre), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (RSC), Bat Boy – the Musical (West End), Blonde Bombshells of 1943 (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Tell Me on a Sunday (West End), The Merchant of Venice (National Theatre), Meat (Theatre Royal, Plymouth) and Jesus Christ Superstar (European tour). Film: Hippie Hippie Shake (Working Title), Fred Claus (Warner Brothers). TV: “Phoo Action,” “Billy Goat,” “Brazen Hussies,” “The History of Tom Jones” (BBC), “The Last Detective” (ITV), “That’s So Graham Norton” (Channel Four).
The production features set design by Tim Shortall, costume design by Matthew Wright and lighting design by Nick Richings. Orchestrations are by Jason Carr. Wig and makeup design is by Richard Mawbey.
