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Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane lead an all-star cast featuring F. Murray Abraham, Stockard Channing, Megan Mullally and Micah Stock in the Broadway comedy about the comedy of Broadway: It’s Only a Play. Written by four-time Tony® winner Terrence McNally and directed by three-time Tony® winner Jack O’Brien, this is a celebration of theatre at its best – and theatre people behaving their not-so-best.
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It’s opening night of Peter Austin’s (Matthew Broderick) new play as he anxiously awaits to see if his show is a hit. With his career on the line, he shares his big First Night with his best friend, a television star (Nathan Lane), his fledgling producer (Megan Mullally), his erratic leading lady (Stockard Channing), his wunderkind director, an infamous drama critic (F. Murray Abraham) and a fresh-off-the-bus coat check attendant (Micah Stock in his Broadway debut).
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GERALD SCHOENFELD THEATRE 236 WEST 45TH STREET
Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally is an American playwright who has received four Tony Awards, an Emmy Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.Many of McNally’s plays deal with gay themes, and he believes that theatre has made important contributions to the present day acceptance of gay people as full and equal members of society. Although he laughs off the existence of a “Gay Mafia” he says, “… fortunately, there are a lot of writers, like myself, who are slowly changing people’s minds by changing their hearts first.”
Nathan Lane
Nathan Lane is a two-time Tony Award-winning American actor. He is best known for his roles as Mendy in The Lisbon Traviata, Albert in The Birdcage, Max Bialystock in the musical The Producers, Ernie Smuntz in MouseHunt, Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and his voice work in The Lion King and Stuart Little. In 2006 he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2008 he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
Matthew Broderick
Matthew Broderick is an American film, stage and voice actor who, among other roles, played the title character in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, voiced Simba in The Lion King, and portrayed Leo Bloom in the Hollywood and Broadway productions of The Producers. He has won two Tony Awards, one in 1983 for his featured role in the play Brighton Beach Memoirs and one in 1995 for his leading role in the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.[1] He was also nominated for the Tony Award, Best Actor in a Musical, for The Producers but lost to his co-star Nathan Lane. As of 2013[update], Broderick is the youngest winner of the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.
F. Murray Abraham
F . Murray Abraham is an American actor. He became widely known during the 1980s after winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus (1984). He has appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in films such as All the President’s Men (1976), Scarface (1983), The Name of the Rose (1986), Finding Forrester (2000), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). He is also known for his television and theatre work and is now a regular cast member on the award-winning TV series Homeland.
Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing is a three-time Emmy and one-time Tony Award winning American stage, film and television actress.She is known for her portrayal of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing; for playing Betty Rizzo in the film Grease; and for her role as Ouisa Kittredge in the play Six Degrees of Separation and its later film version. Channing was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress three times in the 1990s: in 1991, for Six Degrees of Separation; in 1992, for Four Baboons Adoring the Sun; and in 1999, for The Lion in Winter.
Megan Mullally
Megan Mullally is an American actress and singer. After working in theatre in Chicago, Mullally moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and began to appear in supporting roles in film and television productions. She made her Broadway debut in Grease in 1994 and she has since appeared in several Broadway musicals. From 1998 until 2006, she played Karen Walker on the TV sitcom Will & Grace. Mullally made her Broadway debut as Marty in the 1994 revival of Grease, and subsequently appeared as Rosemary in the hit 1995 revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying opposite Matthew Broderick. In 2007, Mullally starred as Elizabeth in Mel Brooks’ original Broadway musical, Young Frankenstein. She can be heard on the cast albums of all three productions.
Micah Stock
Micah Stock is an actor, known for King Kelly (2012), Deception (2013) and Pan Am (2011). East Colfax (Rising Phoenix), Cheaters , A Thought In Three Parts with FRANK and workshops with New Dramatists, Rattlestick, Sundance, Clubbed Thumb and The LARK.Regional: World Premiere of Greg Kotis’ Michael von Siebenburg… (Humana Festival, dir. Kip Fagan), Schmoozy Togetherness (Williamstown, dir. Johanna McKeon). Film: “King Kelly” (SXSW Official Selection). TV: “Pan Am”, “Law & Order: SVU”, and a recurring role on NBC’s “Deception”. Education: BFA, SUNY Purchase Acting Conservatory.
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