PAST PERFORMANCES
The 2005 - 2006 Season
STUDIO 54
November 11, 2005 - January 29, 2006
WINNER! BEST ACTOR IN A PLAY - GABRIEL BYRNE
2006 OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
"A HAUNTING WORK OF ART!" - Elysa Gardner, USA Today
"GABRIEL BYRNE is MAGNIFICENT!" – Clive Barnes, New York Post
"GLORIOUS!" – Ben Brantley, The New York Times
"MAJESTIC and FASCINATING!" – Linda Winer, Newsday
"ASTONISHING and SPLENDID!" – Howard Kissel, Daily News
"COMMANDING!" – Robert Feldberg, The Record
Gabriel Byrne
in
by Eugene O'Neill
Directed by Doug Hughes
Perhaps the greatest American playwright of all, Eugene O'Neill won the Pulitzer Prize a record four times and is the only American dramatist ever awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His dramatic masterpiece A Touch of the Poet makes one of Broadway's most anticipated returns. Gabriel Byrne heads a stellar cast in this emotionally gripping, passionately romantic, and surprisingly funny portrait of a unique immigrant family.
Gabriel Byrne (Cornelius Melody) began his acting career with the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and subsequently joined the Royal Court and the National Theatre in London. He has starred in 35 films for some of cinemas most creative directors including Wim Wenders, David Cronenberg, Jim Jarmusch, the Coen brothers, John Boorman, Michael Mann, Ken Russell and Ken Loach. Mr. Byrne last appeared on Broadway in Eugene O'Neill's Tony® Award-winning Broadway play A Moon for the Misbegotten. He received a Best Actor Tony® nomination for his portrayal of "James Tyrone, Jr."
The cast also includes Dearbhla Molloy (Nora Melody), Emily Bergl (Sara Melody), John Horton (Nicholas Gadsby), Byron Jennings (Jamie Cregan), Kathryn Meisle (Deborah), Randall Newsome (Paddy O'Dowd), Ciaran O'Reilly (Dan Roche) and Daniel Stewart Sherman (Mickey Maloy).
Doug Hughes returns to the Roundabout Theatre Company where he directed Jon Robin Baitz's The Paris Letter and Stephen Belber's McReele, both at the Laura Pels Theatre. He will also direct Roundabout's New York premiere of Tony Award® winner Richard Greenberg's new comedy A Naked Girl on the Appian Way. He earned the 2005 Tony®, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards for Best Direction of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt. He also earned the 2004 Tony®, Outer Critics Circle & Lucille Lortel nominations for his direction of Bryony Lavery's Frozen.
Lead support provided by our Play Production Fund partners:
Steven and Liz Goldstone, The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, Mary and David Solomon.
March 24 - June 25, 2006
WINNER! BEST FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL - JIM DALE
2006 DRAMA DESK AWARD • 2006 OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
“THREEPENNY TRIUMPHS! SUPERB DIRECTION by SCOTT ELLIOTT!”
 “ALAN CUMMING EXUDES DANGER and PERVERSITY!”
“CYNDI LAUPER GIVES a HAUNTING PERFORMANCE!” - Robert Feldberg, The Record
“JIM DALE GIVES one of THE PERFORMANCES of the SEASON!” - Clive Barnes, New York Post
“ANA GASTEYER HAS a DYNAMITE VOICE!” - Linda Winer, Newsday
“NELLIE McKAY IS DESTINED for MUSICAL-COMEDY STARDOM!” - Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal
Alan Cumming
Jim Dale Ana Gasteyer
Cyndi Lauper Nellie McKay in
by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
New Translation by Wallace Shawn
Directed by Scott Elliott
The Threepenny Opera serves up a deliciously dark satire of “respectable” society, with dashing thieves, saucy prostitutes, and lingering melodies. Based on Elizabeth Hauptmann's German translation of John Gay's eighteenth-century The Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera thrusts the audience into the seedy underworld of Mack the Knife, a dapper criminal and his wry love affair with Polly Peachum.
The Threepenny Opera featured Alan Cumming (Cabaret) as MacHeath, Jim Dale (Joe Egg) as Mr. Peachum, Ana Gasteyer ("Saturday Night Live") as Mrs. Peachum, Grammy Award-winning artist Cyndi Lauper as Jenny and critically-acclaimed singer Nellie McKay as Polly. The production featured a new translation by playwright Wallace Shawn (Aunt Dan and Lemon), and was directed by Scott Elliot (The Women).
The Threepenny Opera cast also featured Christopher Innvar (Victor/Victoria) as Tiger Brown, Carlos Leon (Aunt Dan and Lemon) as Filtch, and Brian Charles Rooney (The Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde) as Lucy.
The full cast also included Adam Alexi-Malle, Terry Burrell, Brian Butterick, David Cale, Romain Frugé, John Herrera, Nehal Joshi, Christopher Kenney, Maureen Moore, Brooke Sunny Moriber, Deborah Lew, Valisia Lekae Little, Kevin Rennard and Lucas Steele.
Lead support provided by our Musical Theatre Fund partners;
The Kaplen Foundation, John and Gilda McGarry, Tom and Diane Tuft.
Major support for this production provided by The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, the
National Endowment for the Arts, and the Eleanor Naylor Dana Charitable Trust.
AMERICAN AIRLINES THEATRE
September 13 - December 4, 2005
“OUTRAGEOUSLY ENTERTAINING! RICHARD GREENBERG MAY BE
THE BEST COMIC PLAYWRIGHT ALIVE!” - Jeremy McCarter, NEW YORK MAGAZINE
“JILL CLAYBURGH makes us wonder how we did without her all these years!
RICHARD THOMAS is her perfect match!
BEAUTIFULLY ACTED AND STAGED!” - Clive Barnes, NEW YORK POST
“A FIRST-RATE PRODUCTION! RICHARD GREENBERG is one of the funniest writers around!”
- Roma Torre, NY1
“A farcical comedy of manners that provides a steady stream of laughs along the way.
Ever skillful direction from Doug Hughes.” - Frank Scheck, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Jill Clayburgh Richard Thomas
in
by Richard Greenberg
Directed by Doug Hughes
Richard Greenberg returned to Broadway with one of his funniest, most imaginative plays yet. Bess is a successful cookbook author and her husband Jeffrey is a distracted genius whose lives are upended when their two children return from a year of European travel and reveal surprising news that stretches the family beyond their breaking point.
Jill Clayburgh (Bess Lapin) has been nominated for two Academy Awards, four Golden Globes, and an Emmy Award for roles in An Unmarried Woman, Starting Over, First Monday in October, La Luna, and "Hustling". On Broadway, she appeared in a revival of Noel Coward's Design for Living, the original production of Tom Stoppard's Jumpers, and the Tony Award-winning musicals Pippin and The Rothschilds.
Richard Thomas (Jeffrey Lapin) began his Broadway career in 1958 in Sunrise at Campobello. His other New York appearances include As You Like It (Delacorte), Democracy, Fifth of July, The Seagull, The Front Page, Tiny Alice, The Playroom and Terrence McNally's The Stendhal Syndrome. He has appeared in many films; and starred in more than 40 movies for television. His series include "It's a Miracle," "Just Cause" and "The Waltons," for which he won the Emmy in 1972.
The cast also included Matthew Morrison (The Light in the Piazza) as Thad, Susan Kelechi Watson (The Story) as Juliet, James Yaegashi (Take Me Out) as Bill, Leslie Ayvazian (Lost In Yonkers) as Elaine and Ann Guilbert (The Billy Barnes Revue) as Sadie.
January 19 - June 17, 2006
2006 TONY AWARD® WINNER!
BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
WINNER! BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
KATHLEEN MARSHALL
2006 TONY AWARD® • 2006 DRAMA DESK AWARD • 2006 OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
“DELICIOUS! HARRY CONNICK, JR. and KELLI O'HARA are THE HOTTEST COUPLE
IN THE NEW YORK THEATRE.” - Ben Brantley, The New York Times
“BREATHTAKING! Roundabout's revival outshines the original.” - John Lahr, The New Yorker
“MARVELOUS! HARRY CONNICK, JR. is SENSATIONAL
– this is a debut of legendary proportions! KELLI O'HARA is EXQUISITE!
MICHAEL McKEAN is a A GEM!” - Clive Barnes, New York Post
“EXUBERANTLY REINVENTED by KATHLEEN MARSHALL!
HARRY CONNICK, JR. is TERRIFIC! A dream team of a cast!” - Pat Collins, WWOR-TV
“BRINGS DOWN THE HOUSE! Superb staging! A terrific score
by RICHARD ADLER and JERRY ROSS! A TRIUMPH!” - Frank Scheck, The Hollwood Reporter
Harry Connick, Jr.
Kelli O'Hara & Michael McKean
in
Book by
George Abbott & Richard Bissell
Music and Lyrics by
Richard Adler & Jerry Ross
Based on the novel "7 1/2 Cents" by Richard Bissell
Book revisions for this production by Peter Ackerman
Directed and Choreographed by
Kathleen Marshall
International recording star Harry Connick, Jr. made his theatrical debut as Sid Sorokin in the Tony Award®-winning production of The Pajama Game. With a score featuring standards like "Hey There," "Steam Heat" and "Hernando's Hideaway," The Pajama Game is set in the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory during a strenuous labor negotiation. At the musical's center is the simmering attraction between a handsome new manager and a lovely union representative. But their budding romance is threatened by the impending strike.
Along with Harry Connick, Jr., The Pajama Game starred Kelli O'Hara (The Light in the Piazza, The Sweet Smell of Success) as Babe Williams and Michael McKean ("Laverne and Shirley," This is Spinal Tap) as Hines
Also featured in the cast were Peter Benson (Cabaret, Little Me) as Prez, Joyce Chittick (Sweet Charity, Wonderful Town) as Mae, Megan Lawrence (Urinetown, Les Miserables) as Gladys, Michael McCormick (Gypsy, 1776) as Pop/Ganzenlicher, Richard Poe (Fiddler on the Roof, 1776) as Hasler, and Roz Ryan (One Mo' Time, Chicago) as Mabel.
The cast also included Bridget Berger, Stephen Berger, Kate Chapman, Paula Leggett Chase, Jennifer Cody, David Eggers, Michael Halling, Bianca Marroquin, Michael O'Donnell, Vince Pesce, Devin Richards, Jeffrey Schecter, Amber Stone and Debra Walton.
The Pajama Game enjoyed a sold-out run and received the 2006 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.
Major support for this production provided by The Kaplen Foundation and
Buy the 2006 Roundabout Cast Recording
HAROLD AND MIRIAM STEINBERG CENTER FOR THEATRE
LAURA PELS THEATRE
November 1, 2005 - January 29, 2006
“HILARIOUS!” - Theatermania
“The EXCELLENT MICHAEL C. HALL shows his range,
from sadist to angel.” - The Journal News
“NOAH HAIDLE'S ZANY COMEDY AIMS TO UNSETTLE AND DELIGHT
IN EQUAL MEASURE.” - The New York Times
“MAMIE GUMMER GLOWS! She is a charismatic and
UTTERLY REMARKABLE actress!” - Newsday
NEW YORK PREMIERE
A New Play by Noah Haidle
Directed by Michael Greif
In Noah Haidle's outrageous new comedy Mr. Marmalade, adult behavior is interpreted through the characters Lucy (Mamie Gummer) and Larry (Pablo Schreiber), two very smart children. Lucy has a precocious vocabulary, killer skills in the kitchen, a husband who spends too much time at the office, and she's just four years old! Her imaginary world revolves around a too-busy businessman named Mr. Marmalade (Michael C. Hall) who never has time for the child who adores him.
In his first project following the final season of HBO's acclaimed series "Six Feet Under," Michael C. Hall returns to the Roundabout stage. Hall was starring as the "Emcee" in the Tony Award® winning revival of Cabaret in October 2000 when he was cast as "David Fisher" on "Six Feet Under." He left the Roundabout production to film the pilot episode and now returns following the fifth and final season of the groundbreaking series that earned him an Emmy nomination and made him a household name.
The full cast of Mr. Marmalade includes Michael Chernus (A Number), David Costabile (Caroline or Change), Mamie Gummer (Off-Broadway debut), Pablo Schreiber (Manuscript) and Virginia Louise Smith (RTC's Twentieth Century, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Tartuffe and A Flea in her Ear). Later in the run, Brian Hutchison (The Invention of Love) joined the cast.
Noah Haidle's most recent play, Princess Marjorie, received its World Premiere engagement earlier this year. Haidle's Rag and Bone recently played the Long Wharf Theatre as part of the New American Voices Festival. His plays have been produced at South Coast Repertory, The Long Wharf Theatre, and Arielle Tepper's Summer Play Festival. Haidle is currently working on commissions for Playwrights Horizons, Princeton University and a screenplay for Scott Rudin Productions. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the Juilliard School, where he was a Lila Acheson Wallace playwright-in-residence.
Michael Greif's most recent works include Neal Bell's Spatter Pattern at Playwrights Horizons and Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard at The Williamstown Theatre Festival. Broadway: Jonathan Larson's Rent (Obie Award, Tony Nomination) and Never Gonna Dance. New York Shakespeare Festival Credits include: Suzan Lori-Parks' Fucking A; Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters (Obie Award); Jose Rivera's Marisol; Pericles; Connie Congdon's Casanova; Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day; and Sophie Treadwell's Machinal (Obie Award). At New York Theatre Workshop (current artistic associate), he directed Cavedweller; Bright Lights, Big City and the original production of Rent. Other Off Broadway credits include Neil Labute's The Distance From Here at Manhattan Class Company; Betty Rules at The Zipper Theater; A Few Stout Individuals by John Guare at Signature Theatre and Monster at Classic Stage Company.
February 17 - May 21, 2006
“HILARIOUS! SCOTT ELLIS' PRODUCTION IS SPLENDID!” - - Howard Kissel, DAILY NEWS
“AN UNSURPASSABLE CAST!
ALEC BALDWIN gives a PERFORMANCE TO ENSHRINE
IN OUR MEMORY!” - - John Simon, BLOOMBERG NEWS
“SUPREMELY ENTERTAINING! A DREAM CAST!” - Roma Torre, NEW YORK 1
“A RAPID-FIRE COMEDY! THE CAST IS IMPECCABLE!
A FIRST-RATE EVENING OF THEATER!” - Jeffrey Lyons, WNBC-TV
by Joe Orton
Directed by Scott Ellis
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Joe Orton's classic dark comedy Entertaining Mr. Sloane centers on a handsome stranger with a secret, his libidinous landlady, her gender-bending brother and geriatric father. Kath's (Maxwell) language may be prim but her intentions are blatant when she picks up Mr. Sloane (Carmack) and takes him in as a lodger. Attractive, mischievous and dangerous, Sloane eventually has Kath, her brother Ed (Baldwin) and their father Kemp (Easton) eating out of his hand as they all compete for his favors. Together they play out a sexual tug of war, sparking a series of murderously funny events in this survival of the fittest power struggle where they will resort to anything to get what they want.
Entertaining Mr. Sloane marks Alec Baldwin's second production with Roundabout Theatre Company, where he last starred on Broadway in Twentieth Century. He was nominated for a 1992 Tony Award® for his portrayal of Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and recently received a Golden Globe, SAG and Academy Awards for his role in Wayne Kramer's film The Cooler.
Chris Carmack, famous for his role on television's "The O.C.", is making his Off-Broadway debut. Other notable TV credits include "Related," "Smallville," "Strangers With Candy," "Beach Girls" and "The Last Ride." His upcoming films are Randall Kleiser's Lovewrecked and Donald Petrie's Just My Luck.
Richard Easton recieved a Tony®, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Award for his work in The Invention of Love on Broadway. He has also appeared on Broadway in The Rivals, Henry IV, Noises Off, Exit the King, The Misanthrope, Cherry Orchard, Hamlet, The Country Wife and School for Scandal among others. His film work includes Henry V, Dead Again and Finding Forester.
Jan Maxwell was nominated for a 2005 Tony Award® and won a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance in Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang. On Broadway, she has been seen in Sixteen Wounded (Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), The Dinner Party (Outer Critics Circle Award - Best Ensemble), The Sound of Music (OCC nomination), A Doll's House (OCC nomination), Dancing At Lughnasa, and City of Angels.
Four-time Tony Award® nominated director Scott Ellis is the Associate Artistic Director of the Roundabout Theatre Company. For the RTC on Broadway, he directed last season's critically acclaimed Twelve Angry Men (Tony® and Drama Desk nom.), The Look of Love, Rodgers & Hart's The Boys From Syracuse, Arthur Miller's The Man Who Had All the Luck (RTC & Williamstown), The Rainmaker with Woody Harrelson and Jayne Atkinson, 1776 (Drama Desk, Tony® nom.), Company (Tony® nom.), She Loves Me (Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk, Tony nom.), Picnic (Outer Critics nom.) and A Month in the Country with Helen Mirren.
One of England's most celebrated satirists and playwrights, Joe Orton became famous during his brief career for shocking and amusing audiences while effectively pointing out the pretensions and hypocrisy of British society. His first major play, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, was first produced on Broadway in 1965 and was made into a 1970 feature film directed by Douglas Hickox. Orton's popular comedy What The Butler Saw was first staged in New York in 1970 at the McAlpin Rooftop Theatre, winning the Obie Award for Best Foreign Play. Orton's hit play Loot first bowed at the Biltmore Theatre in 1968 and was most recently revived on Broadway in 1986.
Support for this production provided by
the Laura Pels Foundation and the Henry Nias Foundation.
June 9 - September 3, 2006
“LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY! WHIP-SMART WITH A SUBLIME CAST!
Katie Finneran is BRILLIANT!” - Joy Goodwin, NEW YORK SUN
“GLUTTONOUS FUN! John Ellison Conlee was born to play this role!
Denis O'Hare is HILARIOUS!” - Peter Santilli, AP
“GRADE 'A' PRIME COMEDY! Greg Kotis is a smart,
highly-original playwright.” - David Cote, NY1
“DELICIOUSLY DEMENTED PERFORMANCES!
Logan Marshall-Green is a comic prince!” - Marilyn Stasio, VARIETY
CO-WORLD PREMIERE*
by Greg Kotis
Directed by John Rando
with
John Ellison Conlee
Katie Finneran
Logan Marshall-Green
Denis O'Hare
From the Tony Award®-winning team behind Urinetown comes the world premiere (in collaboration with the Old Globe, San Diego, CA) of this play written by Greg Kotis and directed by John Rando (The Wedding Singer, Dance of the Vampires). This dark comedy unfolds on a pig farm, where survival is a daily struggle, emotions run as wild as the herd, and getting your hands dirty is just the beginning.
John Ellison Conlee, last seen in Roundabout's The Constant Wife, joins Tony Award® winner Katie Finneran (Noises Off, Roundabout's Cabaret) in this deliciously tongue-in-cheek tale, along with Tony Award® winner Denis O'Hare (Take Me Out, Roundabout's Assassins) and "The O.C." star Logan Marshall-Green (Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead).
*Developed in collaboration with The Old Globe, San Diego, California
Louis G. Spisto, Executive Director; Jack O'Brien, Artistic Director; Jerry Patch, Resident Artistic Director
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