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Pretty Pictures

Edie Falco, Dominic Fumusa, Laura Benanti, Gretchen Mol, Anson Mount, and Bryan Singer help Marin Ireland, Steven Pasquale, Piper Perabo, and Thomas Sadoski celebrate the opening of reasons to be pretty.

By: Joseph Marzullo; Text by Dan Bacalzo · Apr 3, 2009  · New York

(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

MCC Theater's production of Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty opened on Broadway to good reviews last night at the Lyceum Theatre. Thomas Sadoski stars as Greg, a man whose inappropriate description of his girlfriend's face sets off this battle of the sexes.

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(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Marin Ireland portrays his girlfriend, Steph.

(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Film star Piper Perabo plays Steph's best friend, Carly.

(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Rescue Me star Steven Pasquale plays Carly's husband Kent, and is pictured here with his own spouse, the Tony Award-winning actress Laura Benanti, who is now Off-Broadway in Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them at the Public.

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(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Pablo Schreiber, who played Kent in the Off-Broadway production of reasons to be pretty, comes to Broadway later this month in the Goodman's celebrated revival of Desire Under the Elms.

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(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Opening night guests included theater veterans Edie Falco and Dominic Fumusa, who will be co-starring in Showtime's new series Nurse Jackie.

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(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Here's Tony Award winner Brian F. O'Byrne with Bobby Cannavale, who will star Off-Broadway later this month in The Gingerbread House.

(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Broadway veteran Jackie Hoffman will co-star with Cannavale in The Gingerbread House.

(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Gretchen Mol starred in the stage and screen versions of LaBute's The Shape of Things.

(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Film director Bryan Singer -- of X-Men and Superman Returns fame -- was a welcome opening night guest.

(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

David Greenspan wrote the book and will star in MCC's Coraline in May, and is pictured here with The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt, who composed the music, and Leigh Silverman, who will direct this musical adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel.

(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Film and TV actor Anson Mount recently appeared Off-Broadway in The New Group's Mourning Becomes Electra.

(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Here are Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants co-stars Alexis Bledel and Amber Tamblyn.

(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Anna Popplewell is one of the stars of the Chronicles of Narnia films.

(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Finally, here's Tony Award winner Julie White, who's looking very pretty.




For TheaterMania's review of reasons to be pretty, click here.




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