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Broadway history was made last night with the opening of Deuce. The show marks the first teaming of Tony Award winners Marian Seldes and Angela Lansbury, who play a pair of retired tennis pros in the midst of an uneasy reunion.
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The show's director, Michael Blakemore, knows something about making history; he's the only person ever to win Tony Awards for Best Director of a Play and Best Director of a Musical (for Copenhagen and Kiss Me, Kate) in the same year.
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Deuce author Terrence McNally already has four Tonys on his mantle, and recently earned a Drama Desk Award nomination for his play Some Men.
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The opening's many luminaries included McNally's great pal, Nathan Lane, who has starred in the playwright's Love! Valour! Compassion! and The Lisbon Traviata, among other works...
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...Victor Garber, who opens this week in the Huntington Theatre Company's production of Present Laughter, and Tony winner Andrea Martin...
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...John Glover, now on Broadway as Man in Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone, who won a Tony for Love! Valour! Compassion! and starred in the Philadelphia premiere of Some Men...
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...the multi-talented David Hyde Pierce, who has already earned a slew of award nominations for his performance as the show business-loving detective in Curtains...
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...and his equally brilliant co-star, Debra Monk, who plays brassy producer Carmen Bernstein in the hit musical.
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Among the other notables who attended the opening were Harriet Harris, soon to return to Broadway in the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Old Acquaintance...
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...the legendary Elaine Stritch...
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...Emmy Award winner and theater veteran Doris Roberts...
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...Tony winner Dick Latessa with Mary Louise Wilson, a sure Tony nominee this year for her amazing work in Grey Gardens...
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...Mary Poppins co-stars Ashley Brown and Gavin Lee, who are both up for Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk awards...
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...Outer Critics hopeful Charlotte d'Amboise, nominated for her role of Cassie in the revival of A Chorus Line, with her husband, actor Terrence Mann...
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... and the evening's most special guest, tennis legend Billie Jean King, who is prominently mentioned in the script of Deuce.
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