Mario Cantone, Neil Simon, Dan Stevens Head to Roundabout Theatre Company’s Opening Night Picnic
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Elizabeth Marvel, Reed Birney, and Maddie Corman take their bows on opening night of Roundabout’s Picnic.
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Costars Maggie Grace and Sebastian Stan take the final bow on opening night.
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Mare Winningham and Ellen Burstyn are elated as they take their bows at Picnic’s opening.
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Maggie Grace and Madeleine Martin play sisters Madge and Millie.
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Picnic’s alliterative trio of stars, Madeleine Martin, Maggie Grace, and Mare Wittingham, portray the ladies of the Owens family when onstage.
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Maggie Grace and Sebastian Stan, who portray the leading roles of Madge and Hal, are excited to officially open their play.
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Elizabeth Marvel, shines as Rosemary Sydney in Roundabout’s revival production of Picnic.
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Cast members Cassie Beck, four-time Obie Award winner Elizabeth Marvel, and Maddie Corman (Next Fall) are all smiles at the Picnic opening.
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Chris Perfetti (Sons of the Prophet) and Maddie Corman celebrate Perfetti’s Broadway debut in Picnic.
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Ben Rappaport (who plays Picnic’s Alan Seymour) and his girlfriend Megan Kane are thrilled to celebrate his Broadway debut.
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Tony Award winner Ellen Burstyn (Same Time, Next Year), who plays Mrs. Helen Potts in the show, has the theater bug again after 10 years away from the stage.
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2011 Drama Desk Award winner Reed Birney, who plays Howard, stops for a photo.
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Director Sam Gold returns to Roundabout with Picnic, having directing Look Back in Anger last year.
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Picnic choreographer Chase Brock is looking forward to his big Broadway opening.
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Fight director Rick Sordelet and son Christian Kelly-Sordelet rock this opening night photo op.
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Tovah Feldshuh recently completed a scene-stealing turn in Red Bull Theater’s acclaimed off-Broadway production of Volpone.
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On a night off from Broadway’s The Heiress, Downton Abbey heartthrob Dan Stevens checks out what’s playing a few blocks away. (While his TV costar Maggie Smith wins a Golden Globe, PS.)
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Once Upon a Time star Jennifer Morrison is elated to be celebrating the Broadway opening of her main squeeze, Picnic star Sebastian Stan.
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Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie (recently of Golden Age) gets ready to see the latest production Broadway has to offer.
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With director Michael Mayer and actor Andy Mientus in attendance, the evening is sure to be a Smash.
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Blythe Danner (currently of Nice Work If You Can Get It) braves the cold for Roundabout Theatre Company’s latest opening. She previously appeared in their productions of Follies and Suddenly Last Summer.
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Roundabout alum Santino Fontana (Sons of the Prophet) is gearing up to star as the Prince in Broadway’s upcoming production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella.
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Mia Maestro gets ready to catch her Twilight sister, Maggie Grace, in her Broadway debut.
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Roundabout alum Margaret Colin (Old Acquaintance) is pleased to be on hand to support her Gossip Girl colleague, Sebastian Stan, and his Broadway opening night.
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Comedian Mario Cantone and Roundabout alum is thrilled to spend the chilly evening at a Picnic.
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Lily Rabe smiles for our camera just a few seconds before passers-by on 42nd Street recognize her as American Horror Story’s devilish Sister Mary Eunice.
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It doesn’t get any more stunning than theater pals Katherine Waterston (Bachelorette) and Ari Graynor (The Performers).
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Roundabout alum Simon Jones (You Never Can Tell) gives us a smile on a chilly New York City evening.
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Tony Award winner Jane Alexander (The Great White Hope) is joined by her grandchildren to support their mother (her daughter-in-law), Picnic cast member Maddie Corman.
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Jenny Bacon, Ari Brand, and Mark Nelson of off-Broadway’s My Name is Asher Lev smile for a photo before heading in to see Picnic.
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Alexandra Silber (Master Class) flashes a smile on her way in to the American Airlines Theatre.
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Theater-going pals Adam Chanler-Berat (Peter and the Starcatcher) and Stephen Karam (Sons of the Prophet) are ready for a night out at Broadway’s Picnic.
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Actress Elizabeth Wilson made her Broadway debut as school teacher Christine Schoenwalder in the original Broadway production of Picnic in 1953.
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Could BFFs Josh Hamilton (Dead Accounts), Callie Thorne (Rescue Me), and Sam Rockwell (A Behanding in Spokane) be planning a Broadway production together?
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Tony Award winner Frances Sternhagen (The Heiress) is gearing up to return to the stage in Manhattan Theatre Club’s off-Broadway production of The Madrid.
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Hamish Linklater (Seminar) gets a tad philosophical upon arriving at the American Airlines Theatre.
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Legendary playwright Neil Simon (right) attends the opening of Broadway’s Picnic with his wife, television and Broadway veteran Elaine Joyce (Sugar).
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Dick Scanlan, the co-author of Roundabout’s Everyday Rapture, greets the cameras outside the American Airlines Theatre.
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Obie Award winner Dana Ivey (Driving Miss Daisy) is always happy to give us a smile!
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Stage couple Carolyn McCormick and Byron Jennings (recently of Ten Chimneys) are dressed to kill on the opening night of Picnic.
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xoxo: Chace Crawford is on hand to support his former Gossip Girl costar, Picnic star Sebastian Stan.
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Roundabout Theatre Company celebrated the opening night of their newest revival of William Inge’s Picnic, directed by wunderkind Sam Gold, at the American Airlines Theatre on Sunday January 13th, 2013.
Picnic debuted on Broadway in 1953 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In the 2013 revival, Tony Award winner Ellen Burstyn stars in this new production as Mrs. Helen Potts, opposite Sebastian Stan and Maggie Grace as romantic leads Hal and Madge. Set over Labor Day weekend, the work follows the relationship between Hal, a handsome young drifter, and the beautiful Madge. When Hal is run out of town, Madge is forced to decide whether their brief romantic encounter is worth following.
Guests at the opening night performance included Sebastian Stan’s Gossip Girl costars Margaret Colin and Chace Crawford, Twilight‘s Mia Maestro, Alexandra Silber (Master Class), Blythe Danner (Nice Work If You Can Get It), Santino Fontana (Cinderella), Stephen Karam (Sons of the Prophet), Adam Chanler-Berat (Peter and the Starcatcher), Dana Ivey (The Importance of Being Earnest) , Elizabeth Wilson (Waiting in the Wings), Jane Alexander (The Lady from Dubuque), Mario Cantone (Laugh Whore), legendary Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Neil Simon, Tony Award winner Frances Sternhagen (The Heiress), Simon Jones (You Never Can Tell), Hamish Linklater (Seminar), Lily Rabe (American Horror Story), Katherine Waterston (Bachelorette), Ari Graynor (The Performers) , Tovah Feldshuh (Volpone), and Walter Bobbie (Golden Age).
