Baranski, Daniels, Grizzard, Hoffman, Phillips, et al. to Appear at MTC

Christine Baranski, Diane Davis, George Grizzard, Jackie Hoffman, Siân Phillips, and David Rasche will star in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of Paul Rudnick’s Regrets Only, under the direction of Christopher Ashley. The show will begin preview performances at City Center Stage I on October 19 and will open on November 14.

In other MTC news, Mark Linn-Baker has replaced the previously announced Adam Arkin in the cast of Simon Mendes de Costa’s Losing Louie, set to open at the Biltmore Theatre on October 12. The cast also includes Matthew Arkin, Scott Cohen, Jan Maxwell, and Michele Pawk. Among Linn-Baker’s Broadway credits are A Year With Frog and Toad, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Laughter on the 23rd Floor.

MTC has also announced that Jeff Daniels will star in the New York premiere of David Harrower’s Blackbird. The show, to be directed by Joe Mantello, will open at City Center Stage I on April 10. Daniels was last seen on the New York stage in Redwood Curtain; his many film credits include Terms of Endearment, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Dumb & Dumber, and Good Night and Good Luck.

Regrets Only concerns the interactions between Jack McCollough, a powerhouse attorney (Rasche); his deliriously social wife, Tibby (Baranski); their daughter (Davis); fashion designer Hank Hadley (Grizzard); Tibby’s mother, Marietta (Phillips); and Myra, the McCulloughs’ longtime maid (Hoffman). Rudnick and Ashley previously collaborated on such shows as Jeffrey and The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told.

Baranski recently starred in the Kennedy Center production of Mame; she is a two-time Tony Award winner for The Real Thing and Rumours, and a multiple Emmy Award winner for her work on Cybill. Davis recently made her Broadway debut in Festen. Grizzard won a Tony Award for A Delicate Balance and has also starred on Broadway in such plays as Seascape and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Hoffman appeared in the Broadway production of Hairspray and is currently playing Gorgeous Teitelbaum in the Old Globe Theatre’s revival of The Sisters Rosensweig. Phillips has been seen on Broadway in Marlene. Rasche’s Broadway credits include The Shadow Box and Loose Ends.

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