Baldwin, Carmack, Easton, Emery Set for Roundabout’s Entertaining Mr. Sloane

Alec Baldwin, Chris Carmack, Richard Easton, and Lisa Emery will star in a Roundabout Theater Company production of Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr. Sloane at the Laura Pels Theater, February 17-May 21, 2006. The show will be directed by Scott Ellis and is scheduled to open officially on March 16.

Orton’s play concerns a sexy young man named Mr. Sloane (Carmack) who takes a room with a woman named Kath (Emery) and ends up bewitching not only his libidinous landlady but also her brother, Ed (Baldwin) and even their father, Kemp (Easton). Orton’s other works include Loot and What the Butler Saw. First seen in England in 1964, Entertaining Mr. Sloane had a brief Broadway run in 1965. It also received notable Off-Broadway productions in 1981 and 1996, the former featuring Barbara Bryne, Maxwell Caulfield (succeeded by Brad Davis), Gwyllum Evans, and Joseph Maher (succeeded by Jerome Dempsey), and the latter starring Brian Murray and Neil Maffin.

The creative team for the Roundabout production includes Allan Moyer (sets), Michael Krass (costumes), Kenneth Posner (lighting), and John Gramada (sound design). Ellis, the Roundabout’s associate artistic director, received a 2005 Tony Award nomination for directing the company’s production of 12 Angry Men. He was also a Tony nominee for 1776, Company, and She Loves Me — all produced by the Roundabout — as well as Steel Pier.

Baldwin’s Broadway credits include Serious Money, A Streetcar Named Desire (for which he received a Tony Award nomination), Twentieth Century, and Orton’s Loot. The actor received an Academy Award nomination for his role in The Cooler and was also seen in the film versions of Prelude to a Kiss (in which he starred Off-Broadway) and Glengarry Glen Ross.

Carmack, who will make his Off-Broadway debut in Entertaining Mr. Sloane, played Luke Ward in the first season of the popular FOX-TV series The O.C.; he has also been a model for numerous fashion companies, including GUESS and Abecrombie & Fitch. Easton won a Tony Award for his performance in The Invention of Love, and his stage credits also include Henry IV, The Rivals, and Noises Off; he is currently starring in the New York Theater Workshop’s Bach at Leipzig. Emery will soon be appearing in the New Group production of Abigail’s Party; among her many theatrical credits are Smell of the Kill, The Women, Present Laughter, Iron, and Dinner With Friends.