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Cheyenne Jackson, Alicia Silverstone, Daniel Breaker, Jenni Barber, Henry Winkler, and Ari Graynor make up the family of The Performers.
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The lovely ladies of The Performers, Jenni Barber, Alicia Silverstone, and Ari Graynor, flaunt their opening night finery at Espace.
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Playwright David West Read and director Evan Cabnet celebrate their dual Broadway debuts at Espace.
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The understudies of The Performers, Ariana Shore, Mark Junek, and Kaily Smith, celebrate the play’s opening at Espace.
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This ice sculpture, in the shape of Cheyenne Jackson’s character Mandrew, greeted guests on their way into the swanky opening night shindig at Espace.
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Actress and author Amy Sedaris shows some love on the red carpet for Bravo TV host Andy Cohen.
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Stunning in red, stage and screen favorite Carla Gugino (The Road to Mecca) gets ready for an evening with The Performers.
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Justin Long, who appeared last spring on Broadway in Seminar, checks out The Performers, which features his For a Good Time, Call… co-star, Ari Graynor.
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Award-winning playwright and actor Eric Bogosian (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) headed to the Longacre Theatre to root for his Time Stands Still stage wife, Alicia Silverstone.
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Actor Mark Feuerstein smiles for our camera on his way into The Performers, which features his Royal Pains co-star, Henry Winkler.
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One of our favorite couples, tennis star Patrick McEnroe and Tony nominee Melissa Errico, share a moment on the red carpet before heading in to see The Performers.
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Krysta Rodriguez and Andy Mientus, who will appear in the second season of Smash, take a night off from filming the second season of the NBC drama to see the latest show Broadway has to offer.
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Jaymes Vaughan and James Davis, a pair of Chippendales dancers currently featured on the CBS series The Amazing Race, get ready for an evening of raunchy fun.
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Jon Bernthal, best known for his role on AMC’s The Walking Dead, will be seen off-Broadway this spring in MCC Theater’s Small Engine Repair.
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Tony winner Linda Lavin and her husband, musician Steve Bakunas, get close on the red carpet.
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Obie Award winner Jason Butler Harner knows his way around titillating theater, having just completed a successful run off-Broadway in the play Cock.
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Tony nominee and Emmy Award winner Tammy Blanchard (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) braves the chilly New York night to watch The Performers.
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On a night off from performing Wild With Happy, Tony nominee Colman Domingo took in The Performers to cheer on his Passing Strange co-star, Daniel Breaker.
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MSNBC colleagues Thomas Roberts and Contessa Brewer can’t wait to spend the evening with The Performers.
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Lysistrata Jones writers (and longtime life partners) Lewis Flinn and Douglas Carter Beane were happy to celebrate this scintillating new comedy.
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Vogue International Editor at Large Hamish Bowles is dapper as you’d expect at the opening of The Performers.
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Stage veteran Keith Nobbs (Lombardi) is prepping his return to off-Broadway in Playwrights Horizons’ upcoming The Great God Pan.
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With The Performers, costume designer Jessica Wegener Shay celebrates her long-awaited Broadway debut.
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Anna Louizos, the Tony-nominated scenic designer of The Performers, arrives at the Longacre Theatre with her partner, the show’s producer Robyn Goodman.
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The hunky Cheyenne Jackson stars as Mandrew, a nominee as “Best Male Performer” at the Adult Film Awards for his performance in Planet of the Tits.
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Tony Award nominee Daniel Breaker is Lee, a New York-based journalist who has traveled to Las Vegas to interview his old high school chum Mandrew.
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Ari Graynor, stunning in Dolce & Gabbana, steals her scenes as Peeps, Mandrew’s “barely legal” adult film star wife.
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Emmy-nominated stage and screen favorite Alicia Silverstone plays Sara, Lee’s straight-laced, Barry Manilow-obsessed, schoolteacher fiancée.
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Jenni Barber plays Sundown LeMay, Peeps' newly well-endowed BFF.
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Emmy-winning television legend Henry Winkler returns to the stage to play Chuck Wood, a veteran adult film star.
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Catch The Performers, now open at the Longacre Theatre.
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Set on the night of the Adult Film Awards in Las Vegas, the romantic comedy follows the exploits of journalist Lee (played by Daniel Breaker), who has traveled to Sin City for an interview with his old high school pal Mandrew (Cheyenne Jackson), now a rising adult film star. Meanwhile, when Lee's fiancee Sara (Alicia Silverstone) begins to have doubts about their impending nuptials, she enlists the help of Mandrew's wife Peeps (Ari Graynor) to compare notes. Complications ensue with the arrival of newly well-endowed adult film star Sunshine LeMay (Jenni Barber) and Chuck Wood (Henry Winkler), the hardest working man in the biz.
Guests at the performance included Steve Bakunas, Douglas Carter Beane, Jon Bernthal, Tammy Blanchard, Eric Bogosian, Hamish Bowles, Andy Cohen, James Davis, Colman Domingo, Melissa Errico, Mark Feuerstein, Lewis Flinn, Carla Gugino, Jason Butler Harner, Linda Lavin, Justin Long, Patrick McEnroe, Andy Mientus, Keith Nobbs, Thomas Roberts, Krysta Rodriguez, Amy Sedaris, and Jaymes Vaughn.
The show's creative team includes Anna Louizos (scenic design), Jessica Wegener Shay (costume design), Jeff Croiter (lighting design), Nevin Steinberg (sound design), Richard DiBella (projection design), Charles G. LaPointe (hair and wig design), and Julian Fleisher (composer).
