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Jeff McCarthy, Chris Henry Coffey to Headline Long Wharf's Front Page

By: Brian Scott Lipton · Mar 3, 2006  · New York

Jeff McCarthy<br>
Jeff McCarthy
Jeff McCarthy and Chris Henry Coffey will star in the Long Wharf Theater's production of Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur's classic 1927 comedy The Front Page, April 5-30. The production, to be directed by Gordon Edelstein, will open officially on April 13.

The show's cast includes Stephen Lee Anderson (Woodenshoes/Pincus), Robert Ari (Mayor), Tom Aulino (Bensinger), Alyssa Bresnahan (Mollie Malloy), Robert Dorfman (Kruger), Jim Frangione (Murphy), Sheila Hickey Garvey (Mrs. Schlosser/Mrs. Grant), Bill Geisslinger (Endicott), Jerry Grayson (Diamond Louie), Susan Pourfar (Jennie/Peggy Grant), Don Sparks (McCue), Jeff Steitzer (Sheriff Hartman), Charlie Tirrell (Schwartz), and Todd Weeks (Earl Williams).

The show's creative team includes Michael Yeargan (set design), Jane Greenwood (costume design), Stephen Strawbridge (lighting design), and David Stephen Baker (sound design). Edelstein is the artistic director of the Long Wharf, and directed the 1991 Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming.

McCarthy, who will play Walter Burns, has starred on Broadway in Urinetown, Side Show, Beauty and the Beast and Zorba. Coffey, who will play Hildy Johnson, has been seen regionally in The Violet Hour, Resurrection Blues, and A View from the Bridge.


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