On Thursday, October 18, the Roundabout Theatre Company officially unveiled its new production of George Bernard Shaw’s classic play Pygmalion, with Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays as the irascible Henry Higgins.
Film star Claire Danes is making her Broadway debut as Eliza Doolittle, who is transformed from a low-class flower girl to a respectable lady.
The show’s opening night guests included Danes’ boyfriend, film star Hugh Dancy, who co-starred with Mays in the Tony-winning revival of Journey’s End…
…New Group artistic director and frequent Roundabout helmer Scott Elliott, with Big Love star Chloe Sevigny…
The hot young actress Mamie Gummer, who may soon make her Broadway debut in a revival of Lillian Hellman’s The Autumn Garden…
…former Company star Elizabeth Stanley, who’s heading off to California’s La Jolla Playhouse to star in the Broadway-bound musical Cry-Baby…
…and the great Broadway star Frances Sternhagen, who was on hand to cheer her son, Tony Carlin, who has a small role in Pygmalion.
On Sunday, October 21, New World Stages hosted the opening of Charles Busch’s hilarious Die Mommie Die! Here’s the star — out of his Angela Arden drag — with Van Hansis and Ashley Morris, who play his troubled on-stage offspring.
The show’s supporting cast also includes handsome Chris Hoch, who plays the sexually ravenous Tony Parker…
…and the always-hilarious Kristine Nielsen, as scheming servant Bootsie Carp.
Hansis, whose day job is playing gay teen Luke Snyder on the CBS daytime drama As the World Turns, was greeted after the performance by many of his castmates, including Jake Silbermann, who plays his love interest, Noah.
Other celebrities on hand for the opening included Busch’s great pal and frequent leading lady, the brilliant Julie Halston…
…Kate Mulgrew, who gave a marvelous performance Off-Broadway earlier this year in Busch’s Our Leading Lady…
…woman-about-town Joan Rivers, who is hard at work on her own new theatrical project…
…and Curtains star Karen Ziemba, who seems to be auditioning to fill Busch’s sizable pumps!
For TheaterMania’s review of Pygmalion, click here.
For TheaterMania’s review of Die Mommie Die!, click here.
