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Kristen Johnston, Gareth Saxe, et al. Set for Mint’s So Help Me God! Reading

| New York City |

June 5, 2009

Kristen Johnston
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
Kristen Johnston
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Full casting has been announced for a reading of Maurine Dallas Watkins’ So Help Me God!, a benefit for the Mint Theater Company to be presented at the Lucille Lortel Theater on Monday, June 8 at 7:30pm.

Martin Platt will direct the play, which details the backstage intrigue swirling around a stage diva and her striving understudy. Watkins is best known for writing the play Chicago and its screen adaptation, Roxie Hart.

As previously announced, the reading will star Emmy Award winner and stage veteran Kristen Johnston as Lily, with the cast also including Sheffield Chastain, Catherine Curtin, Amy Fitts, Roderick Hill, Shannon Koob, Jeremy Lawrence, Paul O’Brien, Mark Pinter, Allen Lewis Rickman, Gareth Saxe, Kraig Swartz, Jeff Steitzer, Peter Van Wagner, John C. Vennema, and Margot White.

Tickets range from $40-$250. To order, call 212-315-0231 or visit www.minttheater.org.

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