| “PLAZA SUITE” STARRING MATTHEW BRODERICK & SARAH JESSICA PARKER ANNOUNCES COMPLETE CAST AS NEW BLOCK OF TICKETS GO ON SALE TODAY | |
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| COMPLETE CAST ANNOUNCED FOR THE EAGERLY ANTICIPATED BROADWAY REVIVAL OF NEIL SIMON'S CLASSIC COMEDY "PLAZA SUITE" DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND PRODUCTION ANNOUNCES NEW BLOCK OF TICKETS ON SALE NOW AS REHEARSALS COMMENCE TODAY WITH STARS TWO-TIME TONY AWARD® WINNER MATTHEW BRODERICK & TWO-TIME EMMY AWARD® WINNER SARAH JESSICA PARKER UNDER THE DIRECTION OF TONY AWARD WINNER JOHN BENJAMIN HICKEY New York, NY (February 7, 2022) - Ambassador Theatre Group Productions, Gavin Kalin Productions, and Hal Luftig announced today the complete cast for the first-ever New York revival of Neil Simon's classic comedy about marriage, Plaza Suite, as rehearsals commence today under the direction of Tony Award® winner John Benjamin Hickey. Additionally, a new block of tickets for Plaza Suite are on sale today due to overwhelming demand with the strictly limited engagement now on sale through Sunday, June 26. Tickets are available at www.plazasuitebroadway.com or www.thehudsonbroadway.com. As previously announced, the production will begin preview performances on Friday, February 25, with the official opening night set for Monday, March 28, at Hudson Theatre (141 West 44th Street). Two-time Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick and two-time Emmy Award® winner Sarah Jessica Parker lead a cast which also includes Danny Bolero as The Waiter, Drama Desk Award® nominee Molly Ranson as Jean McCormick/Mimsey Hubley, and Eric Wiegand as The Bellhop/Borden Eisler. The cast is completed by Tony Award winner Michael McGrath and Tony Award nominee Erin Dilly, who will standby for Broderick and Parker, respectively; in addition to understudies Laurie Veldheer and Cesar J. Rosado. Plaza Suite played a sold-out pre-Broadway engagement at Boston's Emerson Colonial Theatre from Wednesday, February 5, 2020 through Saturday, February 22, 2020. The production was ready to begin Broadway previews on Friday, March 13, 2020 when the Governor issued the mandate on Thursday, March 12, 2020 closing all Broadway theaters. The design team includes two-time Tony Award winner John Lee Beatty (set design), Tony Award winner Jane Greenwood (costume design), five-time Tony Award winner Brian MacDevitt (lighting design), Tony Award winner Scott Lehrer (sound design), Tony Award winner Marc Shaiman (incidental music), and Jim Carnahan (casting director). Plaza Suite is general managed by 101 Productions, Ltd. Plaza Suite is produced by Ambassador Theatre Group Productions, Gavin Kalin Productions, Hal Luftig, with James L. Nederlander, Douglas L. Meyer, Elizabeth Armstrong, Hunter Arnold, Caitlin Clements, Eilene Davidson Productions, Jeffrey Finn, Terry Schnuck, Smith and Brant Theatricals, Sherry and Kirk Wright, and Mike Isaacson. For tickets and additional information, please visit www.plazasuitebroadway.com. BIOGRAPHIES Neil Simon (Playwright. 1927-2018) has been represented on Broadway by Come Blow Your Horn; Little Me; Barefoot in the Park; The Odd Couple (1965 Tony Award); Sweet Charity; The Star-Spangled Girl; Plaza Suite; Promises, Promises; Last of the Red Hot Lovers; The Gingerbread Lady; The Prisoner of Second Avenue; The Sunshine Boys; The Good Doctor; God's Favorite; California Suite; Chapter Two; They're Playing Our Song; I Ought to Be in Pictures; Fools; Brighton Beach Memoirs; Biloxi Blues (1985 Tony Award); the female version of The Odd Couple; Broadway Bound; Rumors; Lost in Yonkers (1991 Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award); Jake's Women; The Goodbye Girl; Laughter on the 23rd Floor; Proposals; The Dinner Party; and 45 Seconds From Broadway. His Off-Broadway credits include London Suite. His films include Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, The Out-of-Towners, Plaza Suite, The Heartbreak Kid, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Murder by Death, The Sunshine Boys, The Goodbye Girl, The Cheap Detective, California Suite, Chapter Two, Seems Like Old Times, Only When I Laugh, I Ought to Be in Pictures, Max Dugan Returns, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Lost in Yonkers. John Benjamin Hickey (Director). Director: Bad Dates (Playwrights Horizons, Huntington Theatre, Dallas Theater Center). Actor: Broadway: The Inheritance (Tony Award nomination), Six Degrees of Separation, The Normal Heart (Tony Award), Mary Stuart, The Crucible, Cabaret, Love! Valour! Compassion!. London: The Inheritance (West End, Young Vic). Off-Broadway: Dada Woof Papa Hot (Lincoln Center), Love! Valour! Compassion! (Obie Award), Blue Window (MTC), The End of the Day (Playwrights Horizons), The Autumn Garden (Williamstown). Film: Sublet, Mapplethorpe, Truth, Pitch Perfect, The Anniversary Party, Infamous, Flags of Our Fathers, The Taking of Pelham 123, Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. Television: "In Treatment," "Manh(a)ttan," "The Good Wife," "The Good Fight," "The Big C" (Emmy nomination ). Training: Juilliard. Matthew Broderick (Sam Nash/Jesse Kiplinger/Roy Hubley). Broadway: Brighton Beach Memoirs (Tony, OCC, Theatre World Awards), Biloxi Blues, How to Succeed in Business… (Tony, DD, OCC Awards), Night Must Fall, Taller Than a Dwarf, The Producers (Tony, DD, OCC nominations), The Foreigner, The Philanthropist, The Odd Couple, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Sylvia, and It's Only a Play. Off-Broadway: The Seafarer, The Closet, Evening at the Talk House, Shining City (Obie Award), Torch Song Trilogy (OCC, Villager awards), The Widow Clair, and Valentine's Day. Television: "The Music Man," "'Master Harold'…and the Boys." Films include: Max Dugan Returns, WarGames, Ladyhawke, On Valentine's Day, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Biloxi Blues, Glory, The Freshman, The Lion King, The Cable Guy, Infinity, Election, You Can Count on Me, Wonderful World, Margaret, Tower Heist, Rules Don't Apply, Manchester by the Sea and To Dust. Broderick starred in The Starry Messenger in London and will next be seenin Painkiller for Netflix. Sarah Jessica Parker (Karen Nash/Muriel Tate/Norma Hubley) made herBroadway debut in 1976 in The Innocents directed by Harold Pinter. Other Broadway: Annie, How to Succeed in Business… and Once Upon a Mattress. Off-Broadway: Sylvia (Drama Desk nomination), The Substance of Fire, The Heidi Chronicles, To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday, April Snow,and The Commons of Pensacola. She starred in HBO's "Sex and the City" (two Emmys,four Golden Globe Awards). Film: Sex and the City and Sex and the City 2, Here and Now, I Don't Know How She Does It, Smart People, Failure to Launch, The Family Stone, State and Main, 'Til There Was You, Mars Attacks!, Extreme Measures, The First Wives Club, If Lucy Fell, Miami Rhapsody, Ed Wood, Hocus Pocus, Honeymoon in Vegas, L.A. Story, Footloose, and the upcoming Hocus Pocus 2. TV: "And Just Like That", HBO's "Divorce" (Golden Globe nomination),"Equal Justice," and "Square Pegs." Parker currently serves on the board ofdirectors for the New York City Ballet. Danny Bolero (The Waiter) Broadway: In the Heights, Joseph. Off-Broadway: The Public's Miss You Like Hell. Regional: American Mariachi, City of Angels, Drowsy Chaperone. Film: "Townhouse Confidential," Voice of Abuelo on "Alma's Way" (PBS KIDS). Watch for his cabaret show, They Call Me Cuban Pete, the Music, and Genius of Desi Arnaz. @ELAactorinNYC, www.dbolero.com Molly Ranson (Jean McCormack/ Mimsey Hubley). Broadway: Larry David's Fish in the Dark; Jerusalem with Mark Rylance; August: Osage County (and National Theatre & Sydney Theatre Company). Off-Broadway: Prayer for the French Republic (MTC); Linda (MTC); Bad Jews (Roundabout; Lortel nomination); Carrie (MCC; Drama Desk, Lortel, Drama League nominations); The Burnt Part Boys (Playwrights Horizons). Film and television: "New Amsterdam," "Horace and Pete," and Love on the Run. Eric Wiegand (The Bellhop/Borden Eisler) is thrilled to be making his Broadway debut. NYC: Pop Punk High (LPR). Regional: We Are Among Us (City Theatre). Television: "Outsiders" (WGN America). Education: Carnegie Mellon. Thank you always to Mom, Dad, Ryan, Grandma Norma, and Isabel. Michael McGrath (standby for Sam Nash/Jesse Kiplinger/Roy Hubley) last appeared on Broadway as talent agent Stan Fields in Tootsie. His many Broadway credits include principal roles in: The Front Page, She Loves Me, On The Twentieth Century, Nice Work If You Can Get It for which he received the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Also, Born Yesterday, Memphis, Is He Dead, Spamalot (Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations), Wonderful Town, Little Me, Swinging on a Star, (Theatre World Award), The Goodbye Girl, My Favorite Year, Follies (Encores!), The Boys from Syracuse (Encores!), and DuBarry was a Lady (Encores!). Off-Broadway credits include his critically acclaimed portrayal of Groucho in the first New York revival of the Marx Brothers classic The Cocoanuts, also appearing in The Louisiana Purchase, The Butter and Egg Man, Cy Coleman's Exactly Like You, Game Show, and Forbidden Broadway. On television, he served as the sidekick and co-host to Martin Short on CBS' "The Martin Short Show." Erin Dilly (standby for Karen Nash/Muriel Tate/Norma Hubley) is a Tony-nominated Broadway, television, and film veteran with over 25 years in the industry. Broadway leading roles include A Christmas Story, Nice Work If You Can Get It (opposite Mr. Matthew Broderick), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical), Into the Woods, Boys from Syracuse, Fiorello, and Babes in Arms . She starred in the Broadway national tours of South Pacific, Martin Guerre, and Beauty and the Beast. She 's worked extensively in television and film, including "Boardwalk Empire," "Bull," "Blue Bloods," "Person of Interest," "Elementary," "The Good Wife," "Law And Order," "Nurse Jackie," "Gossip Girl, " Too Big To Fail, and Julie And Julia, among others. She's worked extensively in the regions, among them the Muny, Goodspeed Opera House, the Guthrie, and the Alley Theatre. She is adjunct faculty at Pace University and Manhattan School of Music in their Musical Theatre Departments, and founder of her own studio, the Living Studio, in NYC (livingstudionyc.com). Erin is proudly married to Broadway actor/teacher Stephen Buntrock, and mother to their little women, Anna Lou and Catherine. Cesar J. Rosado (understudy Bellhop, understudy Waiter, understudy Borden Eisler). Streetcar directed by Robert O'Hara, Plano directed by Taylor Reynolds (Clubbed Thumb), The Things That Were There by David Greenspan directed by Lee Sunday Evans (Bushwick Starr), Dolphins and Sharks (LAByrinth), Seven Spots on the Sun (Rattlestick). Film and television "Manifest," "Law & Order: SVU." Laurie Veldheer (understudy Jean McCormack, understudy Mimsey Hubley). Broadway: Mamma Mia! (Sophie), Newsies (Hannah/ensemble, u/s Katherine, OBC). Tour: Fiasco Theater'sproduction of Into the Woods (Cinderella/Granny). Select regional: Steel Magnolias (Cape Playhouse), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Paper Mill; Maltz Jupiter; PCLO), Beauty and the Beast (La Mirada). BFA, Penn State University. Endless gratitude to God,my incredible family, friends, DGRW, Carnahan casting, John Benjamin Hickey andeveryone at Plaza Suite! # # # # www.plazasuitebroadway.com www.facebook.com/plazasuitebway www.twitter.com/plazasuitebway www.instagram.com/plazasuitebway |
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