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Here's another point of view - http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/07/25/nathan lane mark rylance and why great stage actors are best onstage.html? mc cid=37ac62bf1f&mc eid=33d 801170a

The advance is already over 6 million. So it's selling very well.

ALAN CUMMING AND KRISTIN CHENOWETH WILL HOST.

James Corden is already set as Pseudolus for next spring.

James Corden is already set as Pseudolus for next spring.

He was injured while stepping off the moving turntable.

He was injured while stepping off the moving turntable.

The Nance is a play, not a musical.

Oh, can you ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE that?

I find it hilarious and sad that on a Happy Birthday thread people need to attack and psychoanalyze Mr. Lane. The story you recounted is just not true. He did say something along the lines of "Don't worry, things will get better when the new guy arrives." I know, I was in the show. This sounds like a bad game of Telephone, where people who obviously have an agenda keep changing a story to make it sound worse. No, Nathan does not suffer fools gladly, but he is one of the most generous performe...

Nathan was Timon.

He and Nathan Lane are very close, long-time friends, but they have never dated.

THE BRODERICK/LANE ODD COUPLE HAD A 21 MILLION DOLLAR ADVANCE BEFORE THE FIRST PREVIEW.

It's actually Douglas Carter Beane's new play, and a more serious one as well. As for audiences being tired of Lane, I don't think so. He kept The Addams Family alive for a year after devastating reviews, starred in a hugely successful revival of Iceman, and has been very well received in an understated performance on The Good Wife. He's also been away from Bway for 2 years, so it's not like we've just seen him. Just go see The Performers instead.

NATHAN LANE

Lincoln Center is producing The Nance in a Broadway house, not the Beaumont. Too bad they didn't bring in The Iceman Cometh for the Beaumont, It would have looked great there. For the record, Butley did good business, and recouped in its limited run. November did well, and came close to recoupment. And before that, The Odd Couple was a huge financial success, although disliked by critics.

Nathan Lane and Victor Garber were never an item. Just very good friends.

For their 3 month return to The Producers, Lane and Broderick each received 100,000 per week. Plus a percentage.

For whatever it's worth, Simon Gray had very much wanted Lane to play Butley someday, after they had worked together on The Common Pursuit (Long Wharf, LA, and New York). In Boston it had received very favorable reviews in the Times (Bruce Weber) and Variety. Brantley was very dismissive when it came to NY, but there were also many good notices as well, and the play did recoup in its' limited run. Gray discusses it at length, and even compares Lane and Alan Bates, in his wonderful diary, Posi...

Well, there are only two lines shown here, and he certainly sounds fine to me, and not in the Dick Van Dyke cockney variety. It feels like you have an axe to grind with Lane. I saw his Bway debut in Present Laughter, in which he had a British accent, and then The Common Pursuit, where he first worked with Simon Gray, and neither time did anyone criticize his accent. After the success of The Producers, I think people were surprised to see him doing an English accent again. But you are certainl...