A Catered Affair Info

#1

A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 4:05pm

A Catered Affair
This new musical written by and starring Harvey Fierstein, explores the meaning of family and the need for love.

Set in The Bronx in 1953, A Catered Affair reveals relationships strained to their limits when a couple must decide whether to spend their life savings on a family business or to launch their only daughter's marriage with a lavish catered affair. Harvey Fierstein's book and John Bucchino's score seize the opportunity to explore the meaning of family and the need for love, both new and reawakened.

Starring:
Harvey Fierstein as Uncle Winston
Tom Wopat as Tom Hurley
Also starring:
Leslie Kritzer as Jane Hurley
Faith Prince as Aggie

Music and Lyrics by John Bucchino
Book by Harvey Fierstein
Directed by John Doyle

WHAT?
Musical

WHERE:
T.B.A.

WHEN?
Monday-Saturday - 8PM
Wednesday & Saturday - 2PM

(Beginning April 18th)
Tuesday - 7PM
Wednesday-Saturday - 8PM
Wednesday & Saturday - 2PM
Sunday - 3PM

Previews: March 25, 2008
Opens: April 17, 2008

#2

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 4:11pm

Opens: April 17, 2008

What a wonderful birthday gift.

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A work of art is an invitation to love.

Updated On: 7/15/07 at 04:11 PM

#3

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 4:23pm

That, of course, is via Broadway.com - We'll see if it holds truth 'cause I haven't seen (or heard) any official word yet.

#4

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 4:25pm

... it's subject to change, but that Broadway.com is pretty official.

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A work of art is an invitation to love.

#5

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 5:32pm

without a definite theatre things can easily change!

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#6

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 5:34pm

It pretty much has a theatre already, it just hasn't been announced yet.

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#7

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 5:38pm

I thought this was coming in the fall?

#8

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 5:41pm

It is playing its out of town try-out in the fall, then coming to Broadway in the spring.

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"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

#9

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 5:42pm

What theatre are they aiming for exactly? I'm curious!

#10

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 5:43pm

The Kerr.

#11

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 5:43pm

Sounds interesting. I can't believe the theater will be dark for so long. I'm most curious to hear the score and see how the sets are going to be for this show.

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#12

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 5:47pm

Has the Kerr been common knowledge, or did I just TOTALLY miss something? Am I totally out of the loop?

#13

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 5:47pm

The Kerr has been rumored since the show announced it would transfer.

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"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

#14

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 5:51pm

Transfer? Has it been peformed anywhere before? I thought this was a totally new work, and that the out-of-town run would be the actual 'premiere'

#15

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 5:53pm

No, it's not a transfer. I believe ray chose the wrong word.

#16

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 6:02pm

That's what I thought.

I guess speculation began to pick-up once word got out of the eventual Broadway bow for A CATERED AFFAIR.

I got it. Now.

#17

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 6:14pm

Oops, I did choose the wrong word, Yankee. I got confused with IN THE HEIGHTS. The out-of-town try out is indeed the world premiere of the show. Sorry for any confusion...

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"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

#18

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 6:17pm

any word on where the out of town preview is scheduled?

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#19

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 6:21pm

Isn't this going to the Old Globe this fall?

#20

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 6:24pm

that sounds vaguely familiar ... mebbe im just being lazy on a sunday afternoon.

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#21

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 6:25pm

So does this mean the Uncle and Father are the leads? Or are they just the names they're leading with.

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#22

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 11:16pm

Bump.

Has anyone seen the movie? Who are the lead characters?

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#23

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 11:42pm

The show begins previews at the Old Globe on September 20.

#24

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 11:42pm

Oh, I didn't realize it was based on a movie.

So, so far we have one original musical on the docket for Broadway this season: IN THE HEIGHTS.

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#25

re: A Catered Affair Info

Posted: 7/15/07 at 11:43pm

Anyone notice the orchestrations are by the orchestrator for the Les Mis Revival and Legally Blonde?


Yeah...

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