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Posted: 10/21/09 at 11:17am
"Salma Hayek, Jessica Biel, Matthew Morrison and Paulo Szot toplined a closed reading last weekend of Lincoln Center Theater's developing tuner version of "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown."
None of those thesps are definitively signed on for a full production, and a rep for LCT says no plans for the tuner have yet been nailed down. Still, such a starry preliminary cast bodes wells for the show, which is said to be a Broadway possibility for as early as next spring.
Hayek would be a buzzworthy Hollywood addition to the legit scene, while Biel, who appeared over the summer in "Guys and Dolls" at the Hollywood Bowl, has been eyeing theater projects in recent months. Both Morrison ("Glee") and Szot were in the original cast of the LCT revival of "South Pacific," still running at the org's Vivian Beaumont Theater.
Joanna Gleason and Argentinian actress Mia Maestro ("Alias") also were among the thesps to perform in the reading..."
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118010176.html?categoryid=15&cs=1&ref=bd_legit
None of those thesps are definitively signed on for a full production, and a rep for LCT says no plans for the tuner have yet been nailed down. Still, such a starry preliminary cast bodes wells for the show, which is said to be a Broadway possibility for as early as next spring.
Hayek would be a buzzworthy Hollywood addition to the legit scene, while Biel, who appeared over the summer in "Guys and Dolls" at the Hollywood Bowl, has been eyeing theater projects in recent months. Both Morrison ("Glee") and Szot were in the original cast of the LCT revival of "South Pacific," still running at the org's Vivian Beaumont Theater.
Joanna Gleason and Argentinian actress Mia Maestro ("Alias") also were among the thesps to perform in the reading..."
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118010176.html?categoryid=15&cs=1&ref=bd_legit
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
