Kathleen Turner to Star Off-Broadway in Busch's THIRD STORY

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 11/17/08 at 9:57pm

"Kathleen Turner will join Charles Busch in MCC's upcoming production of Busch's Third Story, which is scheduled to begin previews at the Lucille Lortel Theatre Jan. 14, 2009.

Turner and Busch, according to The New York Times, will portray the two female leads. Carl Andress will direct the production, which will officially open Feb. 2, 2009. Performances will continue through Feb. 28.

Third Story, which was recently seen at the La Jolla Playhouse, features three interconnected stories. Audiences can expect "a realistic tale of a mother and son screenwriting team in the 1940s, a B-movie about the uneasy alliance between a mob queen and a frosty lady scientist and a Russian fairy tale in which a painfully shy Princess makes a dark pact with a mercurial old witch."

As previously announced, Third Story replaced Neil LaBute's The Break of Noon on the MCC schedule. The production, which will now be seen in September 2009, has been moved so it doesn't detract from the upcoming Broadway debut of LaBute's reasons to be pretty..."

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/123439.html

Updated On: 11/17/08 at 09:57 PM

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 11/17/08 at 10:00pm

What a brilliant pair!

[obsessedjb]

Posted: 11/17/08 at 10:15pm

It really saddens me that I am going to miss seeing this by two days

[scaryclowns223]

Posted: 11/17/08 at 10:53pm

So I guess this means she isn't doing the supposed Broadway transfer of the new Albee play...ME MYSELF AND I?

Because I was looking forward to that.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 11/17/08 at 10:57pm

I thought Tyne Daly was attached to that.

I never heard Turner's name attached to it.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 11/17/08 at 11:12pm

KT was rumored to be doing Me Myself and I, to replace Tyne Daly, who didn't get along with Albee, or vice versa.

[mormonophobic]

Posted: 11/17/08 at 11:59pm

Very excited for the chance to see the phenomenal Miss Turner when I go see to New York this Spring. Especially something so personal (not to her, but I just mean in a smaller, Off-Broadway venue, and not a well-known show/product [like, say, The Graduate]). When do tickets go on sale and do shows like this (I mean in the Lucille Lortel) usually do rushes and/or give discounts? Another thing I wonder is why the Lortel? Mind you I'm not a New Yorker, but this is just so far away from everything. The only reason I even know it is because I have a photo of it from (ashamedly admits) this tour I took when I went to NY for the second time in the same summer. Even though whenever I travel (to New York or anywhere else) I try to not do the touristy things like tours or guided anything, it was a Movie/TV tour which showed us a BUNCH of random places where they filmed stuff (ranging from Enchanted to The Godfather to Seinfeld to Ghostbusters to Ugly Betty to Wait Until Dark to [ashamedly admits, the sequel] ...Gossip Girl.). This was a stone's throw distance from the Friends' Apartment (or at least the exterior for it) and was also the theatre where Joey made his musical debut in Freud! The Musical.

So yeah, sorry for all that but my question is why the Lortel? It just seems like such a small venue and so far away (I walk everywhere, so I'm already trying to decide how I'm going to do that).

[scaryclowns223]

Posted: 11/18/08 at 12:01am

The Lortel is the home of MCC- the company who is putting on the show.

[mormonophobic]

Posted: 11/18/08 at 10:27am

Ohhhhhhh. And suddenly it all makes sense. LoL. Thank you for the answer scaryclowns. :)

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 11/18/08 at 10:32am

Rather, the Lortel is the space MCC currently calls home. They lease it, as do other companies, like Theatreworks.

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 11/18/08 at 11:09am

It's not all that out of the way, either. Just catch a 1 or a 9 train, get off at Christopher Street, head west and you're there. It used to be called the Theatre de Lys, which is where the Off Broadway Threepenny Opera ran for over seven years, setting a record at the time.

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 11/18/08 at 11:19am

Rats. I'm missing this by four freaking days.