Mullally & Oswalt to Star in McNally's Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Opens April 2010
#2
Posted: 12/22/09 at 11:36am
What a great vehicle for Megan. This is smart casting. Here's hoping Roundabout doesn't eff it up.
#3
Posted: 12/22/09 at 11:46am
Is there any crying need for this to be done again? I'm sure Mullally and Oswalk could find something more worthy of revival. I saw it first go-round, it was okay, but why?
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#4
Posted: 12/22/09 at 11:50am
With both Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally on Broadway this coming Spring 2010... all we need now is Debra Messing and Eric McCormick to be added to the cast of other Broadway shows (new or old) and there's our semi-WILL & GRACE reunion. 
#5
Posted: 12/22/09 at 11:59am
Sam Truman...Will's brother...ah, the things you think of when you're bored at work.
#6
Posted: 12/22/09 at 12:38pm
For my money, its McNally's best work. And it hasn't been produced in NY since the beginning of the nineties. Mantello and Mullally should both be perfect fits.
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#7
Posted: 12/22/09 at 2:34pm
Brody, that is EXACTLY what I was thinking! haha. How awesome would that be? If Eric ended up doing Birdie, then we might've had three out of the four and only needed Debra. But I'm happy for Sean and Megan.
Anyways, I'm really excited to see this. I missed Megan in Young Frankenstein so I'm looking forward to seeing her on stage in this.
Anyways, I'm really excited to see this. I missed Megan in Young Frankenstein so I'm looking forward to seeing her on stage in this.
#8
Posted: 12/22/09 at 2:43pm
For once, Mantello is perfectly cast.
#9
Posted: 12/22/09 at 3:12pm
I am a BIG fan of Patton's! I hope I can see this!
#10
Posted: 12/22/09 at 3:29pm
Love the play...love this casting...I just hope the show stays on the path it's already headed down and then it might turn out to be a great production.
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#11
Posted: 12/22/09 at 3:45pm
Yeah, geez, I would be clamoring to pay cash money to see Debra Messing in, um, ah... absolutely nothing. Perhaps a revival of Wildcat that would close in previews?
#12
Posted: 12/22/09 at 3:47pm
Wow what a wonderful treat!
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#13
Posted: 12/22/09 at 3:48pm
fantastic. another show I want to see come the spring. So many shows, so little money.
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#14
Posted: 12/22/09 at 3:51pm
Thanks to BrodyFosse for posting that picture of Eric (swoon!)
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#15
I <3 Patton
Posted: 12/22/09 at 4:17pm
I <3 Patton
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#16
Posted: 12/24/09 at 5:58pm
It would be great to see all four cast members in a Broadway production. Sean and Megan are going to be doing their limited run plays/musicals in 2010 and it would be fantastic to see both Eric and Debra in something too in 2010.
Eric and Debra are the most theatrical trained, with Eric in Canada in his extensive education and Debra at NYU's Masters Program in Acting. Both have higher degrees in theater so to say that Debra could not pull it off do not have any idea on her background in theater and where her roots in acting started from with NYU's graduate acting program. I think that some envy her extensive acting background and the same for Eric. Both have great voices (especially Eric) and Debra has the Masters Degree in acting and has done some theater overseas too.
Do not underestimate Debra Messing. She is doing great with her humanitarian work with HIV/Aids in Africa as an ambassador and all of her other charitable contributions to the world, in addition to her film and television work.
Eric does alot with cancer, due to his mothers death to cancer, and he is doing really well with mini-series work, film roles, and his re-curring role in The New Adventures of Old Christine, on television. His role as Julia Louis Dreyfus therapist is great.
All four cast members have so many project going on with Sean and his production company and getting projects with TV Land Channel, among others too. And reading film scripts along with alot of other things going on.
Megan will be fine in this project as a limited run thing. ALL four cast members are remaining VERY CLOSE and keep the contact strong and stable. That is a rare gift and such an amazing thing for them to be tightly knit with each other and the love and care for each other. What a real blessing it must be for them to have this amazing closeness for each other.
I wish that there could be a way for all of them to do a WAG film.
Eric and Debra are the most theatrical trained, with Eric in Canada in his extensive education and Debra at NYU's Masters Program in Acting. Both have higher degrees in theater so to say that Debra could not pull it off do not have any idea on her background in theater and where her roots in acting started from with NYU's graduate acting program. I think that some envy her extensive acting background and the same for Eric. Both have great voices (especially Eric) and Debra has the Masters Degree in acting and has done some theater overseas too.
Do not underestimate Debra Messing. She is doing great with her humanitarian work with HIV/Aids in Africa as an ambassador and all of her other charitable contributions to the world, in addition to her film and television work.
Eric does alot with cancer, due to his mothers death to cancer, and he is doing really well with mini-series work, film roles, and his re-curring role in The New Adventures of Old Christine, on television. His role as Julia Louis Dreyfus therapist is great.
All four cast members have so many project going on with Sean and his production company and getting projects with TV Land Channel, among others too. And reading film scripts along with alot of other things going on.
Megan will be fine in this project as a limited run thing. ALL four cast members are remaining VERY CLOSE and keep the contact strong and stable. That is a rare gift and such an amazing thing for them to be tightly knit with each other and the love and care for each other. What a real blessing it must be for them to have this amazing closeness for each other.
I wish that there could be a way for all of them to do a WAG film.
#17
Posted: 12/24/09 at 7:10pm
Debra Messing is one of my favorite comediannes, she's great. I think she'd have been wonderful as Karen Weston in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (hoping she gets cast in the film version as unlikely as that is).
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#18
Posted: 12/24/09 at 8:55pm
People also forget that Debra Messing created the role of Harper in the earliest readings of Tony Kushner's ANGELS IN AMERICA (and was apparently brilliant.)
Her theatrical chops are quite legitimate.
Her theatrical chops are quite legitimate.
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.
#19
Posted: 12/24/09 at 10:37pm
Wow, somethingwicked, I had absolutely no idea. I'd love to see her take on Harper. Not surprised to hear she was brilliant, it seems at odds with her current persona, but I can see her being able to master Kushner's brilliant way of intertwining humor and drama. I can so imagine her saying some of my favorite Harper lines: "Ridiculous" or "Do homos take like a lot of walks?"
How I wish I had a time machine. Thanks for that info, somethingwicked, that makes me want to see Messing on Broadway even more.
How I wish I had a time machine. Thanks for that info, somethingwicked, that makes me want to see Messing on Broadway even more.
"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"
#20
Posted: 12/25/09 at 1:25am
She was Harper at NYU, where Part Two: Perestroika was first produced in a production by Michael Mayer. And Roy was Ben Shenkman.
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