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Posted: 1/25/06 at 1:31pm
Riedel's column:
"THE New York Post is the inspiration for a new play that Sarah Jessica Parker hopes to star in on Broadway — possibly opposite her husband, Matthew Broderick.
The two-character comedy, called "Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost, Too," is about a husband-and-wife gossip columnist team working for a New York City tabloid that's "very proudly owned by an Australian," said the play's author, Douglas Carter Beane.
"I have no idea who that could be," he added with a laugh.
Parker took part in a staged reading of the play Monday that was attended by a select group of Broadway insiders.
Although Tony Award-winning actor Alan Cumming played opposite her at the reading, it's no secret around Broadway that ever since "Sex and the City" went off the air, Parker has been hunting for a play for her and her husband.
She's been saying to producers and theater owners, 'Find us a play!,' " said a theater executive.
"Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost, Too" just might fit the bill.
People who attended the reading said the play is a sophisticated, urban comedy in which the couple fire off snappy lines the way Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn did in the classic newspaper movie, "Woman of the Year."
"It's really just an opportunity for two actors to be on stage together and bounce words off each other," said Beane, whose plays include "As Bees in Honey Drown" and the current Off Broadway hit, "The Little Dog Laughed."
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"THE New York Post is the inspiration for a new play that Sarah Jessica Parker hopes to star in on Broadway — possibly opposite her husband, Matthew Broderick.
The two-character comedy, called "Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost, Too," is about a husband-and-wife gossip columnist team working for a New York City tabloid that's "very proudly owned by an Australian," said the play's author, Douglas Carter Beane.
"I have no idea who that could be," he added with a laugh.
Parker took part in a staged reading of the play Monday that was attended by a select group of Broadway insiders.
Although Tony Award-winning actor Alan Cumming played opposite her at the reading, it's no secret around Broadway that ever since "Sex and the City" went off the air, Parker has been hunting for a play for her and her husband.
She's been saying to producers and theater owners, 'Find us a play!,' " said a theater executive.
"Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost, Too" just might fit the bill.
People who attended the reading said the play is a sophisticated, urban comedy in which the couple fire off snappy lines the way Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn did in the classic newspaper movie, "Woman of the Year."
"It's really just an opportunity for two actors to be on stage together and bounce words off each other," said Beane, whose plays include "As Bees in Honey Drown" and the current Off Broadway hit, "The Little Dog Laughed."
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