A Confederacy of Dunces, Starring Nick Offerman, Eyes Broadway Transfer

We told you that this comedy was one to watch! The Nick Offerman-led comedy A Confederacy of Dunces, which recently ran at the Huntington Theatre in Boston, is eyeing a run either in London or another U.S. city before transferring to the Great White Way. The New York Daily News reports that the production has now reached the "fine-tuning" stage.

Directed by David Esbjornson and adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by John Kennedy Toole, Offerman stars as the larger-than-life character Ignatius J. Reilly: overweight, arrogant, eccentric, and still living with his mother Irene in 1960s New Orleans. Called the Don Quixote of the French Quarter, Ignatius has a singular outlook on life. His farcical odyssey includes a riot in a department store and a raid on a strip club, and stints working at a pants factory and as a hot dog vendor.

The Boston cast also included Anita Gillette, Philip James Brannon, Arnie Burton, Stephanie DiMaggio, Lonnie Farmer, Julie Halston, Paul Melendy, Talene Monahon, Ed Peed, Steve Rosen, Lusia Strus and Stacey Yen.