Read all about it! The complete cast is set for the Broadway revival of Ben Hect and Charles MacArthur's The Front Page. The previously announced lineup is already headline worthy: Nathan Lane as Walter Burns, John Slattery as Hildy Johnson, John Goodman as Sheriff Hartman, Jefferson Mays as Bensinger, Sherie Rene Scott as Mollie Malloy and Christopher McDonald as Murphy. A host of stage and screen favorites will join them; rounding out the cast are Holland Taylor, Robert Morse, Dylan Baker, Patricia Conolly, Halley Feiffer, Dann Florek, John Magaro, Danny Mastrogiorgio, David Pittu, Joey Slotnick, Lewis J. Stadlen, Micah Stock and Clarke Thorell.
Tickets are now available for the Jack O'Brien-helmed production, which will begin performances on September 20 at the Broadhurst Theatre, where it will open officially on October 20 and play a limited engagement through February 5, 2017.
Taylor, who will play Mrs. Grant, recently toured the country playing Ann Richards in the solo show Ann, which she also wrote. Her performance in the show on Broadway earned her a Tony nomination. She has also appeared on the Great White Way in Something Old, Something New, We Interrupt This Program and Butley. Her screen credits include The Practice (for which she won an Emmy), Two and a Half Men, The Truman Show and Legally Blonde. Morse will take on the role of Mr. Pincus; he won Tony Awards for his performances in Tru and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. His additional credits include Mad Men, for which he received four Emmy nominations, and Sugar and The Matchmaker on stage.
Baker will play McCue; he last appeared on Broadway in The Audience and earned a Tony nomination for La Bête. Conolly, who takes on the role of Jennie, has Broadway credits that include Is He Dead?, Enchanted April, Waiting in the Wings, The Sound of Music, The Coast of Utopia and Hedda Gabler. Feiffer returns to the stage to play Peggy Grant after appearing in The House of Blue Leaves. In addition to performing, she is also a playwright; her dark comedy A Funny Thing Happened... is now playing at MCC. Florek is most known for his long-running stint as Captain Craken on Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU; in The Front Page, he'll play the Mayor. Magaro will make his Broadway debut as Earl Williams in the play. He will also appear in the upcoming Woody Allen Amazon series and Netflix's War Machine. Mastrogiorgio, who's set to play Diamond Louis, has appeared on Broadway in Rocky, Lucky Guy, Golden Boy and Contact. Pittu is a Tony nominee for LoveMusik and Is He Dead?. Here, he'll take on the role of Schwartz. Slotnick, who will play Wilson, is most known for his roles on Boston Public and The Single Guy. Stadlen last appeared on Broadway in Fish in the Dark and will play Endicott. Stock, who's been tapped to play Woodenshoes Eichorn, made his Broadway debut last year in another show filled with all-stars: It's Only a Play. His performance earned him a Tony nomination.
The previously reported Rosemary Harris will not appear in the production.
The Front Page follows tabloid newspaper reporters on the police beat. When reporter Slattery and his editor Burns discover a runaway convict in the midst of a buzzing press room at Chicago's Criminal Courts Building, they conspire to hide him and keep the scoop for themselves. The comedy has been revived on Broadway four times since its 1928 debut, most recently by Lincoln Center Theater in a 1986 mounting that starred John Lithgow and Richard Thomas.
The new production will feature set design by Douglas W. Schmidt, costumes by Ann Roth, lighting design by Brian MacDevitt and sound design by Scott Lehrer.