Logan Marshall-Green replaces previously announced Paul Rudd — and Piper Perabo joins the cast — of the MCC Theater reading of Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things June 23.
Original cast member Rudd was announced to reprise his Off-Broadway turn for the reading, but will not be available to perform “due to a last-minute schedule change,” an announcement states.
Carolyn Cantor directs the reading also featuring Anna Camp (The Country Girl, The Scene) and Austin Lysy (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Water’s Edge).
This reading of The Shape of Things is presented in conjunction with the current run of LaBute’s reasons to be pretty. The series — which began with a June 9 reading of Fat Pig — spotlights the scribe’s trilogy “exploring America’s obsession with physical beauty.”
Original director Jo Bonney staged the Fat Pig reading with original star Ashlie Atkinson as well as Steven Pasquale and Jessica Capshaw for the.
The readings take place at 7 PM at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, currently the home to reasons to be pretty.
Piper Perabo, Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski and Pablo Schreiber star in pretty. Terry Kinney directed the production, which plays through July 5.
Premium reserved seats for the readings are available now for donors who make a $100 contribution by calling MCC’s Development Department at (212) 727-7722 ext. 233.
A limited number of general admission tickets ($20) will go on sale May 27 through mcctheater.com. or by calling (212) 279-4200.
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Reasons to be Pretty will be moving on to Broadway. The play will get his Broadway debut next winter when Reasons to be Pretty transfers to the Great White Way. Performances will begin on February 13, 2009, at a theater to be announced.
Also, the site Broadway.com has a cool Q&A with Piper, talking about her debut at stage (she hadn’t done a play since her graduation, 10 years ago) and her impressions about Reasons to be Pretty. It worth a read… Read more… »
I just found this pictures from latest night, which “Reasons to be Pretty” has its launch on Broadway. Piper was SO happy, with a huge small on her face. Check it:
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Piper Perabo on ‘Reasons to Be Pretty,’ E-mailing Neil LaBute, and Living at the Y
It’s been eight years since Piper Perabo shimmied onto the radar with her breakout performance in Coyote Ugly, and since then, her career has focused on romantic comedies (Because I Said So, Cheaper by the Dozen, Imagine You & Me). Earlier this month, she signed on to an ABC pilot, The Prince of Motor City, but before she moves from big screen to small, she’s taking a brief break from the cameras. In Neil LaBute’s reasons to be pretty, opening tonight from MCC Theater, Perabo makes her New York stage debut as a graveyard-shift security guard dealing with relationship issues (her own and her friends’). She spoke with Vulture about LaBute, her new TV show, and her (decidedly un-barfly-ish) new cropped do. Read more… »
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