Administrative Offices 161 Sixth Avenue, 14th Fl 8 TheACTORS COMPANY THEATRE New York, NY 10013 Winter Newsletter 212 645-TACT(8228) 2003/2004 212 255-2053(fax) COMPANY NEWS continued from page 6 www.TACTnyc.org [email protected] tact books: Mostly Harmless and So Long and Thanks anything ... just throwing a 3 year old’s birthday will air in January. He spent the holidays with 2 for All the Fish. party, Hanukkah dinner for the whole family, parents, 2 siblings, their mates, 2 nieces, 2 TACTICS is published TheACTORS COMPANYtactics THEATRE NEWSLETTER twice yearly Larry Keith is currently playing in Tony AND Christmas Eve and Christmas day also for dogs...in his parents 2 bedroom condo on Ft. Vol. 11 No.2 Winter 2003/04 Kushner’s Caroline, or Change at The Public the whole family.” Go home and kiss your Myers Beach. All they were missing was the par- Theater directed by George C. Wolfe. Industry Moms, folks! tridge in the pear tree! scuttlebutt has it that the production may be James Murtaugh and his wife, Alice, graciously Jonathan Smith continues to play the Broadway tact Coming in January! moving to Broadway. Before it does, join the hosted TACT’s annual Holiday Shindig. A good hit, Thoroughly Modern Millie. TheACTORS COMPANY THEATRE There is only one th TACT Theatre Party on January 29 and see time was had by all! James recently shot an David Staller played Higgins again in My Fair Scott Alan Evans, Cynthia Harris & Simon Jones Co-Artistic Directors the show and speak with the cast while it’s still episode of Hope and Faith on ABC starring Kelly Lady which broke box office records at The TACT. in the intimate Newman Theatre at the Public. Ripa and Faith Ford. He played Faith’s father-in- Fulton in PA. David’s also been doing “lots of COMPANY TheGoodSoup Sean Arbuckle, Mary Bacon, Jamie (For more info see page 3). law. Check your local listings... voice overs for incredibly obscure organiza- Bennett, Simon Billig, Nora Chester, [La bonne soupe] There is only one Jack Koenig recently shot an episode of every- Margaret Nichols returns from San Francisco, tions”. He portrayed the evil villain with the heart Cynthia Darlow, Francesca Di Mauro, by Felicien Marceau body’s favorite NY show, Law & Order. where she has been performing the role of Petra of tarnished gold in The Streets of New York at the Kyle Fabel, Richard Ferrone, Delphi Sat. Jan 24 @ 7:30 Sun. Jan 25 @ 2:00 Darrie Lawrence is at the Repertory Theater of in A Little Night Music at the Post Street Theatre Westport Playhouse under the winning direction Harrington, Larry Keith, Jack Koenig, Adapted by Garson Kanin BROADWAY. Darrie Lawrence, Greg McFadden, Eve St. Louis playing Emily Brent in Ten Little Indians. to much acclaim. She’ll be back in town in time of Charlotte Moore. He wore a beard. After Mon. Jan 26 @ 7:30 at the Florence Gould Hall to playing a leading role in The Good Soup for years of playing Nazis David finally got the Michelson, James Murtaugh, Margaret Although she turns out not to be the one who did Nichols, Nancy Opel, John Plumpis, 55 East 59th St it, word is Darrie (a.k.a. the “hideous Emily TACT in January. chance to play a Jew, a strict sectarian Hasidic There is only one Rebbe in Jeremy Keraken’s new play Farblondjet James Prendergast, Gregory Salata, he Good Soup is the story of Marie-Paule, a woman of uncommon abil- Brent”) gets lots of votes at the informal inter- James Prendergast continues to travel the globe Scott Schafer, David Staller, Jenn for the Epic Repertory Theatre Company, at the ity. We first encounter her by the roulette wheel of a Monte Carlo casi- mission audience vote, making her TACT family doing business theatre industrials. Thompson, Lynn Wright DR2 Theatre on 15th Street. He wore a beard in Tno, recounting her long, illustrious (if slightly immoral) career. As she very proud! EMERITUS John Plumpis continues to play Timon the this one, too. David recently completed shoot- reminisces, she quite literally brings her past to life - her younger self (Marie- Ryan Bowker, Maia Danziger,Paul Paule II) appears and we watch the unique evolution of this woman from poor Greg McFadden spent the holidays with his new Meercat in the National Tour of The Lion King. ing the film Missed Opportunities in which he Hecht, Jo-Ann Salata, bride, choreographer Shannon Hummel, with The tour will be in Pittsburgh 1/9-2/15, plays a NY psychiatrist...without a beard. He will shop girl to courtesan to prosperous businesswoman to respectable wife… ADJUNCT COMPANY family in Houston. Indianapolis 2/20-3/28, and Detroit 4/2-5/30. soon shoot a new film called 5 Up 2 Down in well, almost respectable. There are steady stream of lovers, husbands, and Francys O. Burch, Dawn Dunlop, dupes who both foot the bill and create obstacles for her desires. And what Eve Michelson took a little break after her mem- Stop by and tell John how much we miss him which he plays a Soho gallery owner. He’s still Jonathan Faiman, Mary Louise Geiger, here at TACT if he’s in a city near you. waiting for decision on a beard. David was in David Macdonald, Yuzuru Sadashige, does she desire? Love? Sex? Money? No. Just that most elusive jackpot: orable performance in TACT’s season opener, The Good Soup… The Marriage of Bette and Boo. She described a Scott Schafer played Adolf Hitler on an episode TACT’s recent Fathers and Sons playing Pavel, Jonathan Smith, David Toser, Joseph Trapasso Felicien Marceau’s play takes all the hilarity of French bedroom farce quiet week at home this way: “I’m not doing of Dave Chapelle’s Show on Comedy Central. It complete with fez. His Abyssinian cat, AND FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY THE Pywacket, send regards to everyone. BOARD OF DIRECTORS and roots it in the tough world of realism with a bittersweet tone and a slight- Stephen Lindenmuth, Chairman, Joel ly sad mischievousness that is all so very very French. Marceau, whose real RICH TRADITIONS OF EACH WILL Benenson, Patricia Dugan, Laurily name was Louis Carette, was Belgian born, but became a French citizen and INTERTWINE TO CREATE A NEW Epstein, Holly Etlin, Joseph Gitto, later a member of the renowned French Academy. Originally a novelist and PAGE IN THEATRE HISTORY! Norman Kantor, Gail Levenstein, essayist, Marceau was in his forties before he began writing for the stage. Melissa Mulrooney, Susan Mindel, One of his earliest plays, The Egg (1956), was a huge success in Paris. It was Join us for a never-to-be-repeated per- Joan Blackett Schlank, Sandy Sojka, quickly followed by The Good Soup in 1957 in a production starring Jeanne formance of BROADWAY MUSICAL David Wilson Moreau and Marie Bell. MAGIC and another glittering evening GENERAL MANAGER Kate Ross TACT is presenting, for the first time since its original production on added to the lore of this famous theatri- Broadway in 1960, an adaptation of the play by Garson Kanin. Mr. Kanin is, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR cal haunt. Scott Alan Evans of course, the gifted playwright and director who applied his talents to both See the rest of the the of rest the See PRESS REPRESENTATIVES the stage and the screen (Born Yesterday, Adam’s Rib). Kanin also directed the New York production of The Good Soup, which starred his wife, Ruth SAVE THE DATE S Origlio PR PECIAL TACT EVELOPMENT ANAGER 3 P 3 D M season and SAVE! and season TACT SEASON continued on page 7 Monday, A SUBSCRIPTION LAY Jennifer Clarke ATTORNEY March 29, 2004 Debevoise & Plimpton O FFER Nicole Soffin (see pg. 2 for details) I NSIDE Company News TACT is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organiza- tion and a member of the Alliance of New Board Member: The Board of Directors of TACT is Resident Theatres /New York extremely pleased to announce the addition of Melissa It’s not too late! Hitchens Mulrooney to the TACT Board. Melissa is a high- ly accomplished cultural arts and communications profes- Winter News 2003/04 News Winter Don’t miss out on sional with expertise in marketing , fundraising, and admin- istrations. Of course, she has a great love of theater in gen- the rest of our season! 10013 tact eral and of TACT in particular. She has run capital cam- 1. takt; 2. taet, n. Melissa Mulrooney paigns and other fundraising and marketing projects for the 3 Play Subscription* e ok NY York, New dedicated to presenting Museum of Arts and Design, Chess-In-The-Schools, the Only $55! International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum and the Delaware Art Museum. 14th Floor 14th neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit with an empha- In addition, she teaches in the Masters Program for Visual Arts Take advantage of our Special 3 Play Administration at New York University. We are thrilled to welcome her to the 161 Sixth Avenue Avenue Sixth 161 sis on creating theatre from its Subscription and enjoy the remaining three essence: the text and the actor’s company. plays of the season at a significant savings. THEATRE ability to bring it to life. Sean Arbuckle finished his second season with the Stratford Festival in Subscribing Members of TACT also enjoy Neglected or rarely produced: adj. phrase. Ontario and then stayed on in Canada to play The Man in a two-person adap- preferred seating and very flexible ticket COMPANY not seen in a first-class production in NYC tation of The Turn of the Screw at the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario before exchange policies.