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About the Play
A hilarious send up of theatre by award-winning playwright Terrance McNally.
Story:
It’s the opening night of The Golden Egg on Broadway, and the wealthy producer Julia Budder is throwing a lavish party in her lavish Manhattan townhouse. Downstairs the celebrities are pouring in, but the real action is upstairs in the bedroom, where a group of insiders have staked themselves out to await the reviews. The group includes the excitable playwright; the possibly unstable wunderkind director; the pill-popping leading lady, treading the boards after becoming infamous in Hollywood; and the playwright’s best friend, for whom the play was written but who passed up this production for a television series. Add to this a drama critic who’s panned the playwright in the past and a new-in-town aspiring singer, and you have a prime recipe for the narcissism, ambition, childishness, and just plain irrationality that infuse the theatre—and for comedy. But don’t worry: This play is sure to be the hit they have all been hoping for.
Broadway Premiere
- Theatre
- Gerald Schoenfeld Theater
- Opening Night
- Oct 9, 2014
- Total Performances
- 247
- Original Cast
- Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, F. Murray Abraham, Stockard Channing, Rupert Grint, Megan Mullally, Micah Stock
- Director
- Jack O’Brien
- Producer
- Tom Kirdahy, Roy Furman, Ken Davenport, Hunter Arnold, Morris Berchard and Susan Dietz, Caiola Productions, Carl Daikeler, Jim Fantaci, Wendy Federman, Barbara Freitag and Loraine Alterman Boyle, Hugh Hayes, Jim Herbert, Ricardo F. Hornos, Stephanie Kramer, LAMS Productions, Scott Landis, Mark Lee & Ed Filipowski, Harold Newman, Roy Putrino, Sanford Robertson, Tom Smedes and Peter Stern and Brian Cromwell Smith
- Scenic Design
- Scott Pask
- Costume Design
- Ann Roth
- Lighting Design
- Philip Rosenberg
- Sound Design
- Fitz Patton
Scripts, Videos, Merchandise and More
2015 Tony Award Nominations
Best Performance By An Actor In A Featured Role In A Play - Micah Stock
2015 Drama Desk Award Nominations
Outstanding Featured Actor In A Play - F. Murray Abraham
2015 Theatre World Award Nominations
Micah Stock
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