The Tony-winning revival from Second State Theater will open Oct. 27 on the Schoenfeld Theatre.
Second Stage Theater’s Tony-winning revival of Take Me Out is coming again to Broadway.
Winner of greatest revival of a play on the 2022 Tony Awards, the story about how a staff, and the world, reply to a fictional main league baseball participant popping out will return for a second restricted run on the Schoenfeld Theatre, opening on Oct. 27.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams will reprise their roles within the play, written by Richard Greenberg and directed by Scott Ellis. The play scored 4 Tony nominations general for its prolonged restricted run, which opened this previous spring.
Williams, who was nominated at this 12 months’s Tony Awards for featured actor in a play, stars as Darren Flemming, a homosexual, biracial star participant who decides to publicly share his orientation. Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who received the Tony for featured actor, performs Darren’s out homosexual enterprise supervisor who slowly comes to grasp, and finally, fall in love with the sport.
The remainder of the solid for the 14-week restricted engagement can be introduced at a later date.
“Second Stage’s Tony Award-winning manufacturing was one of the buzzed about performs of the spring season, and its restricted run was too transient to seize the curiosity and demand for tickets,” stated producer Barry Weissler. “After being huge followers when the play premiered again in 2004, we had been struck by how related and well timed it continues to be. Richard Greenberg brilliantly makes use of the lens of America’s favourite pastime to show and discover the prejudices that divide us, however he strikes the proper steadiness, managing to entertain in addition to enlighten.”
The play formally opened on April 4, following an almost two-year delay resulting from Broadway’s pandemic shutdown. It additionally sparked a dialogue about actors’ onstage security and audiences’ respect of present insurance policies after somebody defied Second Stage’s Yondr pouch requirement and revealed a photograph of Williams throughout one of many play’s nude scenes on-line. The theater elevated safety, amongst different efforts, following the incident.