Hayes stars as Oscar Levant in a brand new play analyzing the value of fame.
Sean Hayes will return to Broadway in a brand new play concerning the lifetime of actor and pianist Oscar Levant.
In Good Evening, Oscar, written by Doug Wright, Hayes performs Levant, who's booked on Jack Paar’s The Tonight Present in a 90-minute session that delights viewers members, but additionally comes at a price for the star.
Directed by Lisa Peterson, Good Evening, Oscar will play a 20-week engagement on the Belasco Theatre beginning April 7, 2023. Opening evening is about for April 24. The play involves Broadway after a premiere at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.
“Although he’s considerably forgotten by right this moment’s audiences, Oscar Levant was a startling phenomenon in his personal time; following a stellar live performance and film profession, he turned a celebrated pundit, holding forth on the chat reveals of the 1950’s. A superb, usually searing raconteur, he was the primary celeb to supply up his private demons for the sake of leisure. Repeatedly, Oscar challenged our notions concerning the acceptable boundaries of comedy, and — in doing so — revealed the psychic prices of providing up one’s life for public consumption,” Wright stated.
Hayes, identified for his position as Jack on Will & Grace, returns to Broadway after beforehand showing within the 2016 one-man present, An Act of God, and within the 2010 revival of Guarantees, Guarantees.
“I’m thrilled for Broadway audiences to expertise Good Evening, Oscar. Oscar Levant was a multi-faceted pioneer, from live performance pianist to notorious raconteur. It’s an honor to be portraying one in every of my heroes,” Hayes stated.
Further solid members embody Emily Bergl (The Ferryman) as June Levant; Peter Grosz (Veep) as community government Bob Sarnoff; Ben Rappaport (Fiddler on the Roof) as Paar; and John Zdrojeski (Off-Broadway’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning) as George Gershwin. Further casting shall be introduced at a later date.
Good Evening, Oscar is produced on Broadway by Grove Leisure (Beth Williams, Mindy Wealthy), Barbara Whitman, Hazy Mills Productions, Yonge Road Theatricals and Frank Marshall.
The artistic staff consists of set design by Rachel Hauck, costume design by Emilio Sosa, lighting design by Ben Stanton andCarolina Ortiz Herrera, and sound design by Andre Pluess.