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“THE TASTIEST HOMEGROWN
COMEDY OF MANNERS
TO HIT NEW YORK IN YEARS…”
-- Ben Brantley, New York Times
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE’S
TO PLAY THE CORT THEATRE THIS FALL
TOM EVERETT SCOTT, JULIE WHITE,
JOHNNY GALECKI, and ARI GRAYNOR
Star in Acclaimed Comedy
Directed by SCOTT ELLIS
Previews begin Thursday, October 26
Opening Night is Monday, November 13
Douglas Carter Beane’s acclaimed comedy The Little Dog Laughed will play Broadway’s Cort Theatre (138 West 48th street), beginning performances Thursday, October 26, announced lead producer Roy Gabay. Directed by four-time Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis, The Little Dog Laughed will feature Tom Everett Scott, Julie White, Johnny Galecki, and Ari Graynor. Opening night is scheduled for Monday, November 13 at 6:45pm. Tickets are available by calling TeleCharge at 212-239-6200.
Forget all the holier than thou Oscar speeches – what everyone really loves about Hollywood is the down and dirty dish. The players in Douglas Carter Beane’s deliciously biting farce, The Little Dog Laughed, include a screen idol hiding in the closet, an ambitious male prostitute and his naïve girlfriend, and a brash, driven Hollywood agent who can spin anyone and anything. Maybe. Now, darling, do not repeat a word of this, but what I heard is that…
TOM EVERETT SCOTT, currently starring in the TNT series “Saved,” will make his Broadway debut as Mitchell, the rising Hollywood star with a secret. Reprising his role as former party boy and current escort Alex is JOHNNY GALECKI, well known as David from “Roseanne” as well as the film The Opposite of Sex.
And JULIE WHITE, whose universally acclaimed performance in the original Second Stage production of Little Dog was dubbed “an irresistible rush of adrenaline” by The New York Times and “one of the season’s brightest highlights” by the Newark Star-Ledger, will recreate her OBIE Award-winning performance as the driven Hollywood agent Diane. ARI GRAYNOR, who won the Clarence Derwent Award for her Broadway debut in Brooklyn Boy, will play the role of Alex’s naïve girlfriend Ellen.
Directed by Scott Ellis, The Little Dog Laughed opened to rave reviews on January 9th at Second Stage Theatre and quickly became the hottest ticket in town. The play enjoyed a four-week, sold-out extension, closing on February 26 to make way for Second Stage’s subsequent production.
Ben Brantley of The New York Times calls the play “THE TASTIEST HOMEGROWN COMEDY OF MANNERS TO HIT NEW YORK IN YEARS -- a tangy new fable of fame and its discontents, with an expressly theatrical energy that finds the verbal music and rhythm in Hollywood-style hypocrisy.” Mike Kuchwara of the Associated Press calls the comedy “SCATHING, SCABROUS, AND HILARIOUS! Directed at high-speed velocity by Scott Ellis, it makes you laugh while it goes for the jugular.” Michael Sommers of The Star-Ledger dubs the play “WICKEDLY FUNNY!” and Jess Cagle of WCBS-TV/People Magazine praises The Little Dog Laughed as “THE FUNNIEST PLAY IN TOWN! GOOD, NAUGHTY, LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUN!”
The Little Dog Laughed is being produced by Roy Gabay and Susan Dietz in association with Second Stage Theatre.
The Little Dog Laughed will have set design by Allen Moyer; costume design by Jeff Mahshie; lighting design by Donald Holder; and original music by Lewis Flinn.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
TOM EVERETT SCOTT is currently the star of the new TNT series “Saved.” He first gained attention as a regular on the ABC series Grace Under Fire and went on to make his big screen debut in 1996 in the Tom Hanks-helmed That Thing You Do!. His other film credits include An American Werewolf in Paris, One Dog Day, Dead Man on Campus, One True Thing, River Red, The Love Letter, Boiler Room and Attraction, and the upcoming Universal feature Because I Said So (February, 2007). After Attraction, Scott returned to series television, headlining the short-lived series The $treet and Philly. He recently appeared as recurring character Eric Wyczenski, the manic depressive brother of main character Abby Lockhart, on ER. In 2003, he starred alongside David Schwimmer and Jonathan Silverman in Roger Kumble's Turnaround at the Coast Playhouse in West Hollywood, and earlier this year he appeared in Dead End at L.A.’s Ahmanson Theater. His other theatrical credits include the Women’s Project’s production of Toni Press-Coffman's Touch and the Drama Dept. production of Douglas Carter Beane's The Country Club. This is his Broadway debut.
JULIE WHITE received an OBIE Award as well as Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama League nominations for her performance in The Little Dog Laughed. She has appeared on Broadway in The Heidi Chronicles and off-Broadway in Spike Heels and The Family of Mann (both at Second Stage Theatre); Fiction (Roundabout, Drama League nomination), Bad Dates (Playwrights Horizons), Dinner With Friends (Variety Arts), Barbra’s Wedding (Westside Arts) and three short plays for the Tribeca Theater Festival. Other theatre credits include Expecting Isabel, Gun Play, Bad Dates (Elliot Norton Award). She appeared as Nadine Swaboda for several seasons of “Grace Under Fire” and recently appeared on “Desperate Housewives.” Other television work includes “Six Feet Under” as Mitzi Dalton Huntley, “The Heidi Chronicles” as Fran. Films include Say It Isn’t So, What Women Want, Slap Her She’s French, Sunday on the Rocks, fleetingly in War of the Worlds and upcoming in The Astronaut Farmer.
JOHNNY GALECKI created the role of Alex in the Second Stage Theatre production of The Little Dog Laughed. Previous theatre credits include The Drawer Boy and Pot Mom (Steppenwolf Theatre), Galileo (Goodman Theatre), The Member of the Wedding (Stage Left Theatre, Joseph Jefferson nomination), along with many other Chicago productions. Film: Happy Endings, Chrystal, Bookies, Vanilla Sky, Bounce, Playing Mona Lisa, The Opposite of Sex, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Suicide Kings. Television credits include “My Name is Earl,” “Hope and Faith,” and “Roseanne.” This is his Broadway debut.
ARI GRAYNOR made her Broadway debut in Brooklyn Boy, for which she received the Clarence Derwent Award for Most Promising Female Performer. She can also be seen in three highly anticipated films in the next several months: For Your Consideration, Turn the River, and An American Crime, opposite Catherine Keener. Ms. Graynor’s theatre credits include Dog Sees God, Spanish Girl (Second Stage Theatre); Fall (world premiere), Into the Woods (dir. Oskar Eustis), both at Trinity Rep; Ah, Wilderness! (Huntington Theatre); and King Lear (The Company of Women with Kristin Linklater), among others. TV credits include “The Sopranos” (recurring role as Meadow Sopranos’ Columbia roommate), “Law & Order: SVU.” Film: Mystic River (dir. Clint Eastwood), Book of Love (Sundance 2004), Bereft (Tribeca 2004), The Great New Wonderful, Game 6 (co-starring Robert Downey Jr. and Michael Keaton).
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE’s plays include As Bees in Honey Drown (Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Playwriting Award, Drama Desk Best Play nom.), The Country Club (L.A. Times Critics’ Choice & Drama-Logue awards), The Big Time, Music From a Sparkling Planet, Mondo Drama, Advice From a Caterpillar (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination) and White Lies. His screenplays include To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar and Advice From a Caterpillar (Best Film, Aspen Comedy Fest; Best Feature, Toyota Comedy Fest.).
SCOTT ELLIS’ Broadway directing credits include Twelve Angry Men (Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations), The Boys From Syracuse, The Man Who Had All the Luck, 1776 (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Tony Award nominations), Steel Pier (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Tony Award nominations), She Loves Me (Drama Desk and Tony Award nominations, Outer Circle Critics Circle Award, Olivier Award for London production), Picnic, A Month in the Country, A Little Night Music and Company. Off-Broadway: The Waverly Gallery; The Dog Problem; Flora, The Red Menace; Dark Rapture; That Championship Season; The World Goes ’Round…The Songs of Kander and Ebb; and 100° (Drama Desk Award). Other credits include Dedication, Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall and The Leading Ladies of Broadway (televised on “Great Performances”). Mr. Ellis is the Associate Artistic Director of the Roundabout Theatre Company and is currently in L.A. directing the Kander and Ebb musical Curtains.
The Little Dog Laughed will be performed on the following schedule: Tuesday – Saturday at 8pm, Wednesday and Saturday at 2pm, and Sunday at 3pm. Tickets are priced $26.25 (balcony and rear boxes, all performances), $86.25 (orchestra and mezzanine, Tues – Thurs at 8pm, Wed and Sat at 2pm, Sun at 3pm), and $96.25 (orchestra and mezzanine, Fri and Sat at 8pm). Ticket prices include a $1.25 facilities fee.