A non-public presentation subsequent month of a brand new Broadway-bound manufacturing of Douglas Carter Beane’s Tony-nominated 2006 play The Little Canine Laughed will characteristic Luke Macfarlane and Cooper Koch, with costars together with Billy Porter.
The presentation will likely be held Wednesday, March 4, in New York Metropolis. Sheryl Kaller directs. The placement to the invitation-only presentation was not disclosed.
The comedy about Hollywood stardom and its prices was first produced on Broadway in 2006, with Tom Everett Scott, in his Broadway debut, as Mitchell, a rising (and closeted) film star, and Johnny Galecki as Alex, a male escort with whom Mitchell develops a secret relationship. Within the authentic manufacturing, Julie White performed Mitchell’s agent, successful a 2007 Tony Award for the efficiency.
Billy Porter
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For the upcoming studying, the agent position has been revised and can star Porter. The position of Ellen, the escort’s girlfriend, was performed within the authentic manufacturing by Ari Graynor and was to have been carried out by Ella Stiller within the upcoming presentation, however The Comeback actor needed to drop out resulting from a scheduling battle. A alternative for the Ellen position will likely be introduced.
Macfarlane has appeared on TV in Brothers and Sisters, Platonic and Shifting Gears, on movie in Bros, and on Broadway in The Regular Coronary heart. Koch is greatest identified for his portrayal of killer Erik Menendez in 2024’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, and on movie in They/Them). Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award winner Billy Porter has appeared on Broadway in Kinky Boots, Shuffle Alongside and Cabaret, and on TV in Pose.
Producers are Barbara Manocherian, Tom Smedes, Roy Gabay and Chris Burney.
A Broadway manufacturing timeline has not been launched.
