Christine Ebersole, Matthew Broderick, Tovah Feldshuh & More Set for Industry Reading of THE POETS OF AMITYVILLE

By: Mar. 07, 2016
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This Tuesday in New York City, Circus Road Films and Theatricals & Big Head Productions will present an invite-only reading of a new play The Poets of Amityville by Eugene Pack.

The cast will include Tony Award-winners Matthew Broderick & Christine Ebersole, Tovah Feldshuh, Geraldine Hughes, Carol Kane, Dayle Reyfel, Peter Scolari, Treat Williams, Patrick Boll and Kate Mueth.

The Poets of Amityville is a comedy which centers on an adult education poetry class in Long Island where a possible trip to Dublin ignites a competition.

Broderick made his debut at 17 opposite his father James Broderick in "On Valentine's Day," and won an Outer Critic's Circle Award as Best Supporting Actor in Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy." He has also starred on Broadway in the Neil Simon comedies "Biloxi Blues" and "The Odd Couple," as well as the recent hit "Nice Work if You Can Get It" and the record-breaking production of "The Producers" (with frequent co-star Nathan Lane), for which he was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award. His film career includes the critically acclaimed "You Can Count on Me" with Laura Linney and the Independent Spirit Award winner "Election" with Reese Witherspoon. He has starred in the blockbusters "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Glory," "War Games," as the adult voice of Simba in Disney's "The Lion King," and in the films "Tower Heist," "Margaret," "Bee Movie," "Then She Found Me," "Deck the Halls," "The Last Shot," "The Stepford Wives," "Inspector Gadget," "Godzilla," "Addicted to Love," "The Cable Guy," "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle," "The Night We Never Met," "The Freshman," "Family Business," and "Max Dugan Returns." He will next be seen on screen in director Neil LaBute's "Dirty Weekend" with Alice Eve, and "The Untitled Warren Beatty Project" opposite Warren Beatty, Annette Bening and Lily Collins.

Ebersole, a native of Winnetka, received virtually every off-Broadway award and her second Tony Award for Leading Actress in a Musical for her dual performance as Edith Beale and Little Edie Beale in Grey Gardens. Other Broadway credits include her Tony Award-winning performance as Dorothy Brock in the smash hit revival 42nd Street, Dinner at Eight (Tony and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), Steel Magnolias, On the Twentieth Century, I Love My Wife, Angel Street, Oklahoma, Camelot opposite Richard Burton, The Best Man and the recent revival of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, co-starring with Dame Angela Lansbury. She has starred in five City Center Encores! productions, and received an Obie Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination for her work in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads. Ebersole has appeared in over 20 feature films including The Wolf Of Wall Street, Amadeus, Tootsie, Richie Rich, Black Sheep, My Favorite Martian, Dead Again, Folks!, True Crime, My Girl 2 and The Big Wedding, which also features an original composition that she wrote and sang for the end credits of the film. Her television credits include being a regular cast member of Saturday Night Live's 1981-82 season, the First Lady on the CBS hit show Madame Secretary, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, American Horror Story: Coven, Royal Pains, three seasons of Sullivan and Son for TBS, Ugly Betty, Law and Order: SVU, Boston Legal, Will & Grace, and she starred as Tessie Tura in the TV movie Gypsy with Bette Midler. Ebersole has performed in the concert version of the opera The Grapes of Wrath at Carnegie Hall, and she appeared with the San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall in a tribute to Leonard Bernstein. She performed at Boston's Symphony Hall and Tanglewood starring as Desiree Armfeldt in a concert version of A Little Night Music with the Boston Pops. In televised concerts, she has often appeared on PBS, including her star turns in Ira Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall and The Rodgers & Hart Story: Thou Swell, Thou Witty. She has performed on the Kennedy Center Honors, for Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jerry Herman. As a recording artist, she has released several albums including Live at the Cinegrill, Sunday in New York, In Your Dreams, Christine Ebersole Sings Noel Coward and Strings Attached. christineebersole.com



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