Hourglass Group in association with True Faux Productions has announced that Cynthia Nixon (TV's "Sex and the City", Tony-winner for Rabbit Hole) will host a benefit performance of their acclaimed Off-Broadway stage adaptation of Trouble in Paradise, which was recently extended Off-Broadway through July 22nd. The benefit will be held Thursday, July 20 at 8pm at the Hudson Guild Theatre (441 West 26th Street between 9th/10th, accessible from the E train at 23rd Street).
Conceived and directed by Elyse Singer, this adaptation of the 1932 Ernst Lubitsch film with screenplay by Samson Raphaelson is written by David Simpatico and features an original score by downtown jazz veteran Steven Bernstein and the Millennial Territory Orchestra. Proceeds will benefit Hourglass Group.It's Trouble in Paradise "when suave swindler Gaston meets his soul mate Lily, a crass pickpocketer masquerading as a countess. The two grifters join forces to con Madame Colet, the glamourous heir to a perfume empire. Risking his own heart and Lily's jealousy, Gaston gets a job as Colet's assistant and begins to woo the heiress away from a pair of bumbling suitors. When the secret of his true identity catches up to him, sparks fly and Gaston is caught between two women who have stolen his heart," state press notes."The original 1932 pre-Code film by Ernst Lubitsch starred Herbert Marshall, Kay Francis, and Miriam Hopkins is considered a comic masterpiece. It epitomizes the 'Lubitsch Touch' with its witty innuendo-filled dialogue, orchestrated grace, charming style, sardonic humor and cynical amorality. The film was pulled from circulation 1935 due to its multiple violations of the Code and was not re-issued until the 1960s."Videos