OVATION, maverick writer/director Henry Jaglom's ("Eating," "Festival in Cannes') wonderfully empathic and infectious comedy, will open October 7 22 in NY at The Cinema Village (22 E. 13th Street St., off 5th Ave,) from The Rainbow Film Company AND will be released on DVD Tuesday, October 11. "Ovation" stars Tanna Frederick ("The M Word," "Irene in Time") and James Denton ("Desperate Housewives," "Good Witch") in a wonderfully engaging look at how disparate characters - actors, agents, production coordinators - come together to create magic for 3 hours each night in the theater.
"Ovation" is a film about what takes place backstage in the critical week before a theater finds itself economically forced to close. Not only the production - which we never see, only getting glimpses of the actors going on-stage and coming off after curtain calls - but the entire theater complex is under threat of destruction in a secret high-end real estate deal, unknown to the members of the theater company or the play's producer (Cathy Arden). Caught in this theatrical / financial double-dealing crisis - is Maggie Chase, (Tanna Frederick) a highly talented and respected theater star who is caught between her "art" and her more commercial ambitions and a famous romantic male Television Star - Stewart Henry (James Denton) who has left behind dreams of art and creativity to successfully pursue TV fame and fortune. Sub-plots abound, involving the actors, agents, producers, directors and even the make-up people, each of who have separate and often conflicting agendas with one another.Videos