Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Starring Baldwin, Begins Previews Feb. 17
Roundabout Theatre Company is gearing up for its first preview of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane, starring Alec Baldwin, Richard Easton (Tony Award-winner for The Invention of Love) and Jan Maxwell (Tony Award-nominee for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), on Thursday, February 17th. The show will officially open at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 W. 46th Street) on March 16th.Former "O.C." star Chris Carmack, who plays the title character of Sloane, is currently featured on the cover of the February issue of Metro magazine. Carmack also talks about his Off-Broadway debut in the February issue of Manhattan Living magazine.
Scott Ellis (The Little Dog Laughed, Twelve Angry Men) will direct the show. Entertaining
Mr. Sloane is a play by Joe Orton (What the Butler Saw), that was first presented in London at
the New Arts Theatre in May of 1964. "Shocking when it was first
produced in the 1960s, this dark comedy is about a seemingly
fresh-faced and innocent young man who takes up lodgings with a
middle-aged spinster and ends up sexually manipulating the whole
family," state press notes.
On
Broadway, Baldwin recently appeared in The Roundabout Theatre Company's
2004 revival of Hecht and MacArthur's The Twentieth Century. He was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in the 1992
revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, and was
nominated for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for the television
movie of that same production. He won an Obie Award for the 1991
off-Broadway production of Craig Lucas' Prelude to a Kiss and a Theatre World Award in 1986 for his turn in
Joe Orton's Loot on Broadway. He has also performed on Broadway in
Caryl Churchill's Serious Money. Other stage includes David Mamet's Life in the Theatre, (directed by the late AJ Antoon), the
Williamstown Theatre Festival and at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag
Harbor, New York, where he performed in Ira Lewis's Gross Points. His many films include The Hunt for Red October, Malice, Prelude to a Kiss, Glengarry Glen Ross, Ghosts of Mississippi, Pearl Harbor, The Aviator and The Cooler, for which he received an Oscar nomination.
For tickets and more information, visit www.roundabouttheater.org.
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