Harris Guest Hosts 'Live' Off-Broadway Special 5/23

On Friday, May 23rd "Live With Regis and Kelly" will be taking a look at Off-Broadway theater. Neil Patrick Harris will guest co-host. In addition to a live performance by Jesse McCartney, Kelly will be visiting the casts of the shows Naked Boys Singing, Jump and Fuerzabruta. The show airs on WABC TV. Check your local listings for start times.

Naked Boys Singing!, the fifteen-song celebration of the male form, is now its ninth year Off-Broadway at New World Stages Stage 4. The show is produced by Jamie Cesa, Carl D. White, Hugh Hayes, and Tom Smedes. It is directed and was conceived by Robert Schrock, and choreographed by Jeffrey Denman. The show opened Off-Broadway at The Actors' Playhouse in July 1999.

Jump is the high-flying, internationally acclaimed first North American production the nonverbal Korean extravaganza of martial arts, acrobatics and slapstick, opened Off Broadway to rave reviews at the Union Square Theatre (100 East 17th Street) on Sunday, October 7, 2007.

Breaking free from the confines of spoken language and theatrical convention, Fuerzabruta is an event where worlds collide and reality takes a back seat.  Immersed in an environment where imagination soars, performers run through moving walls, race to connect from opposite sides of a whirling sail and frolic in a watery world suspended just above the audience.  The non-stop action and kinetic aerial imagery is set to a dynamic soundtrack featuring percussive beats, engaging melodies and hypnotic ambient music," explain press notes.Fuerzabruta plays at the Daryl Roth Theatre (20 Union Square East at 15th Street).

Neil Patrick Harris' Broadway experience includes roles such as: Hal in Proof, the Emcee in Cabaret, and Lee Harvey Oswald/Balladeer in Assassins. He has also appeared in supporting roles on the big screen in such films as Starship Troopers, The Next Best Thing and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. He recently starred opposite Tony Shalhoub in the NBC sitcom 'Stark Raving Mad.' He is currently receiving critical acclaim for playing the role of the womanizing Barney Stinson in CBS's 'How I Met Your Mother,'

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