Jim Brochu, soon to star as SheriDan Whiteside in Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman's THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER, is set to appear as a special guest contestant on TV's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" today, November 8th. Now in its tenth season, "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" is the most internationally popular game show of all time and is hosted by Meredith Vieira. Check local listings or go to MillionaireTV.com for time and channel. In NYC, the program airs on WABC Channel 7 at 12:30 pm.
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER is being presented by the award-winning Peccadillo Theater Company, with performances beginning November 25th at Theatre at St. Clement's, 423 West 46th Street (between Ninth & Tenth Aves.) This marks the Off-Broadway debut of the classic American comedy.THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER opened at the Music Box Theatre on October 16, 1939 and ran for 739 performances. In the hilarious comedy satire, celebrated critic and radio personality SheriDan Whiteside slips on an icy doorstep while on a December lecture tour. Confined for several weeks of recovery at the Midwestern home of the utterly conventional Mr. and Mrs. Stanley, he proceeds to turn the family's life inside out with his incessant demands, long-distance phone calls and parade of eccentric celebrity guests. As Whiteside's secretary Maggie says, "He would see his mother burned at the stake if that was the only way he could light his cigarette!"In recent years, Peccadillo has broadened its mission to include original plays and musicals that share some of the virtues of classic American theater such as period style, well-defined characters and strong plotting. Such was the case with The Talk of the Town, an original musical about the legendary wits of the Algonquin Roundtable, several of whose plays Peccadillo has produced. And Zero Hour, about the actor/comedian Zero Mostel, whose appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee was just as explosive as his stage performances. Peccadillo's most recent production was its critically acclaimed revival of the George Abbott/Arthur Schwartz/Dorothy Fields musical A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Outer Critics Circle nominee Best Musical Revival).
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER will play a limited engagement through December 18th and the performance schedule is Tuesdays & Wednesdays at 7 pm, Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 pm, with matinees Saturday at 2 pm and Sunday at 3 pm. Tickets are $25 and are available by calling 212-352-3101 or through www.ThePeccadillo.com.Photo Credit: Walter McBride/WM Photos
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