Nick Tomnay’s The Perfect Host starring David Hyde Pierce, Clayne Crawford and Helen Reddy, sold in seven territories including: French Connection Films for France; Festival Films for Spain; All Interactive Media in Australia/New Zealand; Bejing Asian Culture for China; Front Row Entertainment in the Middle East; Videx for all pay TV rights in Latin America; and Jaguar Films for all international airline rights.

Here’s hoping we get a chance to see it soon!

One of this year’s most anticipated productions opens here in London before transferring straight to Broadway. La Bête stars the extraordinary, multi award-winning Mark Rylance; David Hyde Pierce, best known as for his brilliant portrayal of Niles Crane in the best-ever TV sitcom Frasier and a seasoned theatre performer; and Joanna Lumley, who also achieved TV sitcom immortality as Patsy Stone in Ab Fab. David Hirson’s 1991 play – a battle between Valère, a lowbrow street clown, and high-minded dramatist Elomire to win the theatrical favours of a princess, all in rhyming couplets – won an Olivier award when it was staged here with Alan Cumming at the Lyric Hammersmith. It failed to transfer, but Cumming went on to success on the back of Cabaret. Rylance will no doubt rise to the challenge here, too.

Isabelle Stevenson Award winner David Hyde Pierce, who was honored for his work with the Alzheimer’s Association, said this Tony ceremony was very different than the one when he won for Best Actor in a Musical for Curtains. “They called a few weeks ago to tell me they were giving me this award, so I was not sweating bullets tonight. That made it more pleasant.” Pierce also loved the fact that he got to present an award with his longtime Frasier co-star Kelsey Grammer. “We see each other all the time, but it was great not just to be on stage with him, but in front of the camera together again. That was really cool.”

Pierce will be back on stage soon; he’s rehearsing for the London production of La Bete, which will immediately transfer to Broadway in the fall. “I always pick my projects based on who I get to work with, and I am working with Joanna Lumley, Mark Rylance, and Matthew Warchus on this fascinating play. I am having the time of my life.” As for whether he will play the role of J.B Biggley in the upcoming Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying opposite Daniel Radcliffe — the part he played in the show’s workshop production — the actor would only say that it’s still a possibility.