David is among the first wave of Tony presenters announced for this year’s awards. Wonder if he’ll be presenting Best Lead Actress in a Musical, as he has done the last two years?
At the ceremony on 13 June he’ll also be receiving the honorary Isabelle Stevenson award for his work raising awareness of Alzheimer’s.
The wonderful Kelsey Grammer will also be a presenter on the night, as well as the likes of Cate Blanchett, Laura Linney, Helen Mirren, Chris Noth, Bernadette Peters, Liev Schreiber, Denzel Washington and plenty more. Sean Hayes will host.
David’s next theatre project, La Bete, will transfer to Broadway this September, with previews starting at a to-be-announced Shubert Theatre in New York on 23 September. Opening night is set for 14 October.
Till then, the play will be running in London’s Comedy Theatre from 26 June to 4 September, with the West End opening night set for 7 July.
Joining previously the previously announced cast of DHP (Elomire), Mark Rylance (Valere) and Joanna Lumley (Princess Conti), are Stephen Ouimette (Bejart), Lisa Joyce (Marquise-Therese Du Parc),Greta Lee (Dorine), Robert Lonsdale (Rene Du Parc), Michael Milligan (De Brie), Liza Sadovy (Catherine De Brie) and Sally Wingert (Madeleine Bejart).
It’s all been quiet on the DHP front the last while, but here’s some delish speculation from Playbill.com to keep us going. You might remember that back in December, David took part in a reading of How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying with Dan Radcliffe and Michael Urie. Once he signed up to do La Bete in London, however, it seemed the How to Succeed production would go on without him – but maybe not …
David Hyde Pierce will begin the next Broadway season, playing a high-minded classical dramatist to Mark Rylance’s low-brow street clown in a revival of David Hirson’s 1991 La Bete, due at a Shubert house in September after a summer run in London, and he may end it, playing a corporate kingpin to Daniel Radcliffe’s company-climbing window cleaner in a revival of Abe Burrows and Frank Loesser’s 1961 How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, arriving in April. Read the rest of this entry »
Huzzah! David will be the recipient of a special award at the 2010 Tonys, the Isabelle Stevenson Award, which honours members of the theatrical community for philanthropic efforts – in David’s case, the fight against Alzheimer’s disease.
The awards will take place on 13 June in Radio City Music Hall. Lifetime Achievement Tonys will be presented to playwright Alan Ayckbourn and actress Marian Seldes.
Congrats David! I’m sure it’ll look great next to his 2007 Tony for Best Actor in a Musical …
David’s donning his journo hat in the latest issue of Vanity Fair! He previews his friend Michael Feinstein’s latest double act: All About Me, with Dame Edna. Check it out:
When an irresistible force such as you meets an old immovable object like me … Something’s got to give, and it’s probably going to be the walls of the newly renovated Henry Miller’s Theatre. Through a clerical error, Michael Feinstein, the Ambassador of the American Songbook (as well as the Impresario of Feinstein’s at Loews Regency), and Dame Edna Everage, the Down Under Secretary of Whoopee, have been booked into the same Broadway theater, for a limited run opening March 18, to perform their respective one-person shows. This spectacle, entitled All About Me, will be a clash of the titans — one a crazed, flower-flinging diva, the other a large Australian woman. Not since Glenn Gould met Leonard Bernstein and the New York Phil has there been such a potential conflagration, and, to add gasoline to the fire, the producers have brought in director Casey Nicholaw, who is insane, and the writer Christopher Durang, who is insaner. This may be the end of theater as we know it, but what a way to go.
David and Soleil Moon Frye (AKA Punky Brewster) were in Washington DC last weekend for the Alzheimer’s Association’s national gala. They recorded their message on this sunny, shaky vid:
Here’s some more pics of David and Brian at the Temperamentals premiere. According to this review of the show, David and Brian will be on the panel at TalkOut Monday on 5 April. The first TalkOut Monday featuring Paul Rudnick and Larry Kramer is up on the Temperamentals website in video form, so hopefully we’ll get footage of David and Brian too! (Thanks to nilespatient and josmonster from the forum!) Read the rest of this entry »
1. Joanna Lumley
Patsy! Er … Joanna sees Prince Conti become Princess in Matthew Warchus’s version, duly whipping her theatre boy to get what she wants. With Lumley and David Hyde Pierce on board for this 17th century comedy, it’s difficult to see how La Bete will disappoint. Read the rest of this entry »