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Moss Hart (play)
George S. Kaufman (play)
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7 October 2000 (USA) more
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Broadcast of a live performance of the Roundabout Theater Company's 2000 New York revival of the classic Kaufman-Hart comedy... more | add synopsis
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Utterly and completely fantabulous more (10 total)
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Nathan Lane | ... | Sheridan Whiteside |
 | Jean Smart | ... | Lorraine Sheldon |
 | Harriet Sansom Harris | ... | Maggie Cutler (as Harriet Harris) |
| Jack Arendt | ... | Choir boy |
| Jozef Fahey | ... | Choir boy |
| William Duell | ... | Dr. Bradley |
 | Stephen DeRosa | ... | Professor Metz |
| Ryan Torino | ... | Choir boy |
| Linda Stephens | ... | Mrs. Stanley |
| Julie Halston | ... | Mrs. McCutcheon |
 | Mary Catherine Garrison | ... | June Stanley |
| Kit Flanagan | ... | Mrs. Dexter |
| Julie Boyd | ... | Sarah |
| Mary Catherine Wright | ... | Miss Preen |
| André Thompson | ... | Prisoner / Radio techician / Expressman (Act III) (as André Steve Thompson) |
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176 min
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The part of Banjo was based on Alexander Woollcott's best friend, Harpo Marx. Harpo thought so much of Woollcott that he named two of his children after him. more
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Version of The Man Who Came to Dinner (1947) (TV) more
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If you're in a mood to laugh yourself silly, this is the play for you. Nathan Lane is at his scenery-chewing best as Sheridan Whiteside (modeled on Alexander Woolcott), a critic, commentator, and friend of the great and near-great who is forced to spend several weeks in the home of a Middle America family for whom "Goodbye Mister Chips" is as high on the cultural scale as they go. Lewis Stadlen is equally hilarious as the manic, irrepressible Banjo (a takeoff of one of the Marx Brothers, but I'm not sure which). Jean Smart is wonderful as the haughty and man-eating Lorraine Sheldon, and Harriet Harris is superb as Maggie Cutler, Whiteside's devoted secretary and Lorraine's nemesis.
To get all the references, you'll need a copy of Who Was Who in Theater, Film, and Opera, but I'm glad they didn't try to update them. It just wouldn't have worked.
Finally, kudos to Ryan Shively (as Sandy, union organizer and June's fiancee)! A talented actor and an all-around great guy (okay, he's my roommate, so I'm a little biased)!