Michael Urie gained a lot of fans in Ugly Betty, but for the past few years he’s mainly been on the stage, having particular success with How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying on Broadway, and touring with a one-man show.
Now he’s teaming up with Broadway legend Patti Lupone for Douglas Carter Beane’s new play, Shows For Day. Urie will be ‘Beane’s alter ego, 14-year-old Car, in the semi-autobiographical story about a community theater in Reading, Penn.’ LuPone will be the head of the troupe, described as ‘an indomitable force of nature whose life is dedicated to putting on productions she directs, designs and stars in.’
Orange Is the New Black’s Dale Soules will also appear as a member of the theatre company.
Variety doesn’t report whether the play touches on LGBT themes, but there’s a good chance, as Beane also wrote The Nance, which starred Nathan Lane as an actor famed for playing effeminate characters, who has to deal with a mayor who’s trying to crack down on homosexual ‘deviants’. He also wrote the Tony Award-winning The Little Dog Laughed, about an agent concerned her client’s ‘slight recurring case of homosexuality’ will details his acting career before it’s begun.
The Lincoln Center Theater’s Off Broadway production of Shows for Days starts previews on June 6th ahead of a June 29th opening.
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