4th Broadway show

[Fran]

ELIZABETH IS BACK ON STAGE: SHE's GONNA BE ONE OF THE PERFORMERS' IN THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF BROADWAY'S ACCLAIMED "24-HOUR-PLAYS".

Dratch, Berkley, Lillard, McCarthy, Sheedy More Star in 24-Hour Fringe 24 is 10
By Ernio Hernandez
16 Aug 2006

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of "The 24 Hour Plays" and the New York International Fringe Festival, performers Rachel Dratch, Elizabeth Berkley, Matthew Lillard, Andrew McCarthy, Ally Sheedy and more will star in 24 is 10: The Best of The 24 Hour Plays.

Scheduled to run Aug. 22-27, five different lineups of 25 ten-minute plays from the company's previous mountings will play at the Lucille Lortel Theatre with rotating casts.

Original casts and other alumni performing include Dratch ("Saturday Night Live"), Elizabeth Berkley ("Showgirls"), Matthew Lillard ("Scooby Doo"), Andrew McCarthy ("Pretty in Pink"), Ally Sheedy ("The Breakfast Club"), Andre Royo, muMs ("Oz") and Brent Cox. The plays are penned by David Lindsay-Abaire, Warren Leight, Theresa Rebeck, Jeff Whitty, Christopher Shinn, Will Eno, Adam Bock, Mike Doughty, John Belluso, Elizabeth Meriwether, Michael John Garces and more.

In keeping with "The 24 Hour Plays" tradition of speedy theatre, the works will begin rehearsals the morning of each show. Further casting will be available on the website (www.24hourplays.com).

The lineup (subject to change) is as follows:

Aug. 22 - 11 PM:
Crisco by Julie Stark
Dream State, Or The Subconsious Burlesque by Angel David
Bus Stop by Candido Tirado, (featuring Brent Cox and Julie Wright)
The Rumor by Dan Kois
Tobias, Angel Of Heaven by Connor Ratliff (Mums)

Aug. 23 - 6:15 PM:
The Other Person by David Lindsay-Abaire (Berkley, Dratch, McCarthy, Sheedy, and Lillard)
Sizable Town by Mike Doughty
Deliver Me by Teresa Rebeck
Cuba by Michael Wynne
Be Still by Stephen Winter

Aug. 24 - 6:15 PM:
Vikings! by Greta Billinger
Poor Bob by Elizabeth Meriwether
The Woman by Michael John Garces
A Weekend In Brazil by Ted Travelstead and Julie Wright
Karla Says by Mac Rogers

Aug. 26 - 8:45 PM
Mars Has Never Been So Close by Warren Leight
Altitude Sickness by Nicolas Locke
And I Dance by Chris Ceraso
K,X,Z and V by Ian Williams
Harbingers of Turpitude by Robin Goldwasser

Aug. 27 - 6 PM:
Two Worlds by Chris Shinn
Sleeping City by John Belluso (Matthew Lillard)
Vaudeville, Population Two by Will Eno
Play With Faun by Jeff Whitty
Three Guys And A Brenda by Adam Bock

Tickets to 24 is 10: The Best of The 24 Hour Plays at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher St. are available by phone at [phone] or through 24hourplays.com and fringenyc.org.

[QueenKelly]

This is great Fran! I'm so excited for her!

[Fran]

Her stage play was a hit!

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NewsTrack - Entertainment

Stars brighten New York's Fringe stage

NEW YORK, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Four celebrities lit up the stage during David Lindsay-Abaire's "The Other Person" at the New York Fringe Festival.

The festival is not known for celebrity casts, so the audience was surprised to find Ally Sheedy, Elizabeth Berkley, Rachel Dratch and Aasif Mandvi of "The Daily Show" in the play, The New York Post reported Friday.

Lindsay-Abaire's comedy was the highlight of Wednesday night's "24 is 10: The Best of the 24 Hour Plays," featuring highlights from the last 10 years of plays written, rehearsed and performed in a single day.

His story centered on the fallout caused by sudden appearance of a mysterious, beautiful woman at a gathering of two married couples undergoing domestic disharmony.

[QueenKelly]

Way to go Elizabeth!

[Fran]

THE NEW YORK TIMES run a great review of Elizabeth's last week Broadway show, "The Other Person".


[...]That’s not the case with the proudly scrappy “24 Is 10: The Best of the 24-Hour Plays,” a greatest-hits collection of the popular showcase that features some of the biggest names in the theater scrambling to write, cast and perform one-acts in a single day. The highlight of Wednesday evening was “That Other Person,” a quintessentially oddball piece by David Lindsay-Abaire, who had the advantage of an excellent all-star cast of comedic actors, including Aasif Mandvi, Ally Sheedy, Rachel Dratch and Elizabeth Berkley Lauren.

The cleverly structured playlet begins in the middle of a domestic dispute and gradually reveals its back story. A mysterious stranger, played by an appealingly daffy Ms. Berkley Lauren, arrives on the scene right after Ginge (an imperious Ms. Sheedy), a paraplegic, and Kevin (Randall Batinkoff) tell their spouses that they have been committing adultery. Ginge’s husband, Kack (Mr. Mandvi), is stunned, but Kevin’s wife, Sissy (Ms. Dratch), isn’t going down quietly. She explains that Kevin only fell for Ginge because he has a sense of guilt about “the handicapped” since his sister died after choking on a hot dog and he didn’t know the Heimlich maneuver. It’s a funny line that makes no sense, which of course makes it even funnier.

By creating their shows on the fly, the artists of the “24-Hour Plays,” which are dependably messy, spontaneous and occasionally in bad taste, prove to be even fringier than the Fringe.

[Goosin_Gosselaar]

Did anybody go?

[QueenKelly]

I'm very proud of her. Sounds like she's working hard doing what she wants to do.

[Barb]

Erika, you're going to NYC to see Mary Poppins...you should go see Elizabeth's performance too if you have time! ;D

[Erika]

barb1686 said:

Erika, you're going to NYC to see Mary Poppins...you should go see Elizabeth's performance too if you have time! ;D

I know! I thought of the same thing! But I will be there in October! Oh well....maybe next time!

[Barb]

admin said:

barb1686 said:

Erika, you're going to NYC to see Mary Poppins...you should go see Elizabeth's performance too if you have time! ;D

I know! I thought of the same thing! But I will be there in October! Oh well....maybe next time!

Oh I didn't see it was a festival type of thing...I was thinking it was a regular show. Darn.

They should let us know news about their shows in plenty of notice...then maybe we can all save our money up, meet up, and watch the show together! LOL Hey, we could've been DWTS audience members holding Vote For Mario signs haha ;D

[QueenKelly]

LOL That would be funny Barb. ;D

[Fran]

this is a description of Elizabeth's role in this play:
The August 23 lineup boasted five lively comedies. The highlight was David Lindsay-Abaire’s That Other Person, which featured a stellar cast and ended the evening on a high note. The tale of marital infidelity among friends served as a reminder of Lindsay-Abaire’s flair for comedy (which he departed from with Rabbit Hole). A woman named Tappy (Elizabeth Berkley Lauren) has been caught spying on two couples. She says she knows the hosts, Ginge (Ally Sheedy) and Jack (Aasif Mandvi), and their guests, Sissy (Rachel Dratch) and Kevin (Randall Batinkoff). But the couples don’t recognize her. That’s because Tappy weighed 315 pounds in high school until she had “the Al Roker surgery.” (The idea of Berkley Lauren, of Showgirls fame, ever weighing that much is as preposterous as it is funny.) That Other Person is so enjoyable that Lindsay-Abaire might consider putting together an evening of one acts. If he does, he couldn’t do better than this cast. Dratch, who recently left Saturday Night Live, is particularly funny. I very much liked her exit line: “I will be putting all of this on my blog.” The comedian should definitely do more theater.