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Second Stage Theatre To Present

Terrence McNally’s

SOME MEN

Directed by Trip Cullman

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Performances begin Friday, March 2; Opening Night is Monday, March 26

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) will present the New York premiere of Terrence McNally’s Some Men, directed by Trip Cullman. Some Men will begin previews on March 2 and officially open on Monday, March 26 at 6:45pm. Ticket information is available by calling Second Stage Theatre box office at 212-246-4422 or online at www.secondstagetheatre.com.

SOME MEN is Tony Award winner Terrence McNally at his best. Often funny and sometimes touching, SOME MEN looks at same-sex life and love against a background of some of the events that shaped the last century.

The company of Some Men is Don Amendolia, Kelly AuCoin, Romain Frugé, David Greenspan, Jesse Hooker, Michael McElroy, Pedro Pascal, Randy Redd, and Fred Weller.

Some Men will have scenic design by Mark Wendland, costume design by Linda Cho, lighting design by Kevin Adams, and sound design by John Gromada.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Don Amendolia appeared on Broadway in Stepping Out and My One and Only and off-Broadway in Terrence McNally’s Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams, Cloud Nine (original cast), and The Firebugs, among others. His many television and film appearances include guest starring roles on “Seinfeld,” “Frasier,” “Ellen,” “LA Law,” “Fresh Prince of Bel Air,” “Perfect Strangers,” and “Twin Peaks,” and the films Skeletons in the Closet, The Secret of My Success, Fearless, Ed Wood, and Boogie Nights.

Kelly AuCoin appeared on Broadway as Octavius Caesar in Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington. He appeared in the national tour of Copenhagen, and Off-Broadway in Ladies of the Corridor (Classic Stage Co.), Boy (Primary Stages), and Far & Wide (Mint). His many television and film roles include “Third Watch,” “The Sopranos,” numerous “Law & Order” episodes, and the films Kingdom (starring Jamie Foxx), Serial, A Perfect Fit (starring Adrian Grenier), A Normal Life, Love & Stuff, A Perfect Murder.

Romain Frugé appeared on Broadway in The Full Monty (original cast), Titanic, Tommy (Cousin Kevin), The Secret Garden (Dickon), and Big River (Huck). Off-Broadway and regional productions include Floyd Collins (Floyd), Old Globe, Goodman, The Prince Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Sad Lament of Pecos Bill (Signature Theatre), Falsettos (Whizzer), Huntington Stage.

David Greenspan has directed and performed in his plays Jack, Principia, The Home Show Pieces, 2 Samuel 11, Etc. (at Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art), Dead Mother, or Shirley Not All in Vain (at the Public), Dog in a Dancing School (at DTW), She Stoops to Comedy (at Playwrights Horizons, Obie) and The Myopia, an epic burlesque of tragic proportion (with The Foundry). Several of the plays have been produced at theatres overseas, most notably The Royal Court in London and Stükke Theatre in Berlin. Other acting credits include Richard II at CSC, Harry Kondoleon’s Saved or Destroyed (directed by Craig Lucas), Kathleen Tolan’s The Wax (Playwrights Horizons), and Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band (Obie, Drama Desk Nomination).

Jesse Hooker’s Off-Broadway credits include Drug Buddy at the Cherry Lane, Commedia Del Smartass at New Georges, La Femme Est Morte and Amerika at the NY Fringe Festival and The Ping Pong Diplomacy at 59 E. 59th. Many regional credits include The Rainmaker at Arena Stage, After Ashley and Hazard County at the Humana Festival, The Laramie Project at the Olney, and Amadeus at Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Michael McElroy received Tony and Drama Desk nominations for Big River. Other Broadway credits include Rent, The Wild Party, The Who's Tommy, Miss Saigon, Patti LuPone on Broadway, High Roller Social Pleasure Club, and Hair at Encores. Off-Broadway productions include Blue (Roundabout), Violet (Drama Desk Nomination), Thunder Knocking on the Door (Minetta Lane), Richard III (New York Shakespeare Festival. Michael founded The Broadway Inspirational Voices in 1994.

Pedro Pascal appeared off-Broadway in Based on a Totally True Story and Beauty of the Father, and Macbeth at The Public Theater/NYSF. Regional roles include Osvald in Ghosts with Jane Alexander and Lorenzaccio (The Shakespeare Theater), Hamlet, Anna in the Tropics, Gizmo Love, Lobby Hero, and Orphans (L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award, Garland). Television roles include “Law & Order,” “Without a Trace,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” and MTV’s “Undressed.”.

Randy Redd’s credits include Parade directed by Harold Prince (Lincoln Center Theater and national tour), Smoke on the Mountain, Pump Boys and Dinettes (20th anniversary), Forever Plaid, Blood Brothers, One Man Band, Mississippi Sugar, and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s By Jeeves, directed by Alan Ayckbourn. Regionally he has appeared at the Actors’ Playhouse, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, Kennedy Center, Goodspeed-at-Chester, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Pittsburgh CLO and others.

Fred Weller has appeared on Broadway in Seascape, The Little Foxes, Six Degrees of Separation, Glengarry Glen Ross (Ensemble Drama Desk Award), Take Me Out (as Shane Mungitt; Drama Desk nomination), and The Rehearsal. Off-Broadway appearances include The Shape of Things (Lucille Lortel nomination), Curtains (Ensemble Obie Award), The Country Club, Plunge. He has appeared in the films Southern Belles (the Sundance Channel ‘05-’06), Four Lane Highway (2005 Tribeca Film Festival selection), When Will I Be Loved, The Shape of Things, The Business of Strangers, Stonewall, Coyote Ugly and Basquiat.

Playwright TERRENCE McNALLY has won four Tony Awards, most recently for Ragtime (music and lyrics by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens). He won the Tony in 1996 for his play Master Class; the 1995 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Play as well as the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best American Play for Love! Valour! Compassion!; and the 1993 Tony for his book of the musical Kiss of the Spider Woman (music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb). His plays include The Stendahl Syndrome, Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams, A Perfect Ganesh, Lips Together Teeth Apart, The Lisbon Traviata, Corpus Christi, Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, It’s Only a Play, Bad Habits, The Ritz, Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?, And Things That Go Bump in the Night, Next, and the book for the musicals The Full Monty, A man of No Importance, Chita Rivera: A Dancer’s Life, and The Rink. Mr. McNally’s play Deuce will premiere on Broadway this spring.

Director TRIP CULLMAN staged the Second Stage Theatre Uptown production of Adam Bock’s Swimming in the Shallows. Other directing credits include Dog Sees God (Century Center for the Performing Arts), Roulette (EST), Smashing (The Play Company), The Last Sunday in June (Century Center for the Performing Arts and Rattlestick Theater), The Vortex (Innocent Theatre), The Propaganda Plays (Dixon Place), and Atom & Devorah (Lincoln Center Directors Lab).

ABOUT SECOND STAGE THEATRE

Founded in 1979 under the leadership of Artistic Director Carole Rothman, Second Stage Theatre produces a diverse range of premieres and new interpretations of America's best contemporary theatre, including Tiny Alice by Edward Albee, The Good Times Are Killing Me by Lynda Barry, Little Murders by Jules Feiffer, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin, A Soldier’s Play by Charles Fuller, Painting Churches and Coastal Disturbances by Tina Howe, Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants and On The Stem by Ricky Jay, Living Out by Lisa Loomer, This Is Our Youth and The Waverly Gallery by Kenneth Lonergan, Afterbirth: Kathy & Mo’s Greatest Hits by Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney, Saturday Night by Stephen Sondheim, Crowns by Regina Taylor, Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein, Spoils of War by Michael Weller, Before It Hits Home and Jar the Floor by Cheryl L. West, Jitney by August Wilson, Lemon Sky, Serenading Louie, and Sympathetic Magic by Lanford Wilson, and Metamorphoses and The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci by Mary Zimmerman. The company’s more than 125 citations include the 2002 Tony Award for Best Director of a Play (Mary Zimmerman for Metamorphoses), the 2002 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work, 23 OBIE Awards, 4 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 2 Clarence Derwent Awards, 9 Drama Desk Awards, 5 Theatre World Awards, 9 Lucille Lortel Awards, the Drama Critics Circle Award, and 11 AUDELCO awards.

In 1999, Second Stage Theatre opened its state-of-the-art, 296-seat theatre, designed by renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. In 2002, Second Stage launched “Second Stage Theatre Uptown” series to showcase the work of up and coming artists at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre. The Theatre supports artists through several programs that include residencies, fellowships and commissions, and engages students and community members through education and outreach programs.

Second Stage Theatre’s acclaimed production of Douglas Carter Beane’s The Little Dog Laughed is currently in previews at Broadway’s Cort Theatre. Opening night is scheduled for November 13. And the company’s critically-acclaimed hit musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee continues its run at Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theatre.

SECOND STAGE THEATRE 2006-07 SEASON

Following Some Men, the 2006-07 Second Stage mainstage season will conclude with the New York premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s eurydice, beginning performances on May 30 and officially opening on June 18.

SECOND STAGE THEATRE ON BROADWAY

Second Stage Theatre’s acclaimed production of Douglas Carter Beane’s The Little Dog Laughed is playing at Broadway’s Cort Theater through February 18. And the company’s critically-acclaimed hit musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee continues its run at Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theatre.

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Some Men will be performed through Sunday, April 15 at Second Stage Theatre (307 West 43rd Street, just west of 8th Avenue) on the following schedule: Tuesday at 7:00pm, Wednesday – Saturday at 8:00pm, Wednesday and Saturday at 2:00pm, and Sunday at 3:00pm. (NOTE: All evening performances the week of April 3 will begin at 7:00pm. Matinee curtain times remain the same).

Tickets are $65.00 and may be purchased by phoning 212-246-4422 or 800-766-6048 or online at www.secondstagetheatre.com. A limited number of student rush tickets are $10 and are available 30 minutes prior to curtain.

Group tickets are available by phoning 212-889-4300 or (800) 331-0472. Box-office hours are Monday, 10:00am – 6:00pm, Tuesday 10:00am – 7:00pm, Wednesday through Saturday, 10:00am to 8:00pm, and Sunday, 10:00am to 3:00pm.

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