NewsPublic Theater Postpones Pirates of Penzance Gala, With Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, Jonathan Groff, Martin Short, Due to RainInclement weather has forced the Public Theater to postpone its starry June 10 gala performance of The Pirates of Penzance, starring Kevin Kline, Glenn Close and Jonathan Groff. The event will now take place June 11 at the Delacorte Theater.
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Adam Hetrick
June 10, 2013
Kevin Kline
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The Public also announced that the June 11 Shakespeare in the Park performance of The Comedy of Errors has been canceled to allow for the rescheduled gala performance. The Comedy of Errors will resume June 12.
The one-night-only production of Pirates of Penzance is directed by Tony Award winner Ted Sperling (The Light in the Piazza, See What I Wanna See), with musical staging by original choreographer Graciela Daniele (Ragtime, Once On This Island). James Moore is musical director.
The 1980 production of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta was adapted by William Elliot. It was first staged at the Delacorte by Wilford Leach in August 1980 prior to transferring to a Tony Award-winning Broadway run in December.
Meryl Streep and Sir Howard Stringer host the evening that pays tribute to late Academy Award-winning writer Nora Ephron ("When Harry Met Sally," "Sleepless in Seattle"), who died June 26, 2012. Ephron's new play Lucky Guy opened on Broadway April 1.
The Public Theater will plant a flowering cherry tree in Central Park across from the Delacorte Theater in honor of Ephron. Stringer, Arielle Tepper Madover and Renée Beaumont serve as gala co-chairs for the event.
The Public's Shakespeare in the Park season features The Comedy of Errors, starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Hamish Linklater (through June 30); and the new musical adaptation of Love's Labour's Lost, directed and written by Alex Timbers with songs by Michael Friedman (July 23-Aug. 18).
PHOTO SPECIAL: 50 Years of Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte
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See Historic Pics of Pacino, Streep, Kline, Portman, Freeman, Walken, Sheen and More in 50+ Years of Shakespeare in the Park!
See Historic Pics of Pacino, Streep, Kline, Portman, Freeman, Walken, Sheen and More in 50+ Years of Shakespeare in the Park!
James Earl Jones, Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Natalie Portman, Morgan Freeman and Raul Julia are just a few of the stars to grace the stage of the Delacorte Theater since 1962. As the Public Theater celebrates its 53nd year at the Delacorte, we look back at the last half century of Shakespeare in the Park.
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George C. Scott in The Merchant of Venice, 1962
James Earl Jones in The Merchant of Venice, 1962
Richard Jordan and Kathleen Widdoes in The Tempest, 1962
Frank Silvera in King Lear, 1962
Colleen Dewhurst and Michael Higgins in Antony and Cleopatra, 1963
