NewsShows for Days, Starring Patti LuPone and Michael Urie, Plays Its Final Off-Broadway "Show" TodayThe Off-Broadway world premiere of Douglas Carter Beane's semi-autobiographical play Shows for Days, starring Patti LuPone and Michael Urie, concludes its Lincoln Center Theater run Aug. 23 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse.
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Adam Hetrick
August 23, 2015
Four-time Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks directs Shows for Days, which began previews June 6 and officially opened June 29. Tony Award nominee Beane is the playwright of The Nance, The Little Dog Laughed, as well as the librettist for Cinderella and Lysistrata Jones.
Olivier and two-time Tony winner LuPone stars as a headstrong community theatre diva opposite Urie as the playwright's impressionable and wide-eyed alter ego.
Patti LuPone and Michael Urie
Photo by Joan Marcus
The play marked LuPone's first Off-Broadway appearance since The Cradle Will Rock in 1983.
The production reunited LuPone (Gypsy, Evita, Anything Goes) with Urie (Buyer & Cellar, The Temperamentals), who appeared together on the sitcom "Ugly Betty," in which LuPone guest starred as Urie's mother. The two are joined on stage by Broadway veteran Dale Soules (Hands on a Hardbody, "Orange Is the New Black"), Jordan Dean (The New Century), Lance Coadie Williams (BootyCandy) and Zoë Winters (4000 Miles).
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Doggy Time, Wig Swaps and Backstage Fun! Spend a Wild Saturday at Shows for Days With Michael Urie
Doggy Time, Wig Swaps and Backstage Fun! Spend a Wild Saturday at Shows for Days With Michael Urie
Stage and screen favorite Michael Urie stars as Douglas Carter Beane's impressionable and wide-eyed alter ego in the Off-Broadway world premiere of the playwright's semi-autobiographical play Shows for Days, also featuring Olivier and two-time Tony winner Patti LuPone. The actor documented a busy two-show day with his boyfriend, dog, castmates and stage door fans!
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GOOD MORNING PRESIDENT McKINLEY!!!
Michael Urie
Ryan is putting a load of laundry in - God he's cool.
Michael Urie
Walk???? Wanna go for a walk???? Look at her tail.
Gorgeous day, I'm savoring every day that I get to walk to work
Michael Urie
On my way to the Mitzi Newhouse - amazing history, on the right that's Anything Goes starring Patti LuPone and directed by Jerry Zaks!!!
Michael Urie
I have always wanted to work at Lincoln Center - what a thrill!
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LOOK IT'S THE KING AND I hallway! We've got the best upstairs neighbors.
Michael Urie
It's the Jerry Zaks landing, from this spot you can see three of Jerry's shows (he pointed this out to us...)
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I'm always the last one here....
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It's sweet Suseon Bak, our adorable and amazing hair person
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That's me!
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My dressing roommates' hair(s)
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Our stage managers make the best coffee on all of Off Broadway.
Michael Urie
I wonder when they installed these signs....
Michael Urie
It's my act two tie, but Sheri likes to have it tied at the top of the show so she can pre set it for my quick change.
Michael Urie
I always go visit the ladies dressing room before the show, here's Suseon Bak doing Zoe Winters' hair. That's Dale Soules in the BG doing her OWN hair...
Michael Urie
See there's Sheri Maher the wardrobe supervisor with my tie
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Zoe doing some yoga thing
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Audrey the dresser is a power nap specialist
Michael Urie
Suseon Bak helps Lance Coadie Williams with his amazing Paul Huntley wig
Michael Urie
I literally missed the chair - and Lance laughed at me and then took my picture...
Michael Urie
This wig has no idea how lucky it is...
Michael Urie
Between shows, we went to the movies!!!! Zoe liked Jeremy Renner best....
Michael Urie
Patti didn't join us for the movie cuz she wanted to nap, but we did invite her!
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Sweet dreams, Patti!
Michael Urie
We also invited her wig to join, but wig wanted to nap
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Our awesome understudy cast fighting over the cell service chair - only a few hot spots down in the bowels of LCT (Susan Pellegrino, Karhryn Rossetter, Maxwell Eddy & Lance Roberts)
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Lance's pre show face mask
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I got a trim before the evening show! Photo bomb by a cardboard cutout of Jan Maxwell
Arlene Watson
Michael Urie
Why can't i play the role of Clive??? Huh????
Michael Urie
I could also play Jordan Dean's role, Damian....?
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Our fearless stage managers, Karen Evanouskas and Will Lang!
Michael Urie
After our five minute call before every show, to get into the 1970s swing of Shows For Days, Lance and Jordan and I rock out to this 70s TV show theme song WKRP... "just maybe think of me once in a while..."
Michael Urie
There's kissing in the play, so backstage we have this...
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Prop table
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Patti always does a shot before the show. (of Listerine)
Michael Urie
Awwww there's Dale Soules on her way to ACT 2
Michael Urie
Our show is over - but King and I has another 45 minutes or so.... I guess they're all onstage....
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Stage door peeps!!!
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Our upstairs neighbor, The King of Siam!! Aka handsome and talented Jose Llana
Michael Urie on Sharing the Stage With Patti LuPone and the Fight for "Full Equality." According to LCT, "Shows for Days is playwright Douglas Carter Beane's fond remembrance of his immersion into a life in the theatre. The comedy is set in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1973, when 14-year-old Car, the play's narrator and the author's alter-ego (to be played by Urie), is introduced to the world of theatre through his local community theatre, the Prometheus Theatre, and its devoted cast and crew which is led by Irene (to be played by LuPone), an indomitable force of nature whose life is dedicated to putting on productions she directs, designs, and stars in."
