On the June 7 edition of the variety show Maya and Marty, Broadway star Nathan Lane did a skit in which he played a kidnapped actor who drives his abductor to distraction trying to get his ransom video exactly right.
Lane is expected to return to Broadway this season in a revival of The Front Page.
Watch the video here:
Surrounded by period accurate 19th-century holiday decorations lit via candlelight, the 70-minute production is based on Dickens' own script of the classic.
Patrick Marber is directing the Tony-winning musical at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
The late Tony winner will be honored at Broadway's St. James Theatre December 2.
The conductor is overseeing Tosca and Die Frau ohne Schatten.
The Songbook Sundays series will continue with an evening celebrating the work of the composer of Anything Goes and Kiss Me, Kate.
This month, the South Korean pianist presents Chopin's Second Concerto.
Directed and adapted by Igor Golyak, the revival is part of the Arlekin in Residency series at the Lynn F. Angelson Theater Off-Broadway.
The vocals you hear from Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande was recorded live on set.
The production will be performed in Singer's original Yiddish with English supertitles.
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