This is a Playbill from the Thursday October 13 evening preview performance of Broadway's The Front Page at the Broadhurst Theatre.
The classic 1928 Hecht/MacArthur comedy about fast-talking newspaper reporter returns to Broadway in a new production starring two-time Tony Award winner Nathan Lane leading an all-star cast including John Slattery, John Goodman, Jefferson Mays, Sherie Rene Scott, Holland Taylor, Robert Morse and Dylan Baker directed by Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien.
SYNOPSIS: A managing editor of a Chicago newspaper fights to keep his star reporter on the story of a condemned anarchist's jailbreak, when the reporter is ready to quit and get married.
PLAYWRIGHT: BEN HECHT, CHARLES MACARTHUR
The full cast is as follows:
- Nathan Lane as Walter Burns
- John Slattery as Hildy Johnson
- John Goodman as Sheriff Hartman
- Jefferson Mays as Bensinger
- Holland Taylor as Mrs. Grant
- Sherie Rene Scott as Mollie Malloy
- Robert Morse as Mr. Pincus
- Dylan Baker as McCue
- Patricia Conolly as Jennie
- Halley Feiffer as Peggy Grant
- Dann Florek as The Mayor
- John Magaro as Earl Williams
- Danny Mastrogiorgio as Diamond Louie
- Christopher McDonald as Murphy
- David Pittu as Schwartz
- Joey Slotnick as Wilson
- Lewis J. Stadlen as Endicott
- Micah Stock as Woodenshoes Eichorn
- Clarke Thorell as Kruger
- Joe Forbrich as Frank, Diamond Louie, Hildy Johnson
- Richard Gallagher as A Boy Scout, Earl Williams, Tony, Second Policeman, Woodenshoes Eichhorn
- Michael X. Martin as Tony, Policeman, McCue, Sheriff Hartman, The Mayor
- Drew McVety, as A Sailor, Frank, Kruger, Murphy, Policeman
- Jonathan Spivey, as Second Policeman, Bensinger, Carl, Mr. Pincus
- Tony Ward as Carl, Endicott, Schwartz, Wilson
- Caroline Hewitt as Mollie Malloy (Understudy), Peggy Grant (Understudy)
- Pippa Pearthree as Jennie (Understudy), Mrs. Grant (Understudy)