According to The Hollywood Reporter, actors Jamie Lee Curtis, Jane Lynch and Martin Sheen will join the cast of the one-night-only reading of Dustin Lance Black's play 8 in Los Angeles.
The play, which chronicles the historic legal challenge to California's Proposition 8, will include previously announced cast members George Clooney, Matt Bomer, Campbell Brown, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Cleve Jones, Christine Lahti, Matthew Morrison, Rory O'Malley, Yeardley Smith and George Takei. The play will premiere at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles on March 3rd.
According to the report, Clooney and Sheen will portray the roles of the plaintiffs' lead co-counsel David Boies and Theodore B. Olson. Christine Lahti and Jamie Lee Curtis will star as the plaintiffs Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, a lesbian couple who are the parents of four boys. 'Glee' star Jane Lynch will appear as the outspoken opponent of marriage equality Maggie Gallagher, co-founder and former chairman of the National Organization for Marriage.
The show premiered with an all-star cast including Bob Balaban, Ellen Barkin, Matt Bomer, Campbell Brown, Anthony Edwards, K. Todd Freeman, Morgan Freeman, Jayne Houdyshell, Cheyenne Jackson, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Larry Kramer, Christine Lahti, Ken Leung, John Lithgow, Rory O'Malley, Rob Reiner, Ben Rosenfield, Kate Shindle, Yeardley Smith, Stephen Spinella and Bradley Whitford on Broadway on September 19, 2011 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
Rob Reiner, who directed the New York installment, will additionally direct the LA engagement. Proceeds from the LA reading will be granted to the American Foundation for Equal Rights. Proceeds from the New York reading similarly went directly to the fight for full federal marriage equality and to support educational efforts on the freedom to marry nationwide.
