Photo Coverage: ELLING Opening Night - Curtain and Party
By: Kevin Thomas Garcia Nov. 22, 2010
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Brendan Fraser and Denis O'Hare star in ELLING on Broadway with Jennifer Coolidge in ELLING, new comedy from London, directed by Tony Award-winner Doug Hughes. ELLING began performances Tuesday, November 2, opened Sunday, November 21 on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre 243 West 47th Street and will play a strictly limited engagement through March 20, 2011.
The show opened last night and BroadwayWorld.com was there!
ELLING is based on the popular original novels by Ingvar Ambjørnsen and adapted for the Oscar nominated film and the stage by Axel Hellstenius and Petter Næss, in a new English adaptation by critically hailed writer Simon Bent. ELLING played the West End and was nominated for the Lawrence Olivier Award for Comedy of the Year.
Set in the current day, ELLING is a comedy about a wildly mismatched pair of roommates trying to embrace life, love, friendship, pizza, poetry and women.
Denis O'Hare plays obsessive/compulsive Elling. Brendan Fraser, plays the wildly enthusiastic gentle giant Kjell. Jennifer Coolidge plays Reidun, the object of Kjell's considerable affection, Richard Easton plays Alfons, Elling's unlikely poet mentor and Jeremy Shamos plays Frank, an inquisitive social worker. ELLING had a critically acclaimed stage premiere at the Bush Theatre in London and transferred to the West End.
Photo Credit: Kevin Thomas Garcia
Denis O'Hare and Brendan Fraser
Richard Easton, Denis O'Hare, Brendan Fraser, Jennifer Coolidge and Jeremy Shamos
Brendan Fraser, Jennifer Coolidge and Jeremy Shamos
Brendan Fraser and Denis O'Hare
Brendan Fraser and Denis O'Hare
Brendan Fraser, Jennifer Coolidge, Denis O'Hare and Jeremy Shamos
Brendan Fraser, Jennifer Coolidge, Denis O'Hare and Jeremy Shamos
Jennifer Coolidge and Denis O'Hare
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