Photo Coverage: Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me Opens

Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, a new musical starring the Tony Award-winning funnyman,�opened on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (242 West 45th Street) on Thursday, August 17, 2006; previews started Saturday, July 29.

Conceived by Short and Scott Wittman, Fame Becomes Me features a book by Short and Daniel Goldfarb (Modern Orthodox) and music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Wittman and Shaiman (Hairspray). Directed by Wittman, the show previously played Toronto's Canon Theatre and Chicago's LaSalle Bank Theatre.

"Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me features Short in a tour de force guiding us through an improbable version of his life story. Backed by a brilliant cast of top Broadway performers (who constantly steal focus from Mr. Short when he's not looking), Short's transparent play for love and attention asks the burning question, does an autobiography really have to be true?," state press notes. The show features Brooks Ashmanskas, Mary Birdsong, Capathia Jenkins and Nicole Parker playing a wide variety of different characters, both real and imagined, who figure into Short's parallel reality.

For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit www.martinshortthemusical.com.

Photos by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.

Sara Gettelfinger

Billy Crystal�and wife

Daniel Goldfarb

Brian Stokes Mitchell and Alyson Tucker-Mitchell

Chevy Chase and Family

Harry Smith

Gray Don Carter

Jerry Seinfeld and wife

Jerry Seinfeld

Jerry Mitchell

James Marsden

Kristen Johnston and Scott Wittman

Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker

The show's marquee at the Jacobs Theatre

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson

Martin Short and Marc Shaiman

Martin Short

Mary Birdsong

Capathia Jenkins

Brooks Ashmanskas, Nicole Parker, Capathia Jenkins, Mary Birdsong and Marc Shaiman

Nicole Parker, Brooks Ashmanskas, Martin Short, Capathia Jenkins, Mary Birdsong and Marc Shaiman

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After his life as an ingenue in Brooklyn & Queens, Walter spent the next 25 Years in a leading role as a Photographer / Photo Researcher in Manhattan. He is currently headlining in New Jersey with his partner Richard and children Dali & Gala. As a 14 year old youth, Walter was transfixed by his first Broadway Show, the original production of "GREASE". His journey on the path to celebrity photojournalism began that fateful night. Meeting, photographing and getting to know the cast inspired him to spend his professional life doing what he loved. His photography is syndicated worldwide through Retna Ltd. and Corbis.

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