Burgess, Cooper, Gemignani Join Transport Groups' BOYS NIGHT OUT 1/10

Transport Group, the winner of a special 2007 Drama Desk Award and 2007 and 2010 OBIE Awards, has announced that Titus Burgess (The Little Mermaid, Guys & Dolls), Chuck Cooper (Tony winner for The Life), and Alexander Gemignani (Sweeney Todd, Assassins) have joined The cast of the one-night-only event Boys Night Out: An Evening With...Michael John LaChiusa, which will take place on Monday, January 10, 2011 at 7pm at the Mainstage Theater at Playwrights Horizons, 416 West 42nd Street.

Boys Night Out: An Evening With...Michael John LaChiusa is an intimate evening of talk and song celebrating the male roles from the musical songbook of five-time Tony nominated composer, Michael John LaChiusa, whose works include Little Fish, Marie Christine, See What I Wanna See, Hello Again, and The Wild Party. The evening also features the New York debut of songs from two upcoming world-premiere musicals, Giant and Queen of the Mist.
Boys Night Out: An Evening With...Michael John LaChiusa will be hosted by Mary Testa and will also feature performances by Malcolm Gets, Chad Kimball, Marc Kudisch, Steven Pasquale, Andrew Samonsky, and Bobby Steggert.

Founded in 2001, Transport Group, under the leadership of Jack Cummings III, Artistic Director, and Lori Fineman, Executive Director, is a not-for-profit theatre company that develops and produces work by American Playwrights and composers with the aim of exploring the American consciousness in the 20th and 21st centuries. Transport Group presented its premiere production in 2002: Thornton Wilder's Our Town, which featured actors in their sixties in the roles of Emily and George and a twelve-year-old girl as the Stage Manager. Its second production, Requiem for William, an evening of seven seldom produced plays by William Inge, that featured a cast of 26 as well as original songs, premiered in 2003. In 2004 the company presented the first New York revival of Michael John LaChiusa's First Lady Suite, which received rave reviews, played to sold-out houses, and earned two Drama Desk Award nominations including outstanding revival of a musical. Recent productions include the world premiere of the musical The Audience, which featured a cast of 46 actors and earned three Drama Desk Award nominations, including outstanding musical; Normal, a new musical about a mother's battle to save her daughter from anorexia; cul-de-sac, a new play by Tony Award nominee John Cariani; the first New York revival of Tad Mosel's Pulitzer Prize play, All the Way Home; the 50th anniversary, Obie-winning production of William Inge's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, the world premiere musicals Crossing Brooklyn, Marcy in the Galaxy, and Being Audrey; the first New York revival of Irwin Shaw's Bury the Dead (which received a Drama Desk nomination); and Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band, which received five Drama Desk nominations. Transport Group most recently produced the New York premiere of the musical See Rock City, which was subsequently published by Samuel French. Both First Lady Suite and Bury the Dead were filmed for the New York Performing Arts Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive. Transport Group is the winner of a special 2007 Drama Desk Award for its "breadth of vision and its presentation of challenging productions."

For tickets ($55 - $125) and more information, please phone the Transport Group office at (212) 564-0333 or visit www.transportgroup.org.

Photo Credit: Linda Lenzi