F. Murray Abraham and Stockard Channing Join Megan Mullally & More in Broadway-Bound IT'S ONLY A PLAY

Producers Tom Kirdahy, Roy Furman, and Ken Davenport announced today that Academy Award® winner F. Murray Abraham, Tony Award® winner Matthew Broderick, Tony Award® winner Stockard Channing, Tony Award®winner Nathan Lane, Emmy Award® winner Megan Mullally, and Micah Stock will star on Broadway in a newly revised version of Terrence McNally's uproarious comedy, It's Only a Play, which first premiered in New York in 1986 at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Tony Award® winner Jack O'Brien will direct. Additional casting will be announced shortly. The production will play a strictly limited 17-week engagement at Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45th Street) beginning this fall, 2014, with an opening night set for Thursday, October 9.

In It's Only a Play, it's opening night of Peter Austin's (Matthew Broderick) new play as he anxiously awaits to see if his show is a hit. With his career on the line, he shares his big First Night with his best friend, a television star (Nathan Lane), his fledgling producer (Megan Mullally), his erratic leading lady (Stockard Channing), his wunderkind director, an infamous drama critic, and a wide-eyed coat check attendant on his first night in Manhattan. It's alternately raucous, ridiculous and tender - reminding audiences why there's no business like show business. Thank God!

Mr. McNally-a four-time Tony® Award winning playwright-recently celebrated the premiere of his 20th Broadway production,Mothers and Sons, which marks his 50th year on Broadway. Mothers and Sons is nominated for Best Play at the 2014 Tony®Awards, and currently plays at the Golden Theatre.

Tickets for It's Only a Play will be available to American Express® Card Members through an exclusive pre-sale beginning today, Wednesday, June 4, through Wednesday, June 11, by visiting Telecharge.com. Tickets will go on sale to the general public beginning Thursday, June 12. For groups of 20 or more, call 855-329-2932. For more info, visit www.ItsOnlyAPlay.com.