Harvey Fierstein Hosts 'The Catered Affair' on TCM Nov.26

Turner Classic Movies will welcome four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein on Monday, November 26, 2007 for their November "Guest Programmer Month."  Beginning at 8PM (EST), Fierstein will join host Robert Osborne in conversation about some of his favorite films that TCM will air that evening.  First up will be The Catered Affair, the MGM film on which Fierstein's new Broadway-bound musical, A Catered Affair, is partly based.

Fierstein explains to Osborne that he first fell in love with The Catered Affair when he saw a rare televised showing of it many years ago. Fierstein's other film selections to be aired that night are The Women (1936), The Boy with Green Hair (1948) and The Devil Is a Sissy (1936).

The Broadway production of A Catered Affair, the new musical with book by Fierstein, score by John Bucchino and directed by Tony Award-winner John Doyle, will play the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street) beginning Tuesday, March 25, 2008 with an official opening night set for Thursday, April 17. 

The production will star Tony Award-winner Faith Prince as 'Aggie Hurley,' the mother-of-the-bride, Tony Award-nominee Tom Wopat as 'Tom Hurley,' the father-of-the-bride, Harvey Fierstein as 'Winston,' the uncle-of-the-bride, Leslie Kritzer as 'Jane Hurley,' the bride-to-be and Matt Cavenaugh as 'Ralph Halloran,' the groom-to-be.  The featured cast includes Philip Hoffman, Katie Klaus, Heather MacRae, Lori Wilner and Kristine Zbornik.  A Catered Affair recently completed a sold-out engagement at San Diego's The Old Globe Theatre prior to its upcoming Broadway engagement.

"A Catered Affair, Broadway's newest musical, is about the question that eventually faces every mother and daughter: Whose wedding is it anyway?  One New York family's dilemma in the early 50's is now a funny and poignant new show of love and disaffection," explain press notes. Tony Award-winner Faith Prince and Tony Award-nominee Tom Wopat star as the mother and father of the bride, and four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein is the uncle, outraged to discover he's not "immediate family."  Written by Harvey Fierstein and songwriter John Bucchino, and directed by Tony Award-winner John Doyle, A Catered Affair is the perfect marriage of music and comedy, celebrating Bronx family values: love, guilt and a choice of entrees.