LOMBARDI featured on Showtime's Inside the NFL 10/27

Tune in tomorrow night Wednesday October 27 at 9 PM when Showtime's "Inside the NFL" comes to Broadway and interviews the cast of Broadway's LOMBARDI starring Dan Lauria and Judith Light, and gets a backstage tour as well.

"Eric Simonson has given us an extremely well-crafted piece of intelligent middlebrow theater, a regular-guy equivalent of Frost/Nixon. A good one for the guys. It is both tasty and filling. I know nothing about football and less about the Green Bay Packers, but LOMBARDI held my attention from start to finish, and when it was over, I went home feeling properly entertained." Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal

"A fantastic production!" Star Ledger

"You don't need to be a football fan to enjoy Lombardi." Sandy Kenyon, ABC

"There's a place for LOMBARDI in the Broadway huddle... It is theatrical catnip for husbands or boyfriends otherwise reluctant to see most Broadway shows: Football! Vince Lombardi! The legendary Packers!" The Associated Press

"Go! And have a good time." David Richardson, WOR

"If you're a football fan and if you're going to be in New York, it's a no-brainer addition to the visit." NBC Sports.com

"Even if you never cared about Lombardi, you will enjoy LOMBARDI. And that really is everything." Mike Vaccaro, New York Post

"Football fans reared on endless loops of the legendary Green Bay Packers coach's highlights on NFL Films will leave the play fulfilled, while those who don't know Vince Lombardi from Carole Lombard will also be pleased." Mike Vaccaro, New York Post

"I know what I like, and I liked this show." Peter King, Sports Illustrated

"I loved LOMBARDI" Fox Five

"LOMBARDI is not just for football fans, it's for anyone who wants to strive to succeed and overcome, especially in these challenging times. It is entertaining and shows people what can be done if you work hard and succeed. A solid experience for anyone." -New Jersey Newsroom.com

"You should see this play" New York Post

"A rare Broadway drama that's also a real crowd-pleaser." AOL

"Pick your favorite sports cliché and insert it here-Lombardi on Broadway is a winner . The actors make this show one of the winningest sports plays ever produced." Broadway.tv

"Sports fans will get a huge kick out of the it, but there's plenty for the uninitiated as well. As entertainment, LOMBARDI scores points." Roma Torre, NY1

"With its uniformly good cast, tight direction and frequent flashes of humor, Lombardi is solid playing in every sense of the word." David Cote, Time Out New York

"You don't need to be a football fan to enjoy Lombardi." - ABC News

"Fascinating." Mike Vaccaro, New York Post

"It breathes fresh life into Lombardi's spirit." Mike Vaccaro, New York Post

"LOMBARDI presents a great opportunity for female theater-goers to get their husbands to see a Broadway play. But it's more than that." Craig Ellenport, NFL.com

"Lombardi" is as entertaining and as moving an experience as you'll find on Broadway this season." Yahoo! Sports

"If you're married to a football guy or a sports guys who never wants to go to theatre at all. He's going to like this." Joan Hamburg, WOR

Written by Academy Award winner Eric Simonson and directed by Tony Award nominee Thomas Kail, LOMBARDI is based on the best-selling biography When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss. Joining producers Tony Ponturo and Fran Kirmser as special producing partner is the National Football League, marking the organization's first foray on Broadway.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.telecharge.com<http://www.telecharge.com>, by phone at 212-239-6200, or in person at the Box Office (50th Street, West of Broadway).