Lane, Crudup, Larroquette & Lauria Take Part in THE FRONT PAGE Reading

The New York Times reports this morning that producer Jeffrey Richards held a reading of THE FRONT PAGE, directed by Daniel Sullivan which starred Nathan Lane, Billy Crudup, John Larroquette and Dan Lauria. The paper reports that it was organized to hear if the play was commercially viable, with no word on whether it will enter a full production, or if producers will be after this cast to star. 

THE FRONT PAGE is a landmark comedy by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, set inside the crowded pressroom at Chicago's Criminal Courts Building during the 1920s. In the play, a group of reporters covers a controversial execution and exposes the rampant corruption, scandal and hi-jinx associated with Windy City politics and journalism.

The play is said to be filled a "wealth of local history" embedded in Hecht and MacArthur's semi-autobiographical script and brings to life the toughness and grittiness inherent in its tale of rough-and-tumble reporters and politicians jockeying for control of a story and the city.

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