PRIVATE LIVES Box Office Opens Monday

Broadway's Music Box Theatre box office (239 West 45th Street) will open this Monday October 16 for Noel Coward's PRIVATE LIVES starring Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross and directed by Richard Eyre. PRIVATE LIVES comes to Broadway after a sold-out London run and is currently playing at Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre.

The Telegraph (London) gave the production four stars and called it "Wonderfully funny and fabulously sexy, PRIVATE LIVES has lost none of its allure."

The Toronto Star gave it four stars and said "PRIVATE LIVES is sexy, stylish and smart."
Broadway previews begin on Sunday November 6 and opening night is Thursday November 17. The limited engagement runs through February 5 2012.

Kim Cattrall, an international star of film, TV and stage, starred as Amanda in Sir Richard Eyre's production of PRIVATE LIVES at London's Vaudeville Theatre in 2010. The production received rave reviews from the critics and played a sell-out season. She is joined by Paul Gross in the role of Elyot. One of Canada's most acclaimed actors, Gross starred in such TV shows as Due South and Slings and Arrows. The cast is completed by Simon Paisley Day, Anna Madeley and Caroline Olsson.

Considered one of the greatest comedies ever written, Noël Coward's PRIVATE LIVES premiered in London in 1930 and has been produced around the world ever since; it premiered on Broadway in 1931. Glamorous, rich and reckless, Amanda (Cattrall) and Elyot (Gross) have been divorced from each other for five years. Now both are honeymooning with their new spouses in the South of France. When, by chance, they meet again across adjoining hotel balconies, their insatiable feelings for each other are immediately rekindled. They hurl themselves headlong into love and lust without a care for scandal, new partners or memories of what drove them apart in the first place...for a little while, anyway.

The design team is Rob Howell (set and costumes) and David Howe (lighting). PRIVATE LIVES is produced by Duncan C. Weldon, Paul Elliott, Theatre Royal Bath, Terri and Timothy Childs, Sonia Friedman Productions and David Mirvish.

Tickets are available through www.telecharge.com. The playing schedule is Tue. @ 7 PM, Wed.-Sat. @at 8 PM, Wed. & Sat. @ 2 PM, Sun. @ 3 PM. Tickets are $121.50 and $66.50 at all performances except Wednesday matinee when they are $121.50 and $46.50.