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Parker and Cumming Headline Reading of New Carter Beane Play
By: BWW News Desk Jan. 25, 2006
Based in part on a real-life incident in which former Post columnist Aileen Mehle wrote about a far-away society fete despite being on vacation in the Lesser Antilles, the reading will feature Parker and Cumming as a married pair of gossip columnists who work for a paper that is "very proudly owned by an Australian." In Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost, Too, the mendacious writers make up celebrity stories to their hearts' content--before things get out of hand.
According to Michael Riedel, Parker has been shopping around for a Broadway play with which she can star opposite husband Matthew Broderick. "Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost, Too just might fit the bill....People who attended the reading said the play is a sophisticated, urban comedy in which the couple fire off snappy lines the way Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn did in the classic newspaper movie, Woman of the Year."
Parker is an actress equally at ease in the worlds of theatre, film and television. Perhaps best known to most audiences for her role as Carrie Bradshaw on HBO's "Sex and the City," she has appeared on Broadway in Annie (in the title role), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (opposite husband Matthew Broderick), and Once Upon a Mattress. Her off-Broadway credits include The Substance of Fire, Sylvia and Wonder of the World, while State and Main, Mars Attacks!, The First Wives Club, Ed Wood, Honeymoon in Vegas and Hocus Pocus are some of her film credits. The Family Stone is her most recent film.
Douglas Carter Beane, who also penned As Bees in Honey Drown, is also responsible for the hit Hollywood satire The Little Dog Laughed, currently running at Second Stage. The possibility of a Broadway transfer for that property was recently announced, as well.
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