Photo Coverage: CASA VALENTINA Company Celebrates Opening Night!
By: Jennifer Broski Apr. 24, 2014
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Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of Casa Valentina, the play by four-time Tony Award winnerHarvey Fierstein, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello just opened last night, April 23, 2014 at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street). BroadwayWorld was there for all of the opening night festivities and you can check out photos from the curtain call and after party below!
The cast features Drama Desk Award winner Reed Birney (Taking Care of Baby at MTC, Blasted), Tony Award winner John Cullum (The Scottsboro Boys, "ER"), Tony Award winner Gabriel Ebert(Matilda, 4000 Miles), Obie Award winner Lisa Emery (Lonely, I'm Not; Iron at MTC), Tony Award nominee Tom McGowan(Wicked, "Everybody Loves Raymond"), Drama Desk Award nominee Patrick Page (Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, Cyrano de Bergerac), Larry Pine (The Royal Family, "House of Cards"), Drama Desk Award winner Nick Westrate (Loot, Tribes), and Emmy Award winner and Oscar nominee Mare Winningham (Picnic,"Hatfields & McCoys").
Back in 1962, most men went to the Catskill Mountains to escape the summer heat, but others took the two-hour drive to escape something else entirely: being men. Nestled in the land of dirty dancing and borscht belt comedy sat an inconspicuous bungalow colony that catered to a very special clientele: heterosexual men whose favorite pastime was dressing and acting as women. It was paradise for these men-white-collar professionals with families-to spend their weekends discreetly and safely inhabiting their chosen female alter egos. But when they got the opportunity to share their secret lives with the world, these "self-made women" had to decide whether the freedom they would gain by emerging from hiding was worth the risk of personal ruin.
Photo Credit: Jennifer Broski
Gabriel Ebert, Mare Winningham, Tom McGowan, Patrick Page
Reed Birney, Larry Pine, Lisa Emery
Nick Westrate, John Cullum, Gabriel Ebert, Tom McGowan, Patrick Page, Mare Winningham, Reed Birney, Larry Pine, Lisa Emery
Mare Winningham, Harvey Fierstein
Gabriel Ebert, Mare Winningham, Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Fierstein, Reed Birney, Patrick Page, Lisa Emery, John Cullum, Larry Pine, Nick Westrate, Gabriel Ebert, Mare Winningham, Tom McGowan
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