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Photo Coverage: Jason Alexander and Cast of THE PORTUGUESE KID Celebrate Opening Night
By: Walter McBride Oct. 25, 2017
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The Portuguese Kid, a new play written and directed by Tony, Pulitzer Prize, and Academy Award winner John Patrick Shanley, opened last night, Tuesday, October 24, at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street). BroadwayWorld was there at the opening night celebration and brings you photos of the cast below!
The cast of The Portuguese Kid stars Tony Award winner Jason Alexander (six-time Emmy Award nominee for "Seinfeld," Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Merrily We Roll Along), Pico Alexander (Punk Rock, What I Did Last Summer, Home Again), Aimee Carrero ("Young & Hungry," "Elena of Avalor," and the upcoming "American Horror Story"), three-time Tony Award nominee Sherie Rene Scott (The Front Page, Whorl Inside a Loop, Everyday Rapture), and two time Tony nominee and Drama Desk Award winner Mary Testa (The Government Inspector, First Daughter Suite, Queen of the Mist).
In Providence, Rhode Island, habitually widowed Atalanta (Sherie Rene Scott) pays a visit to her second-rate lawyer Barry Dragonetti (Jason Alexander). Intending to settle her latest husband's affairs, this larger-than-life Greek tightwad quickly becomes a nightmare for her cheesy, self-aggrandizing attorney. Add Barry's impossible Croatian mother (Mary Testa), a dash of current politics and a couple of opportunistic young lovers, and you have in hand a recipe for comic combustion.
This feisty romantic comedy could only come from John Patrick Shanley, the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the MTC hits Doubt and Outside Mullingar, and the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Moonstruck. The Portuguese Kid marks MTC's 12th collaboration with Shanley, a partnership that spans over three decades.
Photo credit: Walter McBride
Jason Alexander and Sherie Rene Scott
Jason Alexander, Sherie Rene Scott, Mary Testa, Aimee Carrero, Pico Alexander
Jason Alexander and Sherie Rene Scott
Jason Alexander, Sherie Rene Scott, Mary Testa, Aimee Carrero, Pico Alexander
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