Photo Coverage: REASON TO BE HAPPY'S Opening Night Theatre Arrivals!
By: Walter McBride Jun. 12, 2013
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MCC Theater recently announced that Neil LaBute's new play, Reasons to be Happy, also directed by LaBute, will now extend through Saturday, June 29th. Reasons to Be Happy is a companion piece to LaBute's critically-acclaimed award-winning play,Reasons to Be Pretty, first produced at MCC Theater in 2008 before moving to Broadway where it was nominated for three 2009 Tony Awards, including Best Play. Performances began at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street, NYC) on May 16, 2013. It officially opened last night and BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the theatre arrivals below!
Emmy Award nominee Jenna Fischer, making her Off-Broadway debut, joins Reasons to be Happy as the ninth and final season of NBC's smash hit "The Office" comes to a close. Also making her Off-Broadway debut is Leslie Bibb, who has appeared in films such as Iron Man and Talladega Nights and on television in ABC's "GCB" and The CW's "Popular," among many others. Both are join by stage veteran Josh Hamilton, who has appeared on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning hits The Coast of Utopia and Proof; and Fred Weller, an MCC alum who also starred on Broadway in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Take Me Out as well as acclaimed revivals of Edward Albee's Seascape and David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross.
Photo Credit: Walter McBride
Theatre Marquee for the Opening Night Performance of the MCC Theater's Production of 'Reasons To Be Happy' at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York City on June 11, 2013
Theatre Marquee
Neil LaBute Star on sidewalk
Paul Rudd; Bobby Cannavale holding hands
Paul Rudd; Bobby Cannavale holding hands
Stephen Belber; Dominic Fumusa
Will Cantler, Bernie Telsey, Robert LuPone and Blake West
Evan Jonigkeit; Paul Downs Colaizzo
Josh Charles with wife Sophie Flack
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