Rondi Reed Set for MAKING GOD LAUGH Reading, 3/25

Tony Award winner Rondi Reed is set to  participate in a reading of Making God Laugh, written by Sean Grennan on March 25.  The private presentation will take place at 3 PM in the Irish Repertory Theatre's Studio Theatre at 132 W. 22nd Street.

Directed by Kathe Mull, other cast members include: Joel Hatch (Adding Machine, Billy Elliot), Jeff Talbott (Frost of St. Louis Rep/Geva's Frost/Nixon), Erin Grennan (Chicago First Folio's Taming of the Shrew) and Michael Paul Smith (MCC's The Naked Hour, Irish Rep's Yeats).

Making God Laugh is a comedy about the adult lives of an American family - three siblings return home for the holidays spread over 30 years, with the first scene taking place Thanksgiving of 1980, and the last on Easter of 2010.

Rondi Reed has starred in plays on Broadway including The Rise and Fall of Little Voice as Mari Hoffand and Mrs. Wainwright in The Grapes of Wrath. In 2005, she originated the role of Madame Morrible in the Chicago company of the musical Wicked. After playing Madame Morrible for nearly two years, she left the show on May 8, 2007 and was replaced by Barbara Robertson. She originated the role of Mattie Fae Aiken in the Broadway play August: Osage County for which she won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. Reed returned to the Chicago company of Wicked to reprise the role of Madame Morrible beginning June 27, 2008. Barbara Robertson once again replaced Reed on November 18, 2008. Since November 2008, she reprised her role as Mattie Fae Aiken in August: Osage County in London which also features many members of the Original Broadway Company. It will end its limited engagement in February 2009. Reed is currently reprising the role of Madame Morrible in the Broadway production of Wicked, beginning March 17, 2009 where she replaced Jayne Houdyshell.

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