Seldes, Ruehl, Halston, Etc. Star in Royal Family Reading

An upcoming staged reading of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's 1927 classic The Royal Family has drawn a starry cast.

Tony Award-winner Marian Seldes (Dinner at Eight, Deathtrap, A Delicate Balance), Tony Award-winner Mercedes Ruehl (The Goat, Lost in Yonkers), Daniel Gerroll (Enchanted April, High Society), Jessica Grové (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Les Miserables), Tony Award-nominee Paul Hecht (The Invention of Love, Noises Off), and Julie Halston (Gypsy, Hairspray) will headline the reading of the classic about an eccentric theatrical clan.  The reading will take place at the John Drew Theatre at East Hampton's Guild Hall on Friday, October 27th at 8 PM.

Tony Award-winner designer and director Tony Walton will helm The Royal Family, which will also feature Jack Ryland, Shashi Balooja, Kate Mueth, and Josh Gladstone, with more casting to be announced.

"The Royal Family is essentially a love-letter to, and satire of, life in the theater. Its titular family, the Cavendishes, seems to be a thinly veiled parody of the (at the time) all-powerful Barrymore clan, although the authors always denied this. Across three acts, this family of grotesques squabbles, struts and swoons its way through one domestic crisis after another, as various outsiders stand gaping on the sidelines," state Guild Hall notes.

Tickets are $18 for Guild Hall members, and $20 for general audiences.  Visit www.guildhall.org for tickets and more information.