TWITTER WATCH: Michael McKean - 'Standing O's at the Music Box'

BroadwayWorld.com presents its newest column, Twitter Watch, which will bring you only the best and most interesting reports straight from the mouths of Broadway stars, shows and more on the hot social networking service - Twitter!

Today our Twitter Watch spotlight shines on theatre, film, television and music star Michael McKean. A BroadwayWorld.com favorite, the actor is currently lighting up the boards in Tracey Lett's Superior Donuts at The Music Box Theatre.

MJMcKean

Standing O's at the Music Box; ain't boastin' just proud of Mr Letts & Co.
31 minutes ago from mobile web

If you've never read a Nero Wolfe novel, you've got a big, fat pile of them; Rex Stout only wrote about sixty of the things.
about 3 hours ago from web

@cjvanston Thanks for the flamenco shredder. We're a week from opening Superior Donuts. Previews going well. Love to Toni. Mikey
about 3 hours ago from web in reply to cjvanston

@dayna1975 The Dating Game episode was pretty good; The Duke of Squigmann; Hi Neighbors, Book II; the murder mystery on the train...
about 14 hours ago from web in reply to dayna1975

Just to be clear: I have no problem with a person being born again as long as they remember to grow up again.
7:38 AM Sep 23rd from web

@tejas74 Best thing about BibleMan is the villains' make-up: always dark-haired, swarthy, BIG noses...what's the subtext here, Willie?
7:26 AM Sep 23rd from web in reply to tejas74

@MalininGrl I'm 61. Too old to be washed up. And I'm having too much fun.
9:23 PM Sep 22nd from web in reply to MalininGrl

Speaking of post-adolescent middle-aged born-again kid stars, Kirk can't hold a candle to Willie Aames. Hip to BibleMan? Worth looking up!
9:21 PM Sep 22nd from web

Kirk Cameron is planning his big push to discredit Darwin. Yes, THAT Kirk Cameron.
3:33 PM Sep 22nd from mobile web

Love the footage of Fox News producer Heidi Noonan cheerleading the "fair and balanced" teabaggers from not quite off-camera.
11:37 AM Sep 22nd from mobile web

New Pearl Jam is excellent. My idea of an American r'n'r band.
7:10 AM Sep 22nd from mobile web

The Missus is here from DC for the day! Can't talk. Carry on!
8:58 AM Sep 21st from mobile web

Long week, boys and girls. The play I rockin' and the old man's hangin' in there. Thanks, all.
9:15 PM Sep 20th from mobile web

The guy who wrote the article entitled, "Is God Dead" in Time magazine years ago has passed away. Supply your own punchline.
9:57 AM Sep 20th from web

Michael McKean will reprise his role as donut shop owner Arthur Przybyszewski in the Broadway premiere of Steppenwolf Theatre Company's new American play Superior Donuts, by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning ensemble member Tracy Letts, directed by ensemble member Tina Landau. Mr. McKean originated the role during Superior Donuts' sold-out, world premiere at Steppenwolf last summer. 

Superior Donuts, Steppenwolf's new American play by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning ensemble member Tracy Letts will follow Letts' Tony Award-winning play August: Osage County into The Music Box Theatre (239 West 45th Street), began preview performances on Wednesday, September 16, 2009, with an official opening set for Thursday, October 1, 2009.

Directed by ensemble member Tina Landau, Superior Donuts makes its Broadway debut direct from its sold-out world premiere at Steppenwolf last summer. August: Osage County closed its run at The Music Box on Sunday, June 28, 2009. Tickets for Superior Donuts are on sale through Telecharge.com or by calling 212-239-6200 and at the Music Theatre box office.

The Steppenwolf production of Superior Donuts is produced on Broadway by Jeffrey Richards, Jean Doumanian, and Jerry Frankel, the producing team behind Steppenwolf's August: Osage County.

Michael McKean most recently appeared on Broadway in the critically acclaimed 2008 revival of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, for which he received a Drama Desk award for Best Ensemble. His other Broadway credits include the 2006 Tony Award winning revival of The Pajama Game, Accomplice (Theatre World Award) and Hairspray. Off-Broadway: Woody Allen's A Second Hand Memory. London: Love Song. TV: Series regular on Laverne & Shirley, Dream On, Sessions, Tracy Takes On, Saturday Night Live, Primetime Glick. Guest appearances include Friends, The X Files, The Simpsons, Law & Order, Smallville, Alias, Boston Legal. Film: This is Spinal Tap (also co-wrote), Clue, Coneheads, The Brady Bunch Movie, True Crime, Jack, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, Joshua, The Grand, many more. Composed music for several of the above and co-wrote (with Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy) the Grammy-winning theme to A Mighty Wind and the Oscar-nominated "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow," written with wife Annette O'Toole.

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