THEATER TALK Welcomes HONEYMOON IN VEGAS' Tony Danza & Rob McClure This Week

This week's THEATER TALK revels in show business lore with performers-supreme Tony Danza and Rob McClure, who are now co-starring in the hit musical Honeymoon in Vegas at the Nederlander Theatre. Then the show remembers the late documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles, who died this month at the age of 88.

Honeymoon in Vegas was a popular 1992 film starring James Caan, Nicolas Cage and Sarah Jessica Parker, written and directed by Andrew Bergman. For the musical, Bergman wrote the book, with music and lyrics by three-time Tony® Award winner Jason Robert Brown and direction by Gary Griffin. Although Danza and McClure play rivals in the show, they are anything but in real life, bantering and swapping stories on THEATER TALK with fine comedic precision.

In 2007, Albert Maysles appeared on THEATER TALK to discuss the genesis of his groundbreaking film Grey Gardens (1975; co-directed by David Maysles, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer), the story of Edith Bouvier and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale, the eccentric and destitute cousins of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. By the time of the THEATER TALK interview, the iconic documentary had been issued on a Criterion Collection DVD and adapted into an acclaimed Broadway musical, which won Tony® Awards for Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson. Two years later it would be turned into an Emmy-winning HBO drama starring Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore.

To pay tribute to Maysles, highlights from THEATER TALK's interview are presented.

Hosted by Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins, this THEATER TALK episode premieres in the New York metropolitan area Friday, March 27 (2015) at 1 AM (Saturday morning) on Thirteen/PBS, and continues on CUNY TV* Saturday 3/28 at 8:30 PM, Sunday 3/29 at 12:30 PM, and Monday 3/30 at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 7:30 PM.

THEATER TALK is jointly produced by the not-for-profits Theater Talk Productions and CUNY TV. The program is taped in the Himan Brown TV and Radio Studios at The City University of New York (CUNY) TV in Manhattan, and is distributed to 100+ participating public television stations nationwide. THEATER TALK is made possible in part by The New York State Council on the Arts, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The CUNY TV Foundation and The Friends of THEATER TALK.