Joe Masteroff, Marle Becker & Jon Marans To Appear At 'The TEMPERMENTALS' Millitant Mondays Talkback Tonight 8/10

Tonight - Monday August 10th the hit show "The Temperamentals" by Jon Marans continues the hit Militant Mondays, series of talk backs following the performance. Joe Masteroff, Marle Becker & Jon Marans will lead the lively discussion this evening. It will be moderated by Stacy Shane. "The Temperamentals" is Off Broadway at the TBG Theater, 312 West 36 Street 3rd Floor, NYC. MANunderdog and Daryl Roth are presenting the new American play. Thomas Jay Ryan plays Harry Hay and Michael Urie (TV's "Ugly Betty") is Rudi Gernreich, with Tom Beckett, Matthew Schneck, and Sam Breslin Wright completing the cast.

The acclaimed play is directed by Jonathan Silverstein. 2hrs & 15 mins Including intermission

Joe Masteroff is a Tony Award-winning. He served with the Air Force during World War II. He studied with the American Theatre Wing from 1949-1951 and began his career as an actor, making his Broadway debut in "The Prescott Proposals" in 1953. Following a national tour, his first play, "The Warm Peninsula", opened on Broadway in 1959 with Julie Harris, June Havoc, Farley Granger, and Larry Hagman in the leads. In 1963 he wrote the book for the Sheldon Harnick-Jerry Bock musical "She Loves Me", which garnered him a Tony Award nomination for Best Author of a Musical. Three years later, Hal Prince hired him to write the book for "Cabaret" which won the Tony for Best Musical and ran for 1165 performances and has since had numerous revivals.

Masteroff also has written the libretto for an operatic adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's "Desire Under the Elms" and the book and lyrics for other musicals. Marle Becker is a long time gay activist and the co-host of the popular show "Out NY/FM" on WBAI. He has also been a music critic for the station and was the former host for a number of years of radio's "The Gay Show." He is also a past Board of Directors member for: Stonewall Democratic Club; Gay Veterans Association; Gay Performance Company; Village Visiting Neighbors Association as well as member of the Steering Committee Metro New York Names Project (AIDS Quilt) and Heritage of Price to only name a few. He has worked on numerous political campaigns since 1965 as well as been involved in volunteering and fundraising for numerous GLBT organizations and events. Jon Marans' "Old Wicked Songs" was a 1996 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama, winner of New York Drama League, L.A. Drama Logue Award, and included in Otis Guernsey's Best Plays of 1996-97.

It has been produced in over a dozen countries including in London's West End with Bob Hoskins and James Callis. Jon and Yuri Sivo were hired by Universal Pictures and Tribeca Films to write a political/war screenplay based on the acclaimed book CHASING THE DRAGON. Robert DeNiro is slated to play the role of Henry Luce. Stacy Shane / MAN underdog LLC (Producer) with Daryl Roth of "The Temperamentals" also produced "Who You See Here" by Matt Hoverman (co-produced with The Barrow Group Theatre Company), and Bill C. Davis' "My Expatriate" at Manhattan Theatre Source.

"The Temperamentals" tells the story of two men - the communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee and designer Rudi Gernreich - as they fall in love while building the first gay rights organization in the United States pre Stonewall. The play weaves together the personal and political to tell a relatively unknown chapter in gay history. It explores the love between two complex men, as their impossible dream of forming such an unheard of organization becomes a reality in this perilous, unpredictable world.

It is an intimate portrayal of the men who created history and the epic struggles they overcame. The characters consist of the actual men who founded the Mattachine Society (Harry Hay, Rudi Gernreich, Chuck Rowland, Bob Hull, and Dale Jennings), as well as other prominent figures of the time. www.thetemperamentals.com

Shows are: Friday-Tuesday 8pm & matinees Saturday & Sunday 3pm through August 23rd. Tickets are $50 through Smarttix: online at www.smarttix.com or by phone at (212) 868-4444.

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