"ZERO HOUR," Jim Brochu's acclaimed play about the life of theatre legend Zero Mostel, will end its limited 11-week engagement at Theatre at St. Clement's this Sunday, January 31st. The show's producers recently announced that "ZERO HOUR" is set to reopen at the DR2 Theatre (103 East 15th Street) for an open-ended run beginning February 24th.
Three-time Academy Award nominee
Piper Laurie directs "ZERO HOUR," which was originally produced in Los Angeles where it received the Ovation Award for Best New Play. And just this week, "ZERO HOUR" received two
Helen Hayes Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor and Outstanding Non-Resident Production.
Starring
Jim Brochu as
Zero Mostel, "ZERO HOUR" is set at Mostel's West 28th Street painting studio where a naïve reporter attempts to interview the famously volatile actor, prompting an explosion of memory, humor, outrage, and juicy backstage lore. It is July 1977 and the actor is giving his final interview before leaving for the pre-Broadway tryout of "The Merchant" in Philadelphia. Mostel only played one performance as Shylock before his sudden death at the age of 62.
"ZERO HOUR" traces Mostel's early days growing up on the Lower East Side as the son of Orthodox Jewish immigrant parents, through his rise as a stand-up comedian, from the Borscht Belt to Manhattan's most exclusive supper clubs, and from the devastation of the blacklist to his greatest Broadway triumphs, most notably as Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof" and working through his love-hate relationship with
Jerome Robbins.
"ZERO HOUR" is produced Off-Broadway by
Kurt Peterson and
Edmund Gaynes in association with The Peccadillo Theater Company.
The playing schedule is Tuesday at 7 p.m., Wednesday at 2 p.m., Thursday & Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 & 8 p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets are available through Telecharge.com 212-239-6200.
For more information about "ZERO HOUR," visit
www.ZeroHourShow.com.
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