Roundabout Announces Benefit Reunion Reading of TWENTIETH CENTURY

3/14/2019 11:30am


Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director/CEO) will welcome back Alec Baldwin, and  Anne Heche in a one-night-only reunion benefit reading of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s comedy TWENTIETH CENTURY, reuniting the original stars of Roundabout’s 2004 revival with director Walter Bobbie. The reading will take place on Mon April 29 at 7:30 PM at Studio 54 (254 West 54th St). Bankrupt, with his career on a downslide, egomaniacal Broadway director Oscar Jaffee (Baldwin) boards the Twentieth Century Limited and encounters his former discovery and ex-chorus girl Lily Garland (Heche), now a temperamental Hollywood star. He’ll do anything to get her back under contract and back in his bed, but his former protégé will have nothing to do with him. All of the action takes place on board the legendary Twentieth Century train from Chicago to New York City where Oscar has 20 hours to persuade Lily to return to Broadway in his upcoming show. If he fails, it’s the end of the line. Additional cast members and creative team will be announced soon. Tickets  are available at roundabouttheatre.org/20thcentury. Press contact: Polk & Co (917/261-3988)...