Sean Hayes to Star in Broadway Play About Oscar Levant

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“I understand how it feels to have efficiency anxiousness when enjoying piano — that was my main in faculty, I studied for 20 years, I assumed I used to be going to be a conductor and a live performance pianist, and that didn’t work out, and it didn’t work out for Oscar both,” he stated. “It labored out that he was second banana in a bunch of films, and I believe I’m perceived as that regardless that the dream is at all times to guide and never comply with.”

And there’s extra, Hayes stated

“I don’t have any drug dependancy, like he did, however the anxiousness — I’m riddled with it, and a few of the despair I’ve, in order that’s sort of attention-grabbing,” Hayes stated. “It’s only a dream come true for an actor to play a personality with so many alternative aspects and ranges to him — you would like each half that you simply ever performed in your life was as colourful.”

Wright received each a Tony and a Pulitzer in 2004 for his play “I Am My Personal Spouse,” and he has written the e-book for 4 Broadway musicals, together with “The Little Mermaid” and “Gray Gardens.” Wright additionally occurred to be the screenwriter for the unproduced Spielberg movie about Gershwin, who for a time was an in depth collaborator with Levant.

“The Chicago run was exhilarating — we discovered that Oscar’s humor isn’t dated, that it nonetheless feels topical, that it nonetheless has the facility to shock and delight, and that, as one of many first historic figures to overtly speak about his personal battles with psychological sickness, we discovered audiences actually responded to not solely his humor however his vulnerability, as properly,” Wright stated.

“One motive he has been so attention-grabbing to discover within the second is he provokes a number of questions in regards to the position of humor in a tradition — and, when a tradition is beneath siege, what position can humor play,” Wright stated. He added, “What are tenable topics for humor, and doesn’t humor have a sure responsibility to, at instances, rile and offend and invite change?”

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