Prolific playwright McNally: `I like to work

He is working on a play, "Unusual Acts of Devotion." He is also collaborating with the "Hairspray" songwriting team of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittmann on a musical version of the Leonardo diCaprio/Tom Hanks film "Catch Me If You Can," starring Nathan Lane and Tom Wopat....

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Published inNewhouse News Service
Main Author Cuthbert, David
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Newhouse News Service 21.03.2008
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Summary:He is working on a play, "Unusual Acts of Devotion." He is also collaborating with the "Hairspray" songwriting team of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittmann on a musical version of the Leonardo diCaprio/Tom Hanks film "Catch Me If You Can," starring Nathan Lane and Tom Wopat. "The Visit," a dark musical he collaborated on with John Kander and Fred Ebb, is finally going to reopen in April in Washington, D.C., starring Chita Rivera and George Hearn. The past two years have seen a Broadway revival of [Terrence McNally]'s comedy "The Ritz"; "Some Men," his chronicle of 80 years of gay life in America; "Dedication, or the Stuff of Dreams," a very theatrical comedy-drama starring [Marian Seldes] and Lane; and Chita Rivera's one-woman show "The Dancer's Life." He has won Tony Awards for Best Play for "Love! Valour! Compassion!" and "Master Class," as well as for his books for the musicals "Ragtime" and "The Kiss of the Spiderwoman." He has given us "Corpus Christi," "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune," "Lips Together, Teeth Apart," "The Lisbon Traviata" as well as the books for the musicals "The Full Monty," "A Man of No Importance" and "The Rink."