Laughing all the way to Broadway
After a hugely successful run off Broadway at Second Stage Theatre, ?The Little Dog Laughed? opened on Broadway on Nov. 13 at the Cort Theatre. It is a fresh, fun, hysterical, well-written comedy that is fast-paced, sharp and exhilarating. It satirizes the world of tabloid gossip, Hollywood and celebrities using a combination of intelligent dialogues, quirky, likeable characters and provocative, timely subject matter.The story focuses on type-A personality and lesbian Hollywood agent Julie White (the Broadway veteran has been seen on the small screen in ?Desperate Housewives? and ?Six Feet Under?), her very up-and-coming (but gay) It-boy movie star Tom Everett Scott (making his Broadway debut and currently starring in the new TNT series ?Saved?), a hot and sexy boy-toy Johnny Galecki (best known for his role as David on TV?s ?Roseanne?) and his girlfriend (well, maybe), Ari Graynor.
Out playwright Douglas Carter Beane sat down with PGN before opening night to talk about his deliciously profane and reality-based new work.
PGN: Tell us about the journey of this play. Was it a long process?Douglas Carter Beane: Not really. I wrote the play two and a half years ago and waited for a director who was directing a film. I did a reading of it with Cynthia Nixon at Second Stage and they loved it, but she was already committed to do ?Rabbit Hole.? When Julie came in to read it, her interpretation was very different. I was fascinated by what she was doing so I just started rewriting it for her. I am just delighted. Johnny Galecki was working with [director Scott] Ellis on a TV show and [Ellis] thought he would be great as Alex, and Tom has been in my plays before.
PGN: When did you know the show would move from off-Broadway to Broadway?DCB: As soon as the reviews came out. First from a commercial producer, then two other people, everyone kind of loved it. It?s the year of the closet.
PGN: Did you know this as you wrote the play?DCB: What I was really interested in was talking about what everyone assumed was going on, said was going on and the whisper gossip, but was not being spoken of at all in the press. What happened in the last couple months is that people are starting to talk about it.
PGN: So who is your audience?DCB: Now it is a mixed crowd of all ages. Previously at Second Stage after the reviews it was a very trendy audience with movie stars, fashionistas and models and all these kinds of people loving it and saying, ?Oh my god, I can?t believe he said that.? I definitely feel much better when the gay boys and girls are in the house. It just feels better. Definitely, it?s a warm knowing crackle that I truly love. When there are enough gay people in the audience, there?s a release and relief to it. Like people are saying, ?Ahh, finally ... there it is. That?s what we are complaining about!?
PGN: Which makes me ask you, how autobiographical is the play?DCB: Well, I think if you have ever been a single gay man, you surely know what it is to be a prostitute (laughing). You know what it feels like to get in that cab at 2 in the morning (laughing). Seriously, though, a lot of the conversations are things I heard in early court in relationships with guys. In addition, I too sold my rights to Universal for my play ?As Bees in Honey Drown,? which was a love story about two gay men. Down the road, it changed to a straight love story, so I stepped out of the project. I was asked by Variety and The Advocate why I left the project and, after I told them why, I was threatened by Universal with a lawsuit for damaging the property. So the character He Meaning Him is based on me and that experience.
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