Christopher McDonald removes his fedora, slides into a booth at Sardi's, the Broadway bar, and stares across the street at the Broadhurst Theatre.
"Lucky Guy" is playing, Tom Hanks stars and McDonald co-stars.
McDonald talks about Hanks with tremendous admiration.
"He's a great guy, smart, funny and with a great attitude," McDonald tells Zap2it. "He's generous and funny as Hell. We laughed so much during the rehearsal period."
He's gone with Hanks to see Hanks' wife, Rita Wilson, perform at 54 Below, a Broadway nightclub, and they went to a basketball game. It's a far cry from when McDonald wrote him a letter years ago.
"Tom is the only person I ever sent a fan letter to," McDonald says.
Proving his nice guy reputation is well deserved, Hanks had indeed responded.
McDonald reminded him of this exchange when they started working together on "Lucky Guy" and he remembered.
McDonald gazes at Sardi's walls of fame,...
"Lucky Guy" is playing, Tom Hanks stars and McDonald co-stars.
McDonald talks about Hanks with tremendous admiration.
"He's a great guy, smart, funny and with a great attitude," McDonald tells Zap2it. "He's generous and funny as Hell. We laughed so much during the rehearsal period."
He's gone with Hanks to see Hanks' wife, Rita Wilson, perform at 54 Below, a Broadway nightclub, and they went to a basketball game. It's a far cry from when McDonald wrote him a letter years ago.
"Tom is the only person I ever sent a fan letter to," McDonald says.
Proving his nice guy reputation is well deserved, Hanks had indeed responded.
McDonald reminded him of this exchange when they started working together on "Lucky Guy" and he remembered.
McDonald gazes at Sardi's walls of fame,...
- 5/6/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Tom Hanks would make his Broadway debut only in a special play, and any play written by Nora Ephron is.
Those are just facts, and at its essence, this is a play about facts. Any piece about newspapers and a true newspaperman is about facts.
"Lucky Guy," which has already been extended to July 3, regularly causes pedestrian gridlock on 44th St. when the audience lets out at the Broadhurst Theatre and people queue up to see Hanks.
The play captures a great time in newspapers. It was such a great time and it is so well replicated on stage that it's hard to divorce that and see just the play. Even though this is Ephron's final play and Hanks' first Broadway appearance, it is not an excellent play. It is, though, incredible fun, particularly for those of us lucky enough to have lived some of it.
For newspaper reporters, it...
Those are just facts, and at its essence, this is a play about facts. Any piece about newspapers and a true newspaperman is about facts.
"Lucky Guy," which has already been extended to July 3, regularly causes pedestrian gridlock on 44th St. when the audience lets out at the Broadhurst Theatre and people queue up to see Hanks.
The play captures a great time in newspapers. It was such a great time and it is so well replicated on stage that it's hard to divorce that and see just the play. Even though this is Ephron's final play and Hanks' first Broadway appearance, it is not an excellent play. It is, though, incredible fun, particularly for those of us lucky enough to have lived some of it.
For newspaper reporters, it...
- 4/22/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
It’s hard to believe that Tom Hanks has never been on Broadway before. But the two-time Oscar winner will make his debut this spring in Lucky Guy, a new play by Nora Ephron, the late writer-director of two of his biggest box office hits (Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail). And this is no one-man vanity project, as you can see from this exclusive first photo from the production, which begins previews March 1 before an official opening April 1 under the direction of two-time Tony winner George C. Wolfe.
In the play, Hanks portays the late New York...
In the play, Hanks portays the late New York...
- 2/7/2013
- by Thom Geier
- EW.com - PopWatch
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